I’ve found something that makes me quite angry, well very angry to be honest, and that is blogger.com’s inadequate dealings and system for copyright infringement complaints.
For larger companies their sytem is probably fine, as the companies have their own system set up to deal with these types of things, but for the single web entrepreneur [...]
The race for the affiliate presidency 2008.
We all know who we back (or don’t) for the USA presidency 2008, but here’s a look at who’s backing who in the affiliate world.
Let’s start with the advertising networks, and firstly ShoppingAds (formerly known as AuctionAds).
ShoppingAds is a part of online solutions company MediaWhiz Holding Inc.. Which in [...]
The History of Affiliate Programs,
The question of where the first affiliate program was started is an interesting tale of deceit and murder, well maybe not the latter but you get my drift.
Amazon’s Jeff Bezos claimed for many years that Amazon was the creator of the first Affiliate Program in 1996, but this is just a [...]
The history of Affiliate Networks is a messy and complicated business, with claims of this, lies of the other flying around all over the place.
So let’s begin.
The first real affiliate network was LinkShare, still going strong today, who created the concept and launched their affiliate network in 1996. Stephen Messer can take some of the [...]
The History of Affiliate Programs Directories,
As history research goes, this is an easy one.
It’s well documented that the now Internet.com (JupiterWeb) owned Refer-it was the first Affiliate program search engine that was launched in 1997. A few months later Allan Gardyne set up an affiliate directory AssociatePrograms, that’s still alive and going strong today.
Another important [...]
