The Best Cost-Per-Sale Affiliate Networks In 2022 Best CPS / Affiliate Network Overall Joint-winners (first time ever!) Awin Group Rakuten Affiliate Network We congratulate Rakuten Affiliate Network and Awin Group for the first ever Joint-#1 ranking in the Cost-Per-Sale Networks category. How it happened: Awin Group received terrific support from advertisers and … [Read more...]
FTC Rules With Civil Monetary Penalties for Deceptive Earnings Claims and Targeted Marketing May Be Forthcoming
On February 10, 2022 the Federal Trade Commission announced that it intends to vote whether to issue an Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on “deceptive earnings claims for business ventures, gig or other work opportunities, or educational, coaching or training offerings.” The vote is set to take place on February 17, 2022 at an open meeting. A webcast will be available on … [Read more...]
Top 4 Ways To Make Your Call Campaigns More Successful
Inbound call campaigns connect advertisers with high-intent, interested consumers the moment they’re ready to engage, resulting in 100% contact rates. But, for a call campaign to be successful, proper preparation is key. Careful planning is needed on both the advertiser and publisher sides for a call campaign to perform well. The following four tips can help you set up inbound … [Read more...]
Perform[cb]’s New Mobile App For Partners Is A Game Changer
Perform[cb]’s new mobile app for publishers and partners, PerformLEAP Partners, has drawn attention since its recent introduction. It provides ubiquitous access to performance data, in combination with campaign optimization, new offer opportunities and messaging, all presented in a fast, easy-to-use form factor. We spent two weeks putting it through its … [Read more...]
CEO Interview: Dynu In Media
Introducing Dynu In Media Pioneering affiliate marketing excellence in Vietnam North American and European networks have traditionally dominated affiliate marketing, however networks in other regions are now challenging more aggressively. First Israel, Russia and the Ukraine, and now Brazil, India and Vietnam: performance marketing is truly becoming a global … [Read more...]
Perform[cb] acquired by Beringer Capital – Erin Cigich Gives Us The Low-Down
Perform[cb] Blue Book's #1 ranked CPA network, announced yesterday that it has been acquired by Beringer Capital, a leading North American private equity fund specializing in the media, marketing services, and technology sectors. CEO Erin Cigich tells us what it means for their advertisers and publisher partners, and what lies ahead for her powerhouse of a … [Read more...]
11 Ways to Optimize Your Affiliate Website for Conversions
You’ve created a website with valuable, sticky content and you still don’t have as many conversions as you would like? We can offer you 11 ways to help you get closer to your target. Your goal as an affiliate is to make as much money as possible by selling the products you are promoting on your affiliate website. In order to achieve your goal, you have to drive traffic and … [Read more...]
Advertiser and Network Responsibilities for What Others Say in Social Media
As previously blogged about here, the FTC actively continues its assault on paid-for rankings, ratings and review websites. The FTC’s Endorsement Guides provide that if there is a “material connection” between an endorser and an advertiser – in other words, a connection that might affect the weight or credibility that consumers give the endorsement – that connection should … [Read more...]
What Advertisers & Publishers Should Be Doing Now
We are now six weeks into the coronavirus crisis. The dust is settling a little and it is beginning to be possible to see the contours of what lies ahead for the economy and the affiliate marketing industry. Let's review what we know and what looks likely, and what it means for your business. What Is Working? In talking to people around the industry I'm impressed with how … [Read more...]
Performance Marketing Provides Stability & Measurable Returns In A Crisis
When discussing how the ongoing pandemic could influence performance marketing, I think it’s important to first recognize the potential complexity of that influence. By that I mean consumers, affiliates, advertisers, and networks are all likely to be impacted differently and to varying degrees. The way they’re individually affected also inherently impacts their relationship … [Read more...]
The affiliate marketers blueprint to futureproof your business
The affiliate channel has always had a chameleon like ability to adapt to its environment. However, as consumer and regulatory concerns about privacy and data escalate, brands ramp up their demands for transparency and tech giants clampdown on what can be tracked online. As such, affiliate marketing is faced with an influx of new challenges. In 2020, what should brands be … [Read more...]
Ten Tips on How to BE A CONTENT CREATOR in Affiliate Marketing
Content creators are taking the lead. After 20 years of affiliate revenue being dominated by the coupon and loyalty space, power is shifting to content creators. A content creator is any person or company that creates content to inform and attract an audience and shares that content through a variety of distribution channels, usually on their own website, blog, … [Read more...]
Federal Auto Renewal Legislation Proposed
While FTC attorneys continue to focus upon recurring payment issues and aggressively enforce ROSCA compliance, a number of states have recently enacted or supplemental legislation on automatic renewal contracts (e.g., California, North Dakota, Vermont and Washington D.C.). Federal lawmakers may now be getting into the oversight act. Rep. Mark Takano (D-Calif.) recently … [Read more...]
Federal Court Holds TCPA Plaintiff Did Not Adequately Allege ATDS
In Bader v. Navient Solutions, LLC (N.D. Ill. June 14, 2019), the North District of Illinois dismissed a Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) plaintiff’s claims on the basis that the complaint did not possesses sufficient facts to plausibly allege the defendant had used an automated telephone dialing system (ATDS), consistent with post-ACA International v. Federal … [Read more...]
How Deceptive User Interface Design Increases E-Commerce Sales
A fascinating Princeton study found hundreds of examples of deceptive "dark patterns" on e-commerce websites. Dark patterns are user interface features that, often deceptively, steer customers into making unintended decisions. The report has a great run-down of the various tricks that marketers are employing together with a list of various software vendors that enable … [Read more...]