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More and more global brands and agencies are moving large budget spends to performance-based marketing. They are, like most marketers, attracted not only to

Forrester Research senior analyst Andy Hoar delivered a fascinating keynote at the Rakuten Linkshare Symposium last week.  His theme was the continuing evolution of e-commerce and the insights he brought will have a lot of consequences for the performance marketing sector. Some of his points restated things that anyone that has been paying attention already [...]

Press Release SmarterChaos.com LLC – Castle Rock, CO — 1/11/2013 — The Premier Affiliate Marketing and Online Performance Management Agency is pleased to announce its partnership with Credit.com.  SmarterChaos.com has been retained to help bolster the online performance marketing and affiliate channels for this “best in class” financial online portal.  This deal represents a strong [...]

Increasing sales volumes is a critical task for affiliate managers, but is a simple increase in commission the best way of achieving that goal? Traditionally, the

Performance marketing is not a mystery. It’s simply the culmination of decades of brand advertising experience. For the last century and more, the advertising

Europe’s Biggest Software Affiliate Network Comes To America Avangate is a network that ranked well in our 2012 BLUE BOOK survey and so deserves a closer look. Judging by what we have seen this year and the early survey results for 2013, that position seems likely to improve. We will see for sure when the [...]

One of the most common demands from brand managers and CMOs is the ability to access good quality traffic at scale. The problem is that all too often, it is hard to differentiate

  The day’s big news of Google’s precipitous drop in share price concealed the fact that Google’s average CPC is down 15% from a year ago. This decline in one of Google’s key performance metrics has potentially far more long-term consequences than a silly printer’s mistake. Yesterday’s premature release of Google’s disappointing quarterly earnings caused [...]

Affiliate marketing is in a constant state of flux and with the recent changes in the CPA space it is easy to see why many online marketers have adopted a cautious outlook. But there is hope for the future. A viable alternative to CPA has stepped into the limelight and that alternative centers around digital [...]