Affiliate Marketing Blog by Shawn Collins

Thanks for visiting the Affiliate Tip blog. Subscribe to my RSS feed or enter your e-mail on the top right to get updates by e-mail.Magnify.net has launched Magnify Publisher, a revolutionary blog application that enables bloggers to search for video, text, and images, using key words and tags.
Bloggers can also use Magnify Publisher to embed [...]

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Google product managers and marketers ran a workshop on video advertising and content monetization at the recent ad:tech in San Francisco.
The session covers the state of the video advertising market, a history of video ad serving, AdSense for video, and opportunities on YouTube.
Check out the GoogleBusiness channel on YouTube for more presentations and other [...]

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Video community site Magnify.net has announced some new “Pro” services and the option to resize their video player.
The “Pro” option with Magnify.net enables users to replace the current ads with their own ads.
There are some other options that can be adjusted for a fee, such as the “create a channel” option and Magnify.net branding. [...]

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Jim Kukral has launched a free series on how to create video on the Internet.
The videos shot with a Flip video camera and they are displayed in the new video player from SmugMug. It’s impressive how sharp the quality is with such an affordable camera and video host.
But as Jim shares, it comes down to [...]

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Q: I was wondering if you know how to embed an affiliate link into a multimedia Flash movie presentation and offer the movie as a marketing tool for affiliates?
A: I am not familiar with the technical process of doing embedding affiliate links to a video, but I have worked with a vendor that can [...]

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The WeShow video social network, which initially looks similar to Magnify.net to me, is touting the opportunity to make money with videos.
Like on Magnify.net, you can create a video community on WeShow.
The WeShow revenue share program uses runs Google AdSense ads and they will split 50% of the revenue generated with users.
I see some options [...]

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My Wedding Favors has launched a series of product videos for affiliates. The video widgets are powered by Qoof.
Each video features a product description voice-over and is clickable with an embedded affiliate link.
The initial launch includes 10 videos of top selling products from My Wedding Favors.
If you belong to the affiliate program for My [...]

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SmugMug has joined Flickr in being a photo hosting site that now hosts video, too.
According to their announcement to affiliates…
The Power and Pro accounts at SmugMug now allow customers to upload, store and share Unlimited Video clips!!
Power account allows for 2 1/5 min clips.
Pro account allows for up to 10 min clips.
Flickr videos are [...]

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I’ve been using Magnify.net to create video communities for over a year (example at affiliatetip.tv), and they’ve regularly released new features, but one thing stayed the same for a while.
The player - I love the company, but the player was a little clunky and heinous.
Well, I’m glad to report that the Magnify player has gotten [...]

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Big announcement on TechCrunch that Flickr is now hosting video. So far, I’m really digging it - easy to upload a number of videos at once and great quality (compared to YouTube and others).
Currently, videos can be as long as 90 seconds and up to 150MB in size. Only Flickr users with Pro accounts can [...]

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