Media Breakaway, LLC has announced that there has been a final ruling in proceedings between MySpace and Media Breakaway, which dates back to January 2007.
According to Media breakaway, the final award in favor of MySpace was 95% less than the amount demanded, as the Arbitrator determined “MySpace’s demands are so disproportionate to proven actual [...]

Source:Media Breakaway and MySpace Ruling via Arbitrator

The Performance Marketing Alliance is a new professional association for affiliate marketers that has just kicked off operations.
The group is currently being sponsored by Affiliate Classroom, and spearheaded by Rebecca Madigan of Affiliate Classroom, who was previously at Commission Junction, where she was director of product management and solutions marketing manager.
There are three industry veterans [...]

Source:New Professional Association for Affiliate Marketing

Yanik Silver, who has created a number of successful online products, as well as the popular Underground Online Seminar, has a new article at Entrepreneur.com (5 Perfect ‘Spare-Time’ Online Businesses), and strongly disagree with his comment about affiliate marketing.
“This (affiliate marketing) may possibly be the absolute laziest way to make money because it doesn’t require [...]

Source:Affiliate Marketing: The Laziest Way to Make Money

I just got back from running some errands and got an idea while filling up at the gas pump.
As the dollars ticked up at a rate of more than $4 per gallon, I thought his gas crisis could make for a good affiliate site.
After all, if people have to spend a gallon or three to [...]

Source:Affiliate Idea to Capitalize on the Gas Crisis

Commission Junction has announced that they power the majority of affiliate programs for companies in the Internet Retailer 500 with affiliate programs.
According to the release from CJ, 53 percent of retailers listed in “The 2008 Internet Retailer Top 500 Guide” with third-party affiliate marketing partners have selected Commission Junction.
Commission Junction power the affiliate programs for [...]

Source:Commission Junction Dominates Internet Retailer 500

We’ve got a special Affiliate Summit deal that’s only good for 24 hours - the day of June 11, 2008 EDT.
Everybody that is currently registered for Affiliate Summit 2008 East, taking place August 10-12 in Boston, is welcome to share the following coupon code with their friends and colleagues who are not yet registered:
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This code [...]

Source:Pay It Forward: Free Affiliate Summit Passes

The June 11, 2008 episode of Affiliate Thing featured guest co-host Scott Jangro in the studio with Lisa Picarille. Shawn was off in Parts Unknown.
The show featured a very special discussion of chinposing, as well as the upcoming LinkShare Symposium and Golden Links Awards, and the launch of FeedFront magazine.
Scott and Lisa also [...]

Source:Affiliate Thing Podcast - June 11, 2008

Download audio file (geekcast22.mp3)
Lisa Picarille, Jim Kukral, Shawn Collins and Sam Harrelson sorted out a whole mess of geek stuff and randomness for episode 22 of the weekly GeekCast.
The show kicked off with talk of the iPhone 2.0, and the virtues like 3G speed, as well as the negatives, such as the keyboard, [...]

Source:GeekCast 22: iPhone 2.0 and It’s Still Useless

The second issue of FeedFront Magazine, the Official Magazine of Affiliate Summit, is coming together, and we have a very time sensitive opportunity for affiliate marketers to get their words in print.
Issue 2 of FeedFront Magazine will double as the conference program at Affiliate Summit 2008 East, and will be sent to subscribers in the [...]

Source:Want to Write an Article for FeedFront Magazine?

Lisa Picarille posted on her Revenue Magazine blog that Revenue Magazine is a finalist for the Performance Marketing’s Most Vocal Advocate award at the LinkShare Golden Link Awards.
Revenue is up against Scott Jangro and Stephanie Agresta for that award.
The 2008 LinkShare Golden Link Awards are taking place on Monday, June 23 in New York City.
Other [...]

Source:LinkShare Golden Link Awards 2008