Interview With Gus Brito – Director of Network Development, Flexoffers.com Should advertisers or publishers care about whether their network partner(s) are investing in new technology or are innovating? [GB] Both aspects are equally important to ensure our industry continues to grow exponentially. I believe advertisers and publisher should definitely have an interest in … [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...]
New Personalization and Publisher Tools Drive Retail Growth
Interview with Adam Weiss, General Manager and SVP, Rakuten Affiliate Network Should advertisers or publishers care about whether their network partner(s) are investing in new technology or are innovating? Absolutely! The key to improving performance in affiliate marketing is by harnessing data to make better informed decisions. But, advertisers and publishers will … [Read more...]
ROAS: Why Performance Marketing Out-Performs Display
Interview with Erin Cigich, CEO of Clickbooth Should advertisers or publishers care about whether their network partner(s) are investing in new technology or are innovating? First and foremost advertisers and affiliates should be focused on the results their partners are driving. This is, after all, performance marketing. While Clickbooth has invested and continues to … [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...]
Clickbooth Acquires Affiliate Tracking Dashboard ThriveTracker
Press Release Clickbooth, worldwide #1 affiliate network, proprietary performance exchange, and a portfolio company of private equity firm Centre Lane Partners, has acquired Thrive by iPyxel Creations, a software that helps affiliates and performance marketers manage their business. The product will be rebranded to ThriveTracker. Clickbooth plans to run ThriveTracker as a … [Read more...]
Vergara Settles Social Media False Endorsement Lawsuit
Actress Sofia Vergara recently settled a lawsuit that she initiated against beauty company Venus Concept for the alleged unlawful use of her likeness in conjunction with promotional content appearing on television and social media. According to Vergara, the defendant created a false impression that she endorsed the brand. As alleged in the compliant, in 2014 Vergara posted a … [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...]
Clickbooth Ranked the #1 CPA Network by mThink BLUE BOOK
Press Release The Top 20 Rankings for 2017 are In SAN FRANCISCO, CA; March 28, 2017 – Clickbooth, recently recognized by mThink BLUE BOOK as the leading CPA network in the world, is winning the backing of advertisers for its innovation and technology, research has found. Clickbooth, a performance-based marketing leader, utilizes a one-of-a-kind performance marketing … [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...]