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31 Mar, 2009

Affiliates – what do merchants want to know?

Posted by: admin In: Affiliate

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 [...]

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31 Mar, 2009

That’s the way the cookie crumbles

Posted by: admin In: Affiliate| Uncategorized

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 [...]

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  • Clarke: Well spotted, you should be giving tips to our tech press here in the UK. Always good to see some facts behind a story, more of the time it's whatever
  • Magnus Nilsson: I still haven't been able to see the ads live in the UK. Will be interesting to see any case studies of impact over the next few months for compet
  • Sam: Was wanting to re-tweet but button does not seem to be working - better check it out! Unless its just not working for me of course.

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