Alex Choe Launches Cost Per Engagement

Alex Choe Launches Cost Per Engagement

Alex Choe, the CEO of GuppyGames talks briefly with Jennifer Selleck about their new product, Appdango that they will be launching soon. Appdango.com is a reward based app discovery network and provides advertisers with cost effective user acquisitions with guaranteed user retention. If you are looking for more information about the product email Fax@guppygames.com Sponsored … Read more

Ricky Ahuja and Chris Kautz Beat Meat

The famous meat eaters of Affiliate Venture Group talk a bit about their business at Affiliate Summit. Affiliate Venture Group is boutique affiliate network run by one of the most accessible guys in the industry, Ricky Ahuja and his partner Chris Kautz. Located in downtown Richmond, VA with offices in Ashburn, VA – It is … Read more

John Chow Floats Your Affiliate Boat

John Chow talks about his speech at Affiliate Summit East in Philly, and most importantly about his new product Commission Bootcamp, which will be coming out next month.  This product is mainly made for newbies and intermediate affiliates, and will show you where you need to start in affiliate marketing. More importantly, John Chow shares … Read more

Evan Weber Does Affiliates Like No Other

Evan Weber speaks to Jennifer Selleck of PMI about what he does, and his well-received speech at Affiliate Summit. Evan talks a bit about how to build relationships with affiliates and publishers, what affiliate managers need to do to keep them.  Evan is the CEO of Experience Advertising, a top level company that provides online … Read more

Latest Facebook Update Rewards Quality Content

Facebook has been working hard to improve the content which shows up in the average user’s News Feed.  Like the search engines, Facebook is trying to get around the marketers who are simply trying to game the system, and reward the content which users actually find useful.  In a recent announcement, Facebook said that over … Read more

Skimlinks announces iTunes Migration Help

SAN FRANCISCO Aug 22, 2013 /PRNewswire/ – Skimlinks today announced that it will automatically rewrite old iTunes affiliate links to their new affiliate format, so that publishers won’t be affected as iTunes takes their affiliate program inhouse. This feature will be built into the preexisting Skimlinks’ javascript and APIs so current publishers do not need … Read more

FTC Goes After Virus Advertising

Jesta Digital, a mobile company which according to their website delivers content, music, games and apps to its customers recently settled a lawsuit brought on by the FTC for $1.2 million as well as issuing refunds to a large number of customers.  What did Jesta do which warranted the lawsuit?  According to the FTC complaint … Read more

Yahoo Beats Google for First Time?

Bragging rights for the company which gets the most US Internet traffic have been ripped away from Google for the first time since 20011.  According to the monthly ComScore report for July, 2013, Yahoo! was able to take the top spot with 196,564,000 visits compared to Google’s 192,251,000.  The report combines the traffic of all … Read more

Groupon Launches Affiliate Network

Groupon is jumping globally into the affiliate marketing world with the launch of the Groupon Partner Network (GPN), which is their proprietary local e-commerce affiliate marketing platform.  While Groupon has been taking advantage of the affiliate marketing model sine 2009, it has always been through third party platforms including Zanox for their European business, and … Read more

If You Get Hit By A Bus Principle

A company manager once told me “I’m too busy to train people. They just leave anyway — it’s much easier to just do things myself than to have to take the time to train and mentor them.” Whoa! Huh? You’re a company executive, manager, leader and you can’t/won’t find the time to train or mentor … Read more

Legal Issues for HTTP?

A recently launched campaign by the Open Rights Group requesting that a new HTTP 400 range status code be created is starting to gain some significant traction.  The 400 range codes are commonly used to give users information about why a particular page can’t be displayed, and include problems like 400: Bad Request, 403 Forbidden … Read more

Google to UK: Screw Your Laws!

Google was forced to pay $22.5 Million to settle a case against the US FTC concerning the cookie-privacy settings, which were circumvented in the Safari browser.  This was a complicated and well documented case which cost Google a significant amount of time and money, as well as required them to change how they used cookies … Read more

Matt Cutts: Widget Links should be NoFollow’ed

The head of Google’s search engine spam department, Matt Cutts, recently posted a video to which he responded to a question asking about links embedded within widgets.  This is a common practice for individuals or companies that create widgets to help website owners.  They add in a link back to their page so individuals who … Read more