Coincidentally or not, but 3 of the 6 major US affiliate networks — and here I imply Commission Junction, LinkShare, buy.at, ShareASale, Google Affiliate Network and AvantLink — announced holiday deals and offers of their merchants on November 17, 2010. These are:
LinkShare affiliate network (in a blog post):
ShareASale affiliate network (internally through affiliate interface):
[Edit of 1:14 pm: ShareASale has just announced it in a blog post too]
and AvantLink affiliate network (in a blog post):
I haven’t seen Commission Junction announce anything like this. Neither have buy.at or Google Affiliate Network blogged about anything similar. If they have, and I’ve missed it, please correct me. I know that individual merchants have been sending out notifications of their deals via email, but I haven’t seen those deals bring aggregated anywhere in one place on the latter three networks.
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Edit of 11/20/2010: Commission Junction has just added a visible link to their Holiday Success Center (seen by every affiliate upon logging into their account now):
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Edit of 11/22/2010: buy.at has also just posted a blog entry with Black Friday & Cyber Monday deals available at its merchants:
Hi Geno,
CJ’s Holiday section is here: http://www.cj.com/resources/promotions/holiday-success-center.html
P.S. I really enjoy both your blog and your book. Keep up the good work!
Thanks,
– David Pricco
Affiliate Program Manager
RevUpNet
Thanks, David. I wasn’t aware of this one (comment for everyone else: it requires a logging into your affiliate account to view it).
PS: Thank you for the compliments, and glad to be of help.
Also, GAN has a holiday section for advertisers, but I think you’ll have to ask your agency rep to give you access to it: https://sites.google.com/a/google.com/ganholiday2010/
Can’t access that one, because its accessible for merchants only. I was looking for the ones available for affiliates anyway.
Hi Geno,
We received a few final deals from our advertisers over the weekend and will be posting them up on the buy.at blog and emailing them to our affiliate base today.
Stay tuned!
-Amy 🙂
Sounds good, Amy. Drop me an email once the blog post is up, and I’ll link to it from the above post of mine (adding you under CJ)