Jeff Pullen Starts Over

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 and marketing services industry. Sound familiar? Right...

Another Adwords Quality Score Update

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 and sites with low scores were rewarded with through-the-roof...

First Moments from CJU: CJ Announces Web Services

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 web services API. In a few words, the...

Recognizing 9/11

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 with Shareasale's temporary landing page. Today, in recognition of...

And the AffiliateFairPlay Fair Practice Award Goes to...

...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 the principles of fair trade and...

Google's Continued Affiliate Assault

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 with merchants and armor piercing coupons. They've...

Who's on First?

News came out this morning that Todd Crawford has joined Digital River as the VP of Sales and Business Development of oneNetwork, DR's affiliate program. (As reported by Jonathan Miller and Shawn Collins) Hello? non-compete? Earlier this year, Digital River acquired DirectResponse technologies. They're the technology behind many of the...

What's Behind CJ's Link Management Initiative?

Jeremy scooped me this morning on the story about CJ's newly announced link changes. Man, you got to get up pretty early to get a word in around here. I thought 5am was early. I could have done a sneaky back-date, but instead I've posted my own news of the...

Web Casino All-In on Affiliates

Silicon.com reports that 888.com, a large online casino, has been "blacklisted" by the International Gaming Affiliate Marketing Initiative (iGAMI) for unethical marketing techniques. The problem appears to be not with the direct actions of 888.com itself but with its affiliates who profit from revenue sharing agreements when they drive traffic...

With Spring Comes Change - Is Google Spring-Cleaning Out PPC Affiliates?

Change is in the air. Personally, we've had big changes going on this week with the arrival of what some have been referring to now as Jangro 2.0, a new son. Sorry, proud dad can't help it. Cigars all around. But while some of us are consumed by such things,...

Spyware hunting flashbacks

I retired a few years ago from bad-affiliate hunting, and now happily to leave this stuff to Paperghost, Wayne, and Ben. But this one hits close to home. In the latest of Eliot Spitzer's manoeuvres: Another pop-up-ad firm sued, an old name hits me like the recollection of a bad...

New Hosts for WebmasterRadioFM's "Affiliate Marketing Today"

WebmasterRadio.FM is relaunching their "Affiliate Marketing Today" radio show. The show previously aired for most of 2005 with ABestWeb's Haiko de Poel, Jr. at the microphone. The new show will be hosted by Commission Junction's Kim Dalzell and Brian Caldwell, and will surely have a different slant on Affiliate Marketing...

Seventh Sign: Molander to MC Affiliate Summit

Just announced, Jeff Molander will be the emcee for Affiliate Summit East this summer in Orlando. Following comments like this, I have to ask, is this one of the affiliate summit jokes come early? No? Maybe Shawn and Missy can get set up a cage like the one Jeff Healey...

You Don't Own Me! Who owns the affiliate relationship?

There has been an ongoing debate in affiliate marketing over whether publisher contact information should be made available to the affiliate managers. It's not exactly raging, but this topic has simmered over the years at the big affiliate providers. Budding networks that are popping up like weeds are grappling with...