Do you know what GDPR is? No? Then pay attention. If you market products to Europe, it may cost you a fine of 4% of your global annual revenues. The EU’s landmark General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is coming at online marketing companies like a freight train. It is already agreed and comes into effect in April 2018. More to the point, it absolutely applies to American … [Read more...]
Nominations For Best Network Innovation Now Open
The BLUE BOOK countdown is on. This year’s survey is still a couple of months away and already we are hard at work with initial research and nominations. Help us out, please! We have a new category: Best Network Innovation. It is intended to help surface new and exciting ideas and technologies coming out of both CPA and CPS networks. A new network platform, a video network, or … [Read more...]
BuzzFeed’s Affiliate Network & Google’s Destruction Of Publisher Revenues
Last week saw the release of the Interactive Advertising Bureau’s year-end report for 2016. The good news is that digital ad revenue in the U.S. grew by more than 20% last year to a record $72.5 billion. The bad news is that virtually all of that growth went to just two companies: Google and Facebook. What has come to be known by industry analysts as “The Duopoly” vacuumed … [Read more...]
Why Performance Can Win Against Google
I met with people from Google yesterday. Most interesting: how thoroughly freaked out they are by the advertiser backlash against financing extremist content on YouTube. In combination with the rolling avalanche of awareness of rampant fraud in the AdTech industry, this represents perhaps the biggest opportunity for performance marketing to penetrate major brands that we have … [Read more...]
Congress Voting Today On Relaxing FCC Rules, Threatening Affiliate Data
A Senate vote today threatens to devalue all publisher 1st party data by allowing broadband companies to capture and sell full online records of their customers without permission. This would mean that financial info, passwords, transaction data and even social security numbers used on publisher sites could be captured and monetized by companies like Verizon, Comcast, AT&T … [Read more...]
The Hidden Story Behind Clickbooth’s Blue Book Win
The contest for Best CPA Network this year was the most competitive ever. With several networks investing big money into new technology, the migrations of support from one network to another by advertisers and publishers were more significant than we have previously seen in the seven year history of the Blue Book. No network saw a greater increase in year-on-year support … [Read more...]
2017 Investments, Technology and Fraud
Interview with Adam Weiss, General Manager and SVP for Rakuten Affiliate Network An increasing number of networks have major new-investor money behind them, funding more sophisticated technology and greater scale. Are networks inevitably going to get bigger, and will small networks be driven out? The Affiliate Marketing channel has proven to be a very cost effective solution, … [Read more...]
Blue Book Top 20 Announced!
The BLUE BOOK results are in. 20,000+ industry professionals that participated in our survey, 150,000 data points analyzed and months of research have finally resulted in the new 2017 rankings. We give you the best cost-per-sale and cost-per-acquisition networks in the world, as chosen by the advertisers and publishers of the international performance marketing … [Read more...]
5 Mobile Marketing Tips that Work!
Mobile internet usage overtook desktop traffic in 2014 when an estimated 1.8 million people started using smartphones and tablets as their primary device for online browsing, shopping, and social interaction. A handful of online studies report that nearly 5 billion people own a mobile device and spends an average of 5 hours per day using it. That’s more than 20% of each day … [Read more...]
Clickbooth’s Performance Exchange Review – Part 2
The Performance Exchange offers improved publisher performance, increased scalability for smaller advertisers and better, more granular targeting. Most importantly, Clickbooth’s Link-ID technology allows payouts to be varied by traffic source and so to be aligned with customer-lifetime-value. This is a critical step in performance marketing’s move into the big brand … [Read more...]