ReveNews to Wordpress Transition... Big Changes Soon!

Looks like the big move to Wordpress will be happening this week......

ValueClick Settles with the FTC

ValueClick (parent company of Commission Junction, Hi-Speed Media, Webclients, etc) has announced a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission regarding past practices by Hi-Speed media: The FTC alleged that the Company utilized deceptive marketing practices that violated the CAN-SPAM Act and FTC Act. In an effort to resolve this matter,...

Nominate Your Favorite Affiliate Manager for Honorary Certification

Affiliate Classroom is taking nominations for honorary certifications for its AC Certified Management Professional award. AC Certified is the first industry-endorsed affiliate management training and certification. Our training curriculum has been reviewed by our Board of Advisors, so an AC Certified credential shows affiliates, merchants, and networks that your...

Clicks Are Even Worse Measurements Than We Previously Believed

MediaPost has a wrap-up of an interesting new study from data compiled by StarCom, Tacoda and comScore emphasizing the apparent fact that relying on click-throughs as a reliable indicator of performance is not so wise: Research by Starcom USA, behavioral targeting firm Tacoda, and comScore found that the 6% of...

The "Old Green Lady" Will Be Dancing Again Soon

I'm working with the great folks at ContentRobot to move ReveNews from MovableType4 over to Wordpress. I cannot tell you how excited I am that this is finally happening. The great news for me, for the ReveNews bloggers and (most importantly) for you, the ReveNews readers is that the move...

GeekCast Episode 2: Auto Approving

Lisa Picarille, Shawn Collins, Jim Kukral and Sam Harrelson discuss the week's news in affiliate marketing and online tech news. MP3 File Show Notes - Affiliate Summit Tips - Scoble Sells Out - Ethical Standards and Blogging - 45n5 and Affiliate Spam - WickedFire N00bery - John Chow - Izea,...

AffiliateClassroomLIVE Event

The well regarded educational-minded company AffiliateClassroom is holding a live event just before the upcoming Affiliate Summit. Learn from Actual Affiliate Managers... Take Your Affiliate Management Abilities to the Next Level Affiliate Manager Training is hard to find - but we're bringing it to you LIVE on Saturday, February...

Affiliate Marketing, Open Source, Amazon and Web Videos

Miro is an open source video podcast player that sits on your desktop. It is a fabulous program and one of my favorites as it works on Linux, Mac or Windows and has provided me with countless hours of video feed aggregation (works via bittorent) over the last few...

More Multimedia Here at ReveNews in 2008?

Current RN blogger and former publisher Jim Kukral is going on an all video format for 2008 on his blog. Shawn Collins constantly touts the power of video on AffiliateTip. Mark Wielgus of 45n5 is making a video every day on his blog. And I'm doing a 22 minute podcast...