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Announcing the 2010 Affiliate Industry Preview Series

Jan 10, 2010
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The beginning of a new year always signals an opportunity to create new growth and positive change. In preparation I sat down with Affiliate Summit, Commission Junction, LinkShare, Google Affiliate Network, and ShareASale to provide you with their insights to what’s ahead for the industry in 2010. The interviews focus on:

  • impact of the recession on the affiliate industry
  • impact of the anti-affiliate taxes (aka Amazon tax) in 2009
  • how the battle against anti-affiliate tax legislation is shaping up in 2010
  • lessons the affiliate industry has learned as it has evolved
  • what technology will be at the forefront in 2010
  • what their plans and goals where for current year

Don’t expect blood in the water. There won’t be any mudslinging. There will however, at the end of the series, be a “mystery” interview with a company that is about to launch a public beta this week with a very interesting new model.

The goal of these interviews will be to provide an insight into what each industry leader feels is important to the industry’s continued success and a preview of what they are focusing on in 2010.

Here are the links to the interviews:

Interview with Shawn Collins of Affiliate Summit

Interview with Kerri Pollard of Commission Junction

Interview with Jonathan Levine of LinkShare

Interview with Brian Littleton of ShareASale

Interview with Larry Adams of Google

“Mystery Guest”

Editor’s Note: We did attempt to include Buy.at in the series but were informed that their PR team was not interested in providing access. Charlie Calabrese runs a great team that has always been generous, giving, and approachable. It is too bad that internal restraints have prohibited them from taking part.

About Angel Djambazov

Born in Bulgaria, Angel Djambazov has spent his professional career in the fields of journalism and online marketing. In his journalistic career he worked as an editor on several newspapers and was the founding Editor-in-Chief of Wyoming Homes and Living Magazine. Later his career path led to online marketing where while working at OnlineShoes he earned the Affiliate Manager of the Year (2006) award at the Affiliate Summit, and In-house Manager of the Year (2006) award by ABestWeb.

For four years Angel served as OPM for Jones Soda for which he won his second Affiliate Manger of the Year (2009) award at Affiliate Summit.

Currently Angel serves as OPM for KEEN Footwear and MedicalRecords.com. His former clients include: Dell, Real Networks, Jones Soda, Intelius, Graphicly, Chrome Bags, Onlineshoes.com, Vitamin Angels, The Safecig, and Bag Borrow or Steal.

Angel is the Editor-in-Chief and Co-Publisher for ReveNews.com and ReveNews.org.

Angel lives north of Seattle, spending his free time reading up on obscure scientific references made by his wife MGX, while keeping up with a horde of cats and a library of books.

You can find Angel on Twitter @djambazov.

Filed under: Affiliate Marketing + Taxes