Unsubstantiated Rumors from Affiliate Summit East by Chris Trayhorn, Publisher of mThink Blue Book, August 18, 2010 These are just rumors, you understand. We do not vouch for them in any way, unless someone writes to us to confirm that they’re true. Let us know what you have heard! The recent raid on Central Coast Nutraceuticals Inc. is just the beginning of the Oprah backlash. One big network that changed hands recently survived the Acai cleanout by the skin of its teeth, changed strategy and then got screwed by tooth-whitening products; The reason so many networks are changing hands/names/personnel is that is gives them plausible deniability in case the FTC and the FBI come calling about fraud; ASE was seething with black-hats this year; These rumors may or may not be connected…. Filed under: Revenue About the Author Chris Trayhorn, Publisher of mThink Blue Book Chris Trayhorn is the Chairman of the Performance Marketing Industry Blue Ribbon Panel and the CEO of mThink.com, a leading online and content marketing agency. He has founded four successful marketing companies in London and San Francisco in the last 15 years, and is currently the founder and publisher of Revenue+Performance magazine, the magazine of the performance marketing industry since 2002.