ASOS CEO Nick Robertson was quoted in this week’s New Media Age as saying the following:
“Next year we’ll reintroduce affiliate marketing but as it should be, as opposed to affiliates as they were” said Nick Robertson, ASOS CEO. “(There’ll be) no silly commissions being paid to grubby little people in grubby studios growing income at [...]

Paul Coggins of Zanox has written a piece for Netimperative on the virtues of global affiliate networks which got me thinking about which parts of the network I would actually want grown to a global scale.
Technology - yes
Account management - probably not
A few big moves have happened in the last 12 months in this market.� [...]

IBG, better known as the owner of the Affiliate Future network has acquired Net Free Stuff.

NFS is one of the longest standing freebie sites in the UK. Kieron Donoghue site has an excellent interview with the site’s previous owner John Lamerton.
It entrenches a rather unusual position for IBG who have interests as merchants (sweatband.co.uk), a [...]

It’s a busy month for affiliate marketing PR firms.
Revolution followed hot on the heels of the affiliate census with a 3 page article on the growth of the channel. It seems that the image of affiliate marketing is finally breaking out of the ‘geek-in-a-bedroom’ image and the bigger affiliates are starting to market themselves more [...]

Yesterday saw the results of the affiliate census carried out by e-consultancy and Jess Luthi of Affiliate Program Advice.
The biggest thing that struck me is the huge influx in new affiliates over the last 2 years who have made almost nothing from their efforts. As an affiliate since 1999 This seems a little odd, but [...]