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What Will Health Insurance Open Enrollment Look Like This Year?

November 10, 2020 by Adam Sthay, DMS Senior Vice President of Pay Per Call

Each year, insurance brands and publishers must prepare for open enrollment periods, which began November 1. The pandemic and election could be factors in how people make their insurance decisions, and insurance marketers and publishers should be ready to deploy strategies that meet consumer needs and address new concerns. Differentiation Will Be Key As Insurance Shoppers … [Read more...]

Blue Book Top 20 Networks for 2020 Announced!

January 21, 2020 by Chris Trayhorn, Publisher of mThink Blue Book

Congratulations to our number 1 ranked networks for 2020! Best CPS/Affiliate Network: Rakuten Affiliate Network Best CPA Network Overall: Clickbooth Best CPA Network for Advertisers: MaxBounty Best CPA Network for Publishers: Clickbooth The BLUE BOOK results are in. 20,000+ industry professionals that participated in our survey, 150,000 data points analyzed and months of … [Read more...]

4 Publishers Talk Success, Networks & The Importance Of Trust

November 20, 2019 by Chris Trayhorn, Publisher of mThink Blue Book

Making money as a publisher or affiliate isn't easy. Writing, tracking, coding, media buying and so on - it can get really complicated. Yet when you speak to successful affiliates, time and again the same themes emerge: that building a good website or buying the right traffic only goes so far. Other, less tangible factors are often what truly make the difference between success … [Read more...]

Why Choice Matters in Affiliate Marketing

November 20, 2019 by Matt Lindner, Annie Barry, and Jessica Damiani, Rakuten Advertising

Every day, you’re faced with choices. In fact, researchers say the average adult makes around 35,000 choices per day on everything from breakfast to bedtime. Some of these choices have higher stakes than others. When it comes to your marketing budget and your revenue generating efforts, it’s important to have data and insights at your disposal to make the right marketing … [Read more...]

Augmenting your Tech Stack thru Affiliate

November 10, 2019 by Adam Weiss

Augmenting your Tech Stack thru Affiliate Non traditional publishers are enabling  Brands & Retailers to test new types of conversion & optimization tools thru the affiliate channel.   Publishers in today’s affiliate marketing ecosystem are using technology in new ways to drive higher conversion rates & user engagement.  Savvy advertisers can leverage the … [Read more...]

Can Affiliate Marketing Networks Build Transparency Through Events?

April 4, 2019 by mThink

Transparency

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...]

Do Advertisers Need A Real Agency?

August 30, 2017 by Chris Trayhorn, Publisher of mThink Blue Book

Imagine you are a new advertiser using affiliate marketing to acquire customers. The affiliate network you’re using is doing great: recruiting new publishers, building ad creatives, providing you with tracking and attribution metrics. All seems right with the world. Do you need an agency? I raise the question following a conversation I had last week with a rising advertiser. … [Read more...]

Four Publisher Must-Haves when Working with an Affiliate Network

August 29, 2017 by Rakuten Advertising

Affiliate marketing continues to offer brands and publishers countless opportunities to reach new customers and increase sales, providing a gateway for creating and nurturing long-term business partnerships. For publishers, having the backing of a strong network will make it easier to partner with top brands, create relevant content, and earn money, with a dedicated network to … [Read more...]

New Personalization and Publisher Tools Drive Retail Growth

May 9, 2017 by Chris Trayhorn, Publisher of mThink Blue Book

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...]

BuzzFeed’s Affiliate Network & Google’s Destruction Of Publisher Revenues

May 3, 2017 by Chris Trayhorn, Publisher of mThink Blue Book

Buzzfeed's Affiliate Network

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...]

What Do Publishers Want?

February 6, 2017 by Chris Trayhorn, Publisher of mThink Blue Book

Performance marketing is on a roll. Big data is finally giving tech-forward networks a real competitive advantage. Major advertisers are increasing their performance-based marketing spend. But what about publishers? What do they want and need? It has always been the case that 90% of affiliates who try their hand at performance marketing are unable to make a go of it. It’s … [Read more...]

Leading the Way in Influencer Marketing

October 4, 2016 by Rakuten Advertising

Influencer marketing has noticeably changed the affiliate marketing industry over the past few years. Advertisers look to influencers to provide native, authentic content to readers making the relationship between advertisers and influencers one of the most valuable in the industry. As the popularity of visual content grows, influencers are leveraging social channels and new … [Read more...]

Inside View Of A Nutraceuticals Network

September 19, 2016 by Chris Trayhorn, Publisher of mThink Blue Book

Imagine a new advertiser coming to you to launch a new product. What's the process between contract and launch? This is a matter that we take very seriously.  As we are a health focused network, we get pitched on things all the time and we cannot possibly say yes to everything that comes our way.  We have to be picky.  So, when a new advertiser approaches us to promote their … [Read more...]

What does professionalism mean to you when it comes to ad networks?

September 24, 2015 by Chris Trayhorn, Publisher of mThink Blue Book

Does it mean that they deliver the performance that they promise, pay on time against reliable tracking, and provide good service? I suspect that’s close to the definition that most people would agree upon. But if that’s the definition, are Google and Facebook “professional”? And what about your favorite CPA or CPS network? How do they match up? This week, as the research … [Read more...]

Businesses Exist to Make Order Out of Chaos.

July 16, 2015 by Ronen Hamatian

Tom Goodwin, SVP of Havas Media, published a fascinating article on TechCruch a few months ago that helps put that concept in perspective in today’s world. “Uber, the world’s largest taxi company, owns no vehicles,” he said. “Facebook, the world’s most popular media owner, creates no content. Alibaba, the most valuable retailer, has no inventory. And Airbnb, the world’s largest … [Read more...]

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