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Commission Junction Adware Class Settlement
July 7, 2008Kellie over at Affiliate Fair Play has published the documents of a proposed settlement agreement in the class action lawsuit against Commission Junction for their failure to sufficiently monitor and prevent Publisher Code of Conduct violations by affiliates using “malicious software” to hijack commissions.
The plaintiffs in this lawsuit are two current and former members [...]
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July 8, 2008
Google Affiliate Network: Commence Assimilation
The rebranding of the Performics Connect Commerce Platform has begun. These guys don’t waste any time:
I’ll take this opportunity to call out my biggest annoyance with Performics. Anyone else get this warning on logging in? I appreciate the gesture guys, but we’re a commonly supressed domain? Maybe we’re on a blacklist somewhere. [...]
July 8, 2008
The Hat Calling the Kettle Black
In the incredible irony department:
When it comes to these guys, I generally take a live and let live approach. What comes around goes around. But this just struck me as funny.
The red boxes are mine. Linkshare MUST be stealing commissions. That’s the only explanation.
The advertisement on this page was just icing [...]
July 7, 2008
Commission Junction Adware Class Settlement
Kellie over at Affiliate Fair Play has published the documents of a proposed settlement agreement in the class action lawsuit against Commission Junction for their failure to sufficiently monitor and prevent Publisher Code of Conduct violations by affiliates using “malicious software” to hijack commissions.
The plaintiffs in this lawsuit are two current and former members [...]
July 3, 2008
New Version of Disqus API Plugin
Daniel Ha announced via twitter this evening that a new version of their API plugin is available.
I quickly dropped it into the dev version of my blog and the only noticeable changes were support for video comments via seesmic (cool) and the look and feel is now the same as their JS version of the [...]
June 30, 2008
My Big Fat Affiliate Paycheck
FINALLY, I got this in the mail today…
YES! I made this money all in one month on the Interwebs. And you can too!
OK, I know what you’re thinking. You’re thinking how much did he SPEND to make all this money?
Zero! I spent zero dollars to earn this.
I know, I know, I’m already sounding [...]
June 30, 2008
Google Affiliate Network
One word…
wow.
We are pleased to introduce Google Affiliate Network . Effective Monday, June 30, 2008, DoubleClick Performics Affiliate will operate as Google Affiliate Network. The integration with Google’s brand is a reflection of efforts to quickly assimilate our business and teams, as well as reinforce Google’s commitment to the Affiliate channel. Together with our [...]
June 28, 2008
The Amazon Tax. Are You Next?
You’ve probably heard by now of the “Amazon Tax” imposed by the State of New York.
Most states in the U.S. requires online retailers to collect sales tax if they have a physical presence in the state that the customer is from. Therefore, if an online retailer has a physical store in New York, or [...]
June 26, 2008
Whoa, Jangro’s Gone Green (and Blue)
I figured it was about time for a change around here, so I had a new template done up.
I wanted to keep the action stream on the homepage, but I got a lot of complaints that it took up way too much space. So now it takes up a little tiny spot on the [...]
June 26, 2008
Back from Linkshare Symposium
I spent a few days this week in NYC at my first Linkshare Symposium. Being an old Be Free guy, I have to say it was a little strange but that was really only in my mind. Linkshare is not the company it used to be with most of the leadership team gone. [...]
June 19, 2008
Affiliate Marketing Needs to Reinvent Itself
My old friend Larry Joseloff, formerly of eNews (merchant) and Be Free (affiliate provider) and now VP of Content for Shop.org speaks on the state of affiliate marketing, where it is going, and how it “needs to reinvent itself.”
Larry isn’t exactly in the thick of affiliate stuff any more, but even so he can pinpoint [...]







