Sun Bingo Take Note

I have been a bingo affiliate for around four years now and have inevitably run in to a few problems along the way.  This includes pushy affiliate managers, programme down time and just down right aweful programmes which I would never work with again. 

Now, I work with Premier affiliate network and I have to say they have made the sun bingo affiliate programme very easy to work with and profits have grown gradually every month for me, which is great! I would love to thank PAN for their hard work.  I am sure all the people promoting the sun through buy.at will feel the same.

Unfortuenetly this praise stands for nothing as the sun have made the decision to pull their affiliate programs temporarily.  This will annoy a lot of affiliates (including me) and people may think twice about promoting the sun in the future.  After all many affiliates will be out of pocket (even after compensation) and will lose all the rev share players they have built up forever.  In my opinion this is not a great way to treat your affiliates! 

We had to wait a long time for the sun affiliate platform in the first place and it only lasted about eight months.  I would love to know what other affiliates think about this farce. 

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Sun Bingo Affiliate Incentive Scheme

 I have just received word from premier affiliates network that The Sun Bingo have launched a new affiliate incentive to run from 18 th February (Today), Here is what they said:

Sun Bingo Affiliate Incentive Scheme - Join the UK’s most popular bingo affiliate programme! Sun Bingo No 1 Online Bingo portal

Cash Incentives from Sun BingoSun Bingo would like to offer each of our affiliates the chance to win some extra cash overthe next 6 weeks in our £1000 Grand Prize draw. Each new depositing player an affiliategenerates for Sun Bingo will automatically qualify that affiliate for one ticket into the grandprize draw. There is no limit to the number of tickets an affiliate can generate.

From the 18th Feb till 28th of March we will be running the first of our affiliate incentiveschemes.

·In our grand prize draw there are three prizes of £500, £300 & £200 up for grabs.

·It’s simple to understand and every affiliate has a chance to win.·For every depositing player you send to Sun Bingo you will receive an entry into the

·Grand Prize Draw, so the more players you send us, the more chance you have of bagging the cash.

·There are three prizes up for grabs, and there is no need to enter, as each affiliate will automatically be entered into the prize draw with each depositing player they generate for Sun Bingo.

T&C’s

·The prize draw runs from 00.01am on 18th Feb 2008 – 11.59pm on 28th March 2008.

·The prize draw will take place on 4th of April and winners will be notified on Monday 7th April.

·For every new depositing player, the affiliate will automatically be entered into the prizedraw.

·Valid entries are for players who have deposited money onto the Sun Bingo site.

·Tombola’s decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into.

If you have not signed up as an affiliate for the sun bingo yet and have a bingo or entertainment based site then start promoting them today -

Join the UK’s most popular bingo affiliate programme! Sun Bingo No 1 Online Bingo portal

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A4U Awards This Is One Event The US Writers Strike Cant Stop

The writers strike is still in full flow in the USA and fair play to them! Programs have stopped filming and there is no clear end to the strike. Even the recent Golden Globes awards were basically cancelled due to the strike. However one event that will not be cancelled is the annual A4U affiliate awards 2008!

This years event is set to be a big affair.  The ceremony will take place on the 5th June 2008 at the Sheraton Park Hotel. There are going to be awards for innovative Affiliate Marketing activity in the following vertical sectors:

Finance
Retail
Gaming
Travel and Leisure
Technology and Telecommunications

Edit: Matthew Wood has just informed me that there will be another award - The Best Affiliate Blog 2008!

Check out the official a4u awards website for further details. Also please let me know if you are going, meeting up would be good!

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AOL Buys Buy.at

AOL have announced that they have added the affiliate network Buy.at to their profile today. Buy.at have announced they are pleased with the deal as it will allow them to expand their infrastructure, services and technology.

“Advertising.com and buy.at will be able to expand their advertiser offerings, driving more revenue opportunities for affiliate publishers who specialise in both e-commerce websites and retail focused content. This will help to generate sales for advertisers and increased revenue for publishers. Publishers will be able to work with Advertising.com and buy.at across several product lines, earning revenue for inventory across their display, video, mobile, and affiliate channels”

Buy.at have offices all over the world and currently employ around 70 people. They run just over 200 affiliate programs on their network and have recently made improvements to the tools and reporting section of their website. I hope this development will lead to more tools like their great content engine that affiliates currently benefit from.

This is not the first buy out of an affiliate network within the past few months and I am sure it will not be the last. The affiliate industry is clearly growing rapidly and I predict more takeovers are around the corner!

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Affiliate Window Improve Content Widgets

Affiliate window have had content widgets for a while now and more and more affiliates are making use of them, in the past however some people have reported problems with the widgets and have also found them a little difficult to use or set up. This is the reason they have decided to give their content widget platform a complete overhaul. Here is a snippet from their site:

“Here in the Affiliate Window offices we have declared 2008 as the year of innovation. In deference to this we have overhauled our ContentWidget application to bring you improved functionality, making it even easier to profile products on websites and emails.”

So what’s new? Well for starters they now have content widgets that are branded with the companies name. This new function allows you to quickly display the most popular items from your chosen merchant (where supported). Here is an example:

They have also added themed widgets with products relating to your chosen niche. Current themes include toys, music, gadgets and valentines day.  The most clever aspect of the new content widget is that you can design your own to include things you want to promote, this in my opinion is a powerful marketing tool. I will certainly be using the content widgets more in 2008.

Affiliate window have promised to be innovative in 2008 and this is a great start, keep it up guys!

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