If you’ve been in the industry for awhile, you know that Affiliate Summit is the biggest show for Affiliate Marketers. Makes sense right? But the other major Digital Marketing show, Ad-Tech, is looking to reach out to Affiliates in a new way this time around. For the first time ever, Ad-Tech will be teaming up [...]

Microsoft Advertising has recently decided to stop handing trademark disputes for keywords. This means that you can now bid on trademark keywords across Bing and Yahoo without fear of reprisal. You still cannot use trademarked terms within your ad copy itself, but that is in line with Google’s policy and the rest of the search [...]

You know we like to party at GetAds, and we are looking forward to the Affiliate Marketing Awards. Come and join us in San Francisco on April 12th (during Ad-Tech) for what should be a great night at the W Hotel. The Affiliate Marketing Awards are the idea of Murray Newlands who has been an [...]

There has been much talk lately about the “Do Not Track” initiative. It is essentially an opt-out mechanism for online advertising tracking cookies. Although there is no legislation yet that requires this to be put into place, it looks like companies such as Google, Mozilla, and Microsoft are taking steps to make it happen fairly [...]

In the affiliate marketing world, there are 4 big shows a year. 2 Affiliate Summits, and 2 Ad-Techs. But what about the smaller shows? Are they worth it? We’d like to find out your opinion on the subject with an impromptu poll. Vote below for which show you are planning on going to or are [...]

Instead of the usual wrap-up post that I write for every show (which would have been hard to write since I didn’t go to the show), I decided to get the perspective of our two first-timers that we sent instead. Beau Hadwiger and Andrea Jensen were kind enough to sit down with me and share [...]