AOL Inc. has sold its affiliate marketing business, Buy.at, for an undisclosed price to Digital Window Ltd., which runs AffiliateWindow and ShopWindow.  Digitial Window claims that the purchase of Buy.at will make them the largest “performance-based marketing” group in the…

Recently the Virginia Senate has proposed Bill 660. Effectively, the same advertising tax that was passed and caused significant damage to the small entrepreneurial internet marketing businesses in those states and cost small business jobs in the process.

States have started…

There has been a lot of rumor and speculation lately about exactly how and when Google would start becoming an affiliate and taking their sponsored search results and turn them into CPA placements for their Google Affiliate Network partners. Some…

Top Performance Marketing Companies in the 2009 Inc 5000 List.

According to Mark Penn’s article in the Wall St. Journal, there are over 20 million bloggers out there, and according to a recent Technorati poll, 2% of them are making a living through blogging.  That’s more than 400,000 people!  The…

Could Affiliate commissions per phone call generated be a reality soon? RingRevenue recently completed a $3.5 Million round of series A financing and has partnered with Commission Junction to offer this service to CJ Advertisers.

“Pay-per-call marketing represents an enormous opportunity because…

There has been a long running debate in the performance marketing industry about what permissions a company should offer their search partners. Should we allow our search partners to link directly from their Google PPC ads to our site through…

Last summer, Commission Junction settled a Malware class action lawsuit for $1M.  According to the terms of the settlement (see www.cjsettlement.com) after the lawyers take their share (typically 30% I think), the remainder of the class action fund was to be…

Imagine a site where you could define a project, application, or task you wanted to have completed and a global workforce of talent would bid on doing the project on an hourly or fixed cost basis.  You then get to review…

I was talking with several top affiliates at Affiliate Summit in Las Vegas last night about the role of the networks and where the networks should be focusing their attention and development dollars.

My colleague, Tony Pantano, did a great job…