The formation of an industry requires the development of a group identity. Often that development is neglected because group members are focused on growing their business. Over the last year the affiliate industry has been experiencing growing pains in the…

There are merchant programs that have been with certain affiliate networks for so long you think of them almost as growing old together. Today one of those relationships ended. After seven years Overstock.com and LinkShare have split.

Not since Barnes and…

Seth Godin is a smart man. Partially out of necessity he has resorted to posting in sound bites: little well packaged morsels of pop culture references that he can spin out quickly and readers can digest easily.

His blog post “Which comes first, the product or the marketing?” is a prime example of this. Godin bounces from Captain Crunch, through a YouTube clip of Mad Men, before stumbling into the Toyota Prius and onto Jones Soda. The sound bites he delivers chime like the bumpers in a pinball machine.

I always say going on a long drive with someone tells you a lot about them. When you walk 60 miles with someone it reveals even more. Last year I was shanghaied into walking such a distance with Missy Ward,…

I think of Monty Python when I think of the old guard of the newspaper industry. In particular newspaper upper management brings up images of Python’s “Upper Class Twit of the Year” skit. With the print media industry facing extinction…

Here at ReveNews we like to try and avoid inundating you with “top” list stories. The fact that the Consumer Electronics Show and Affiliate Summit West are occurring consecutively in Las Vegas this month makes it a little difficult. Affiliate…

Ok we all know that no one really goes to the International Consumer Electronics Show for the sessions. With over 2,700 exhibitors eager to showcase their marquee product line for this year in hopes of creating the kind of buzz…

You know those little icons on your desktop that designate the presence of a active program or the same icons in a browser that designate the presence of an active file? The Mac or the PC you have been using…

In tough times companies are forced to make difficult decisions. Sometimes they make wrong ones. Best Buy made an epically dunderheaded one this week when it announced via email that affiliate commissions for two of its best selling product lines…

I am not a prude by any means. Janet Jackson’s Super Bowl “malfunction” did not shock me. However, the porn photos masquerading as profile pictures for porn spammers that Yahoo allows into MyBlogLog I do find irritating.

The thing is I…