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Scamville Controversy: Links Review

Chris Trayhorn, Publisher of mThink Blue Book •November 12, 2009 •1 min read
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    Home / Affiliate Marketing / Scamville Controversy: Links Review

    • Time takes an interest with a post called, “Are You Getting Scammed By Facebook Games?”

    • Newsweek takes a look as well: “Is Facebook A Paradise For Scammers?”
    • Facebook uses its developers blog to put games developers on warning: Our policies are clear. If you’re an ad network and don’t comply with them, you are doing a disservice to your customers, and you should expect your business opportunities on Facebook to cease.
    • Mark Pincus, Zynga CEO, throws Tatto Media under the bus and says he agrees with Michael Arrington: “He raises good points about ‘scammy’ advertisers and the bad user experience they create. I agree with him and others that some of these offers misrepresent and hurt our industry.”
    • Mark Pincus caught on tape saying he had done horrible things.
    Filed under: Affiliate Marketing, Revenue Magazine Archive

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    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.

       

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