Arguably the biggest purchase impacting our space last year occurred in June when AOL announced its intent to purchase Advertising.com for north of $400 million. Two months prior, in March, another substantial acquisition took place. This one saw Ask Jeev

Let me start by saying that the overwhelming majority of affiliates are nice, honest, hard-working people. However, there are the occasional shysters out there which stand ready to take advantage of unsuspecting affiliate managers who are not monitoring t

Have you ever been lured into clicking on a banner that is flashing, twitching, or shaking? These ads are made using Rich Media and although they get your attention, there can be a downside to using them with an in-house affiliate program.

A break from Direct marketing talk, The column may be about politics, or sex, religion, lost youth, lost love, or lost lives, but it will be something that relates to you. It will be something that relates to us all.

Were I to have access to more time, energy, and/or a statistician, I could point out the instances in my articles dedicated to the incentive promotion space. Without those, I can only speculate, but I feel confident in suggesting that they are numerous. I

Market Segmentation is defined as targeting a specific group or audience and is vital for a healthy ROI. Notice how we see more “Christian” offers on the Net these days? From Christian mortgage to Christian debt consolidation to Christ

As anticipated, this year has brought no shortage of investment activity into our space. Just last week, for example CGI Holding Corp – not to be confused with the famous dot com bomb CMGI – d/b/a Think Partnership (AMEX: THX) announced its intent to acqu

There is something fun about watching two titans clash. Think of Godzilla battling King Kong. It’s fun especially, and probably only, assuming the battle doesn’t lead to one’s own demise. Instead of Godzilla and King Kong, the two titans

As the economy continues to build muscle and the job market eases, employee performance recognition incentive programs will be ever more valuable to companies looking to hang on to top performers and improve the bottom line. The industry has plenty to …

A handful of U.S. retailers, Canadian packaged goods marketers and at least one film studio in Canada are mulling the use of MoxyCard, a CD-ROM-based gift card set to launch this spring. MoxyCard adds CD content to gift cards The credit card-sized …