Performance Marketing Awards: the winners
On Tuesday night, the sixth annual Performance Marketing Awards was held in London, attended by more than 800 people and judged by Econsultancy Research Director Linus Gregoriadis, among others.
The event was previously known as the a4u Awards, but the name was changed to broaden the remit of the awards, allowing entrants from the various sub-channels of performance marketing, including social, mobile, email, search and display, not just just the affiliate sector.
Mobile sites and affiliate tracking: the stats
With consumer behaviour and shopping habits continually evolving, coupled with the increase in smartphone penetration, more and more consumers are accessing the internet through mobile devices.
This is something that we have been monitoring closely at Affiliate Window for the past 18 months. Back in December 2010 we saw traffic through mobile devices account for 2.4% of all network traffic and 1.7% of all sales.
Fast forward to March 2012 and these figures have grown considerably with 10% of traffic and 6.6% of sales coming through mobile devices.
Making the affiliate Long Tail wag : part two
In part one we looked at how and why the engagement of an affiliate programme’s ‘Long Tail’ is pertinent to advertisers today.
This second part will look at specific techniques and ‘quick wins’ which have proven successful for other advertisers.
Making the affiliate Long Tail wag : part one
This is the first of two articles about how to engage and optimise the Long Tail of your affiliate programme.
Whilst the term has its origins in statistical sciences as early as 1946, it was popularised 60 years later with the publication of Chris Anderson’s book of the same name.
So how does this apply to affiliate marketing?
The Importance of cookie hierarchies
Not all affiliate activity is the same.
Any single affiliate programme is as likely to include behavioural re-targeting, site abandonment-triggered emails or downloadable software as it is to number ‘traditional’ affiliate stalwarts such as blogs and incentive-based sites.
This is a good thing. Affiliate marketing should be as focused on targeting as any other online marketing channel and it is a sign of the health of the industry that new methods can find a place in an environment where the focus has always been on customer acquisition.
Using Google image search for affiliate recruitment
A good affiliate marketing campaign is one that has a fair spread of affiliate types. It is not all desirable to have too few driving too high a percentage of the earnings.
What if you were to lose one of those key affiliates?
How reliable is cookie-based tracking?
The issue of the reliability of cookie-based tracking is perhaps one of the most important issues for affiliates and always has been.
Affiliate marketing operates on the basic assumption that the sales affiliates refer to advertisers are tracked and reported correctly.
Q&A: David Fieldhouse on mobile affiliate marketing
Launched earlier this year, Linking Mobile aims to move the affiliate marketing model onto mobile.
I've been speaking to co-founder David Fieldhouse about the company and its plans, as well as the challenges of tracking affiliate sales via mobile.
Finding the value of your top 10 affiliates
Advertisers will have a set of key metrics which they measure the success of their campaign against. Typical metrics include but are not exclusive to: new vs. existing customer %, average basket values and lifetime value of customers.
These metrics will vary from advertiser to advertiser to be in line with their core strategic objectives.
Affiliate categorisation is outdated
As the affiliate channel continues to become more sophisticated, it is becoming increasingly difficult to categorise affiliates based on their promotional type.
With boundaries becoming blurred, affiliates should be assessed on their individual merits rather than grouped by their traditional category.
