Youtube to become super-affiliate

Found this newteevee blog post under more items on techmeme. You tube, according to CEO Chad Hurley, is all set to use the affiliate marketing route as an additional monetization opportunity besides display ads.

Hurley said at an event in Palo alto that they are already integrating affiliate links to Amazon and iTunes within Music video and TV show videos

“We’re integrating links to iTunes and Amazon for DVDs, CDs, and digital downloads,” Hurley said. “A lot of our content does drive awareness for music or for TV shows or movies, and a lot of our partners are really just excited to make that connection between the two — going from promotional, getting people to tune into a TV show or buy a movie ticket — to that direct response in terms of clicking to buy something.”

More on NewTeeVee >

Users of Last.fm may have noticed that the web 2.0 radio is already doing something similar when you log in to the website to listen to music or watch videos, they’ve got affiliate links to amazon where users can buy the music.

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Bye Bye BFAST

Commission Junction’s BFAST affiliate platform is all set to close on the 15th this month according to a notice on CJ’s website.

BFAST, once part of Befree, a pioneering affiliate network, was sold to ValueClick in 2002 which later also purchased Commission Junction in 2003 and decided to integrate both the platforms under the CJ brand. One wonders what took VLCK so long to finally shut down the BFAST platform.

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Amazon launches new mp3 preview widget

Amazon.com recently introduced a cool way to promote it’s DRM free iTunes competitor, the MP3 clips widget. Bloggers who are amazon associates can now post 30 second previews of music they are talking about (or best sellers on the amazon mp3 store or all music from a genre or songs they recently purchased). This adds to amazon’s already extensive suite of widget type ads offered to associates.

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GoldenCAN kills the “powered by goldencan” link

Affiliates who use GoldenCAN to enable dynamically updated coupons and products from merchant programs will no longer need to display a “powered by goldencan” link on pages with goldencan’s code. Good Move!

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Peformics to split.

Google trying to quiet all criticism of being the owner of a search marketing company, will sell the search business of performics, and more importantly integrate it’s affiliate marketing business into existing google products (adsense?).

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Coming soon — Video on shareasale

This is very exciting news. Everyone’s favorite affiliate network, ShareASale is hard at work on developing what they call a “v-commerce” solution - a video player/widget built for the sole purpose of affiliate marketing.

Carolyn Tang of SAS announced this to members of the shareasale group in facebook and is currently inviting ideas and suggestions in an ongoing facebook discussion here.

“we’re gettin’ with the times and exploring v-commerce. Nothing like bringing the magic of television online! Our tech team is hard at work developing a player with embedded tracking for affiliates to use on their sites.” ~ Carolyn Tang

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Big News: Ebay Leaving CJ, to launch the ebay partner network

Wow, this is huge. Online super-auctioneer, e-Bay always had an affiliate program, and it was always through a “trusted third party” At first, they were on a microsoft-owned affiliate network (remember clicktrade?) and later migrated to CJ sometime in the early 2000s.

Anyway, Today is an important day in affiliate marketing history. CJ has lost one of it’s biggest affiliate programs. e-Bay is going in-house. They announced this in an email to affiliates today that all the worlds ebays (including ebay US - Not including some of ebay’s non-auction properties such as stubhub, prostores, etc.) will need to be promoted via ebay’s own system beginning the first of April 2008.

“The new platform will go live on April 1st, 2008 PST, at which point eBay will no longer be running its affiliate program through Commission Junction. Beginning April 1st, affiliates should register with eBay Partner Network and migrate their links from CJ to the new platform. “

More details at the announcement page on ebay

Update: See also: AffiliateTip.com - Apparently, this was probably in the works since september 2006. See link on the affiliatetip post to “project rover”.

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Calacanis might actually try to monetize Mahalo with affiliate links (w/disclosure, of course) very soon. Cool, huh?

Jangro and Sam have the story.

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Radical Buy ~ Social Shopping + Affiliate marketing on facebook

Was browsing facebook and came across an interesting and simple little social shopping + affiliate marketing app that seems to be quite popular. Radicalbuy lets users buy and sell stuff on facebook, charges sellers a cut on sale.

The cool part about this is, that members who don’t have anything to sell can simply add stuff on their facebook profiles from other sellers and get a commission on every sale.

Utilizing the millions of members on Facebook, you can list an item and have it visible to all Facebook users instantly. After you list an item, others can post your listing on their Facebook page to earn commission! For example, if you sell a watch for $100.00, you may offer anyone 10% commission to sell it for you. If someone sells your watch for you, they get $10.00. The amount of commission you offer is entirely up to you.

They’ve also got widgets and stuff for embedding into blogs, but it’s the facebook potential of this thing that’s pretty huge. I’ll sign up and will probably write a review later this week. In the meantime, it’s a facebook application definitely worth a look whether you are an e-retailer or affiliate marketer or if you simply want to add cool products to your facebook profile, and make some cash in the process.

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Affiliate summit pinnacle awards - Congratulations to Haiko - Affiliate Marketing Advocate, Connie - Affiliate of the year , Sam - Best Blogger, Brian - Affiliate Marketing Legend, Melissa Salas - Affiliate Manager of the Year and CSN Stores - Exceptional Merchant.

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