Affiliate Management Top Trends
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This presentation was shared at the PubCon Austin event in 2013 by Schaaf-PartnerCentric CEO Brook Schaaf.
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Affiliate Management Top Trends
- 1. Affiliate Management Top Trends Presented by: Brook Schaaf, CEO Schaaf-PartnerCentric
- 2. Top Trends • Attribution Adoption • New Marketing Methods – Pay-Per-Call – Mobile • Enterprising New Players
- 3. Attribution Adoption R.I.P. Last - Click Attribution
- 4. Attribution Adoption • Container pixel • Add/remove pixels • See click-stream and referral data • De-duplicate sales from multiple networks or internal channels
- 5. Attribution Adoption • Tag system • State/region, marketing method • Can alter payout based on tags • Details:http://ww w.shareasale.com/ tutorialplayer.cfm? video=tagsrules
- 6. Attribution Adoption • Universal Container Tags (UCT) • One tag to rule them all • Tracking and deduping of partner payments
- 7. Attribution Adoption Source: Impact Radius
- 8. Content Sites Takes a Hit
- 9. Leveraging Video for Rankings
- 10. Pay-Per-Call • Online click-based campaigns typically convert at between 1-3%. • Phone calls convert between 30-50% of the time.
- 11. Pay-Per-Call Case Study • Lexington Law saw month-over-month sales growth of 53% • Total sales grew by 630% • More than 1,200 publishers joined and are active
- 12. Mobile on the Rise • More than 50% of US mobile users were on smartphones as of February 2012 (Nielsen) • 57% of users would not recommend a business with a bad mobile site (Compuware)
- 13. Mobile
- 14. Enterprising New Players • Stipple.com – image tagging
- 15. Enterprising New Players • Social Growth Technologies – allows advertisers to reach highly targeted audience
- 16. Enterprising New Players • Flit.com – social shopping sharing
- 17. Enterprising New Players • MyThings – conversion and retargeting
- 18. Enterprising New Players • Revtrax – drive and measure in-store sales through any online channel
- 19. Enterprising New Players • edo Interactive – card-linked offers
- 20. Enterprising New Players • GoldenFeeds – quality data feeds with daily updates to content
- 21. Enterprising New Players • CoffeeTable – catalog shopping app
- 22. Enterprising New Players : Social
- 23. New Players : Virtual Currency
- 24. New Players : Mobile
- 25. New Players : Subnetwork Pubs
- 26. New Players : Browser Add-On and Toolbar Affiliates
- 27. New Players : Redirect Publishers
- 28. Thank You • Contact me with questions/comments: Brook Schaaf brook @ schaafpc.com
Editor's Notes
- Multi-channel attribution and pricing models encourage affiliates to innovate beyond the last click. This means the channel’s value will be expanded, making affiliate inventory more viable. Trend: Networks are moving away from last-click attribution.
- AvantLink has launched AvantMetrics, which uses pixel container functionality to enable you to add or remove third-party tracking pixels on demand, get insight into customer click-stream and referral data, de-duplicate sales between multiple networks and between your internal channels.
- ShareASale’s segmentation and attribution solution is called Tags and Rules – which is essentially a tag system not unlike how you’d tag on your blog or social media. The tags enable you to segment affiliates by such considerations as state/region of location or by marketing method used. You can vary affiliate payouts for affiliates within each tag.
- Advantages of universal container tag include: - ability for retailers to save as much as 20% on their performance marketing spend by de-duping conversions- ability to identify return customers- keyword-level tracking for paid search campaigns- ability to pay media partners who are credited for conversions or sales
- Impact Radius: "The consumer experience is influenced by these fragmentary marketing messages in complex, interconnected ways. And so, the need to understand online behavior across all channels and media sources is increasing in importance. This is where attribution reporting comes into play. Contrary to last click attribution, a multi-channel attribution reporting solution can provide rich, data-driven insight into your highest yielding marketing channels.
- Google’s Panda algorithm changes have hit affiliate sites hard. In a recent survey conducted by SEORoundTable, 73% of publishers said they had not yet recovered from loss of search engine rankings due to Panda updates. As result, affiliates moving away from content sites and toward coupon and loyalty.
- Cinsay is a publisher who is increasingly trying to leverage video to get Page 1 Google rankings. Text results are so competitive; takes years for pubs to appear naturally (if at all).
- Many verticals such as insurance, financial services, home services, higher education and high-end retail, are seeing great results with call-to-conversion rates between 30-50%
- Lexington Law implemented Ring Revenue Pay Per Call in late 2010 and saw immediate growth in call volume and sales. Month-over-month sales growth attributed to pay-per-call remains steady at 53%, and overall growth in total sales is 630%. New affiliates drive significant number of calls converting at 30-40%, generating 400 new clients per month for Lexington Law.
- Within Google Affiliate Network, a growing number of clients are seeing significant increases in program conversions coming from mobile devices.
- A study last summer commissioned by Google surveyed 1,000+ adult smartphone users in the U.S. and revealed that without a mobile-friendly site you’ll be driving users to your competition
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- Within Google Affiliate Network, a growing number of clients are seeing significant increases in program conversions coming from mobile devices.