A little over a year ago, I wrote a post on my personal blog, “Why I hate Twitter.”

The post was done somewhat in the heat of the moment, but I also had some constructive criticism for the service.

Since then, I’ve…

Commission Junction has announced the dates for this year’s CJU client event, September 16-18 2008. It’s nice to see that it remains in Santa Barbara this year. They have been busting at the seams at the Fess Parker Doubletree Resort,…

Word is out this evening that Kerri Pollard has been named the new General Manager at Commission Junction.

Kerri has been at CJ (and Be Free) pretty much forever. She’s always worked hard on behalf of affiliates and recently wowed us…

Reported this morning on MorningStar: AOL LLC Makes $900 Million Bid For TradeDoubler AB

STOCKHOLM -(Dow Jones)- AOL, a majority-owned subsidiary of Time Warner Inc. ( TWX), Monday said a cash tender offer, through an indirectly wholly owned subsidiary, to acquire…

After losing his seat at the right hand of Jim Zarley, Jeff Pullen has started his own company, QFour Digital (”under construction”).

QFour is headquartered in Santa Barbara, California and will focus on acquiring and operating technology-based businesses in the online advertising…

It wouldn’t be Christmas without a nice gift for affiliate marketers from our friend Google.

This year, in a few events that have sent many affiliate marketers reeling, Google has instituted Quality Score ratings to their Adwords advertisers’ landing pages. Pages…

Greetings from sunny Santa Barbara California, here in the kick-off session for CJU 2006.

The introduction from Tom Vadnais brings the typical inspiring presentation about “Relationships”. The most significant part from the presentation however is an announcement of the launch of…

The 9/11 anniversary is upon us and reflecting on the events of five years ago brings a renewed sobriety to me, especially in light of our having a new baby this year.

Going through my daily routine, I was hit hard…

…Brian Littleton of ShareASale.

AffiliateFairPlay awarded it’s first Fair Practices Award this week in Chicago. According to the website,

The AFP Fair Practice Award is a unique award within Affiliate Marketing recognizing a company or individual who has consistently engaged in activities which embody…

Far beneath the roar of the cannons hammering on affiliate marketers in the form of Landing Page Quality updates, our ahem, friends, at Google have launched a flank attack.

Shmuly noted that the Google Checkout page has been updated, and it’s loaded up…