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Newly Funded VigLink Promises Boost for Affiliates

VigLink is getting set to launch new technology that promises to help web publishers better monetize hyperlinks that connect to affiliate marketers. The company has just closed on seed funding from First Round Capital, Google Ventures and other sources - thus positioning the start-up to deliver a generally available version of its curr  [...]

MSFT's 'Gaze' Eyes Snap.com Territory

Aspiring to compete with technologies like Snap, which lets users preview content by mousing over hyperlinks, Microsoft is preparing an ad-infused offering called Gaze. Snap delivers "Snap Shots" of web destinations or content, using pop-ups that appear when users hover over hyperlinked text. Users can identify Snap-optimized links by the small Snap favicon perched   [...]

Demandbase Raises $8M, Launches Streaming Lead-Gen App

Startup firm Demandbase garnered $8 million in venture funding in a round led by Sigma Partners. Altos Ventures and Adobe Systems, which led a round in 1Q07 for $3.3 million, also participated. Demandbase will use the funding to expand its offerings, which seek to carve a contemporary niche for lead generation practices. Two new services will also be announced today: Demandbase Stream, a downloadable web app that enables marketers t  [...]

eBay Woos Power Sellers, Punishes the Baddies

EBay is introducing price changes and tighter sales standards designed to keep quality sellers, boost customer service, and revive growth. Listing fees across the board will be reduced to drive sellers to list a higher number of items and use pictures more often, reports Reuters. In the US, the change will come February 20 for both auction and fixed-price ite  [...]

KickApps Opens Back-End, Adopts OpenSocial and Facebook

KickApps, a provider of social tools for websites, is opening its back-end to developers and adopting Facebook and OpenSocial standards. In effect, any app that works on Facebook or on Google's OpenSocial platform will also work on a KickApps-enabled website, and vice-versa. The news followed the release of the KickApps API Developer Kit, which allows customers to build their own apps, necessitating collaboration with the Kic  [...]

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Evo Connects Green Businesses with Jaded Buyers

Kermit is right. It's not easy being green. For spiritual Kermits, Evo has arrived -- to help green-leaning consumers make shopping decisions by making eco-friendly alternatives easily accessible. The site covers everything from food and clothes, to housewares and solar panels. The site's business model depends primarily on affil  [...]

New AdWords Tool Consolidates Multiple Campaign Budgets

Manage Defined Spend (MDS), a new AdWords tool, enables advertisers to build and apply budgets under a single service agreement. AdWords already permits advertisers to build and manage separate ad budgets under multiple service agreements. MDS instead enables users to build out "child" accounts under a single "parent" agreement. The new option will appear under My Client Center. A button to the right marked "Modify Budget" gives clients access to the MDS. Child account shells  [...]

Cars.com, Hispanic Portal Terra Enter Major Deal

Cars.com has developed a relationship with Hispanic Web portal Terra to offer its 2 million new and used car listings on Terra's automotive channel,   [...]

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Visual Search Engine Like.com Launched

Visual computing firm Riya on Wednesday launched Like.com, a visual search engine that allows consumers to search for products by appearance rather than just text, via a collection of celebrity fashion photos. Riya's "Likeness Search" makes it easier to find hard-to-describe items online, the company said. When a user clicks on a photo of an item, Like.com will compare that item's shape, color and texture to millions o  [...]

Google Testing Cost-per-Action Ads

Google is testing cost-per-action ads according to an email that Google sent out yesterday (Wednesday) to some AdSense publishers, reports Bloomberg News, citing an initial report in the SeekingAlpha blog by David Jackson. "You get paid whenever a site visitor clicks on the ad on your   [...]

eBay Launches Instant-Purchase Service

eBay on Monday said it is launching its instant-purchasing service - eBay Express - intended to attract traditional e-commerce shoppers who want to buy immediately rather than bid on online auctions, reports Reuters. The site went public over the weekend and features 10 million items for sale from the existing base of eBay sellers. The U.S. ver  [...]

Google's Cleansing of Affiliate Arbitragers Gains Praise, Wariness

After cleansing itself from often redundant and sometimes misleading text ads put up by affiliate arbitragers - those companies making a small margin between the cost of a click and the reward gained from sending a customer to a real e-commerce site - Google is receiving both praise and concern from affiliate marketers, according to ClickZ. "  [...]

Reports: Google to Ban Affiliate Arbitrage

Revenews' Wayne Porter points to increasing chatter and expectations of an impending Google ban on affiliate arbitrage - the practice of companies diverting brand traffic to their sites in order to serve it back to the brand as an affiliate customer. The practice is extremely popular both through keyword buys and through search engine optimization techniques. For users, it decreases the perceived relevance of search results,   [...]

EPC, New Buying Method, Blends Views & Clicks

Gary Stein Blog: Cheers, CJ! Gary Stein attended Commission Junction's affiliate conference, reporting that the big new development appears to be a new form of publisher compensation: earnings per click, or EPC. The measure provides for a low CPM floor, over which publishers are bonused for clicks. Interestingly, this measure may prove in other contexts to be the fairest for other publishers, as cost-per-perfor  [...]

Advertising.com Bows Affiliate Network

Advertising.com launched its own affiliate network today, offering a menu of affiliate offers to web publishers. The platform includes performance analys  [...]

AOL Launches $30 Million College Savings Campaign

MediaPost: AOL and Upromise Bow Multimillion Dollar College Savings Campaign America Online announced a $30 million online and offline college savings campaign. In conjunction with Upromise, AOL will promote increased college contribution earnings and partner rebates. Already 4.5 million families have signed up. The campaign, which hopes to increase that number, will include Flash and Viewpoin  [...]

Blogstakes Raises the Stakes for Blog-Marketing Convergence

Blogstakes Blogstakes aims to merge the weblog phenomenon with viral marketing. The basic premise is that Blogstakes gives stuff away in sweepstakes, and bloggers are incentivized to link to the contests because Blogstakes will award the same prize to both the randomly drawn winner and the referring blog. The web copy optimistically promises, "So if the prize is a truck, then the winning entry gets a truck, and the blog that sent them gets a truck too."   [...]

Gizmodo Commerce Blog: Zero to 6,000 in 3 Months

BlogAds: Mondo Gizmodo Blogtrepreneur Henry Copeland reports on the growing success of blogtrepreneur Nick Denton's Gizmodo project. Nick, founder of Moreover (headline syndication), made a chunk of change accidentally during the boom off of FirstTuesday (international tech networking), and he's used some of  [...]