The News Review:
- Million Dollar Poker Club is Offering Affiliates 100% Commission
- EBay Competitor Launches New Storefronts and Affiliate Plans
- CyberSource Announces Third Quarter 2008 Financial Results
- Does Yahoo! Even Care Anymore?
- Programmers Looking Abroad For Growth
- GameAccount.com Affiliate Program Unveils New Commission Structure
Million Dollar Poker Club is Offering Affiliates 100% Commission
PR Web (press release), WA
Other Million Dollar Poker Club affiliates will also have a chance to earn 100% commissions. The Million Dollar Poker Club will enter all other affiliates into a draw and pick 50 affiliates. These 50 affiliates will be awarded 100% commission on their Million Dollar Poker Club net revenue for the period of October 1 2008 to April 1st 2009. "Obviously, we don't have unlimited advertising budgets like the big guys out there," said Shaun O'Neill, Director of Affiliate Marketing of Million Dollar Poker Club. "So we've taken a lesson from the art of war and will use the advertising and search engine clout of the big affiliate companies by offering the best of them an unprecedented 100% commission. "Another promotion that affiliates will be able to benefit from focuses on attracting new players. In addition to offering players generous sign-up and reload bonuses, the Million Dollar Poker Club features a growing mentoring program for poker players.
EBay Competitor Launches New Storefronts and Affiliate Plans
ECommerce-Guide, United States
In regard to the buying experience, shoppers can add stores to their favorites list, and sellers are able to keep shoppers within their specific stores, as they won’t see other similar merchandise from other Storefronts or the catalog until they are ready to leave that specific Wigix store. Wigix Affiliate ProgramIn addition to the launch of its new Storefronts service, Wigix is also launching an Affiliate Program for those looking to generate revenue without selling products on the site. Here, Web site and blog publishers can earn affiliate revenue by referring new members to the Wigix site or by recommending products from Wigix customers on their Web spaces. Sellers can also take advantage of the Affiliate Program by referring buyers to their own stores. Every item listed on Wigix has an embeddable widget tied to it that makes linking to products related to your site content easy. With the launch of the affiliate program, Wigix now offers three revenue generating methods:
Category Expert: Submit and manage unique items from top to bottom in an entire category and get compensated by receiving 1 percent of that category’s revenue (both advertising and transaction fees). Homesteaders: Submit a new item to a category and earn 5 percent of that item’s revenues (both advertising and transaction fees).
CyberSource Announces Third Quarter 2008 Financial Results
Earthtimes (press release), UK
Penney, and PacificSunwear of California. — Channel Partners: CyberSource’s ISO and Affiliate Reseller Channelproductivity remained strong during the quarter, with a record number ofgross merchant setups from the channel. In the third quarter, CyberSourcesigned up over 60 new ISOs and over 350 new Affiliate Resellers. eCommercecontinues to provide ISOs with opportunities to grow and expand theirbusiness beyond the slower growth card present market. — Small Business VAS: CyberSource’s small business team has beenaggressively marketing and effectively cross-selling value-added services,improving the revenue per merchant that is generated from this segment. Customer penetration of these value-added services has been increasing.
Related: Peoples Bancorp Inc. Announces Third Quarter Earnings
Does Yahoo! Even Care Anymore?
Motley Fool
It’s just not where you expect to find it. After all, Yahoo! has done nothing but hammer its leadership position in display advertising — over Google’s bread-and-butter search stronghold — but display advertising is up just 3% over the past year. Yahoo! beats its chest about how its ad-serving technologies make it an attractive draw to newspaper consortiums and third-party publishers, yet affiliate revenue actually fell by 10% during the quarter. Where Yahoo! is growing well is in search. Yahoo! came through with a 17% year-over-year gain in search revenue on its owned and operated sites. It’s a line item that finally topped display revenue on Yahoo!’s own sites. Maybe it’s time for Yahoo! to embrace its role as a poor man’s Google instead of trying to distance itself with its string of display advertising-related acquisitions.
Programmers Looking Abroad For Growth
Multichannel News, NY
75 billion in domestic revenue — it is growing at a faster pace (31% in the quarter versus 8% for domestic revenue). Second-quarter international advertising revenue grew 10% at Viacom, while domestic ad revenue grew a paltry 1% in the period. The international market also appears to be a strong and growing source of affiliate-fee revenue. Worldwide, affiliate revenue was up 12% in the second quarter, to $650 million. Domestic affiliate fees grew by 11% in the period, while international affiliate fees were up 13% in that time frame. Despite the softness in the global economy, Joyce believes non-U.
GameAccount.com Affiliate Program Unveils New Commission Structure
PR Web (press release), WA
The new commission structure offers affiliates the potential to earn a 50% rev share until the end of November. Affiliates will be able to earn these commissions by promoting any of their suite products which include games like Multiplayer Blackjack, Backgammon, Domino Duel, and Gin Rummy. Affiliates can earn 40% on $0-10,000 of revenue they refer, 45% on $10,001-25,000 of revenue, and 50% on all revenues they generate above $25,000. com will also be offering affiliates CPA commissions on an ongoing basis. For referring 1-10 players, affiliates will earn $50. They will also earn $60 for referring 11-20 players, and $70 for referring 21-30 players.