An Interview With Henry Whitfield, ClickDealer ClickDealer has been one of our Top 20 CPA networks for several years now, with a successful track record in driving ROI for advertisers and popular support from publishers. We recently chatted with Henry Whitfield, their head of international business development, to find out how the pandemic has changed things and what the … [Read more...]
How ClickDealer Grew To Be The Best CPA Network In Europe – An Interview with Taras Kiseliuk
ClickDealer is ranked as the best CPA network based in Europe in the Blue Book's first European Top 20 table. We chatted with CEO Taras Kiseliuk this week to find out what he thinks they are doing right and where they are going from here. Blue Book: Congratulations on being rated the best CPA network in Europe. Why do you think so many advertisers and publishers chose … [Read more...]
Why Fewer, Better Customers Is The Way To Thrive – An Interview With Olivier Bourque, CrakRevenue
CrakRevenue is one of the most interesting CPA networks in the industry. They have often been innovators, forging a different path, whether it has been with their custom marketing platform for affiliates, or their focus on being the best network for offers targeted at men. One of the visionaries in the company is their VP of Business Development & Marketing, Olivier … [Read more...]
The Best CPA Networks In Europe
Due to demand from our users world-wide, we are excited to launch our first ranking table of the best CPA networks in Europe. The top three, as chosen by our reader panel and research: ClickDealer AdCombo lemonads As always, our rankings are not just a list of which networks are the biggest. We do our best to measure the enthusiasm of advertisers and publishers … [Read more...]
CAKE’s Parent Company Buys TUNE
CAKE's parent company, Constellation Software, is acquiring TUNE. The announcement yesterday means that two of the biggest network and partner tracking platforms will be under the same ownership. This is a continuation of Constellation's strategy of rolling up SaaS companies under their Perseus Operating Group, with specific focus on performance marketing. In a blog post, … [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 Role of Artificial Intelligence in Performance Marketing’s Future
Present in nearly every industry, artificial intelligence (AI) has begun to transform the landscape of performance marketing. As one of the most influential inventions of the 21st century, AI has had a resounding impact on today’s digital world, and online marketing companies are increasingly seeing AI take over campaign optimizations, split testing, and more. While it’s an … [Read more...]
An Advertiser Tracking Platform For Professionals
MaxBounty’s new advertiser tracking platform is fast, scalable and ready for the enterprise MaxBounty, a leading CPA network in performance marketing, recently launched their first advertiser tracking platform. This represents a major technology investment driven by a desire to provide class-leading client services and maintain industry leadership in the face of increased … [Read more...]
Affiliate Marketing’s Biggest Transparency Issues and How Admitad Addresses Them for Their Advertisers
By Elizaveta Ventsel, head of the Advertisers’ International Group in the EU and US at Admitad The predicted future of advertising going digital has already arrived. With the number of internet users surpassing the 4 billion mark in 2018, advertisers have firmly set their sights on the new age of marketing to the masses. While this trend has presented its fair share of … [Read more...]
Can Affiliate Marketing Networks Build Transparency Through Events?
By Chris Trayhorn, CEO and Founder, mThink/Blue Book Most affiliate marketing networks are pretty cautious about connecting their advertisers directly with publishers. The risk of them setting up a direct business relationship - cutting the network out of the deal - is real. This kind of disintermediation is a major risk to the revenue streams of networks and … [Read more...]
The Lead-Gen Pay-Per-Call Opportunity Is Now
The new BLUE BOOK Pay-Per-Call network rankings have generated a big response. It is clear that many advertisers are still to adopt pay-per-call and that it can be an intimidating area for a lot of publishers. The CEO of our #1 network Aragon Advertising is Todd Stearn. We sat down with him this week to get the low-down on how to get started with pay-per-call, what kind of … [Read more...]
Welcome to This Year’s BLUE BOOK Top 20 Network Survey.
Welcome to This Year’s BLUE BOOK Top 20 Network Survey. We are pleased to announce that the global BLUE BOOK network survey for our 2018 rankings is now open. This is the eighth year of the survey and your views are more important than ever.The BLUE BOOK Top 20 tables rank the best performance marketing networks worldwide. They are based on real opinions sourced from active … [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...]
Mobile Monetization Machine
Many people know CPAlead for having invented Content Locking and a host of different, innovative, solutions for internet marketers. That’s probably how the company has earned their reputation as both an internet marketing platform and a technology development firm. But there’s a secret that only few knew, until now that is. What’s the big secret? Chief Executive Officer Peter … [Read more...]
Blue Ribbon Panel: The Problem Of Attribution
There is a big divide in the performance marketing industry between the CPA networks and those that focus on cost-per-sale as a business model. CPA networks are in a daily dog fight, with a couple of dozen long-standing, stable networks competing with hundreds of pop-up generics with not much experience or capital. On the cost-per-sale side, life is different. CPS networks … [Read more...]