At the recent IAB Affiliate Council meeting we debated how merchants can gain increased transparency over what affiliates are doing, and at the same time sell themselves to merchants/agencies/networks to reduce the chance of being rejected from their campaign.
Therefore I thought it would be useful to write a quick post on what we look for [...]
There seems to be a common assumption in the affiliate world that the cookie period should be 30 days. I am concerned that not enough thought goes into determining this. What rationale is used by merchants/networks when setting cookie periods?
Sector differences
Different vertical sectors have different buying cycles and so this should influence the length of [...]