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Affiliate Success Stories
By Monica Sturza
3 minutes
Affiliate Interview: YieldKit, Claim Your Affiliate Marketing Kingdom Winner
Get affiliate marketing insights from one of our Claim Your Affiliate Kingdom winners, YieldKit. Susana, Head of Advertiser Development, has been kind enough to answer our questions.
Affiliate Success Stories
By Monica Sturza
1 minute
Affiliate Success Story – Telecharger
Next up in our Affiliate Success Story series, we welcome Romain Bertoux from Telecharger, one of our top performers and long-time affiliate partners. Telecharger was recently awarded our Gold Part
Affiliate Success Stories
By Monica Sturza
2 minutes
Affiliate Success Story – Dmitrii Nikolaev
Since starting in the affiliate business 10 years ago, Dmitrii Nikolaev has become a successful affiliate marketer who caught our attention with his outstanding performance during our six-month con
Affiliate Success Stories
By Monica Sturza
1 minute
Avangate Success Story – Lee Robertson, CloudStorageBuzz.com
Lee Robertson sells several cloud back-up solutions as an affiliate via his popular reviews website, CloudStorageBuzz.com. In this interview, Lee offers some useful insights into successful SaaS af
Affiliate Success Stories
By Monica Sturza
1 minute
Avangate Success Story – Jim McMahon, MajorGeeks
MajorGeeks is one of the most popular software sites online. Behind this "very large toolbox for your PC," as they like to describe their business, are just two guys: Tim Tibbetts and Jim
Affiliate Success Stories
By Monica Sturza
1 minute
Avangate Success Story – Misha Sakellaropoulo , MacUpdate.com
Here's yet another affiliate success story with Apple products at the core. We recently heard from Julian Zitsch of Appslication.de and also saw the "other side of the story" &nd
Affiliate Success Stories
By Monica Sturza
1 minute
Affiliate Success Story – Julian Zitsch, APPSlication.de
There are plenty of people who love Apple products, but not all of them earn money from their passion. Julian and Maximilian Zitsch, two brothers from Germany, have managed to achieve admirable aff
Affiliate Marketing Trends
By Monica Sturza
1 minute
5 Tips To Manage Your Long-Tail Affiliates
It's likely that only 10-20% of your affiliate pool drives most of your sales. Whether you call them top affiliates or trusted business partners, it's normal to look at your affiliate progr
Affiliate Marketing Trends
By Monica Sturza
1 minute
How To Leverage Your Top Affiliates
If you want to maximize your affiliate sales, you've probably segmented your affiliate base by now. This is one essential step to grow a healthy affiliate program.
It is a mistake not to offe
Affiliate Marketing Trends
By Monica Sturza
2 minutes
5 Tips for Content Affiliates to Get More Traffic
If you're a content affiliate, then congratulations! Original information has the biggest impact on the decision to buy in today's overloaded digital landscape. You play an important role in t
Affiliate Marketing Trends
By Monica Sturza
1 minute
Promote The Best Tools to Manage PDF Files – Affiliate Products
As a software and digital goods affiliate, you probably know that many of your clients deal with PDF files every single day. Whether it's editing, converting to text or extracting data to Excel
Affiliate Marketing Trends
By Monica Sturza
1 minute
Top Software Verticals to Promote in 2017
The latest AffStat report shows that Online Services comes in third place among vertical preferences in the affiliate world, with 28.69% of affiliates choosing the category. That’s right behi
Affiliate Marketing Trends
By Monica Sturza
3 minutes
Top 9 Metrics for Measuring Your Affiliate Program
Let's say you just launched your affiliate program, either in-house or with affiliate networks. There are a few key metrics you should keep in mind when measuring your program's success. The a
Affiliate Marketing Trends
By Monica Sturza
3 minutes
Affiliate Best Practices: 5 Easy Ways To Boost Your Sales During Spring
Let's say you just launched your affiliate program, either in-house or with affiliate networks. There are a few key metrics you should keep in mind when measuring your program's success. The a
Affiliate Marketing Trends
By Monica Sturza
2 minutes
Affiliate Best Practices: Managing Your Email Account
Email marketing isn't going anywhere, and, in 2016, it will remain one of the leading digital marketing channels Tweet. Over one-third of the worldwide population will be using email by the end
Affiliate Marketing Trends
By Monica Sturza
0 minutes
100 Tips For Successful Affiliate Selling
Making money as an affiliate appears deceptively simple. Business publications tend to glamorize it and a novice can get the idea that all you have to do is to create a website, post about your hob
Network Contests
By Monica Sturza
1 minute
Get Up To 79% Discounts in Our 2017 Back To School Campaign!
This year we took some time to prepare in advance: our Back to School campaign has already started and you have the opportunity to enjoy a very productive end of Summer - our vendors offer dis
Network Contests
By Monica Sturza
0 minutes
Promote 20 Exclusive Deals in Our Affiliate Spring Sales Campaign!
Spring has come and we have prepared a record 20 deals campaign for our affiliates! If you haven't checked it yet, you should know that top digital goods brands have set up to 75% payout and up
Network Contests
By Monica Sturza
1 minute
Win Avangate's GOLD PARTNER OF THE YEAR Award
This holiday, Santa is bringing you and other affiliates a fantastic gift: the opportunity to become Avangate's GOLD PARTNER OF THE YEAR in 2017. The award includes a full year of consistent a
Network Contests
By Monica Sturza
1 minute
Black Friday Is Here!
We welcome the long-awaited shopping season with our Black Friday campaign launch on November 1. This campaign is part of our Avangate GOLD PARTNER OF THE YEAR Contest and is the first time we'
Network Contests
By Monica Sturza
1 minute
Christmas Offers – Exclusive Contests and Discount Coupons
Sleigh bells are ringing, Christmas trees are glowing and Santa is on his way with gifts for you and all of our other affiliates that have been good this year.
As a reward for all of your hard wo
Network Contests
By Monica Sturza
1 minute
Be Our Digital Marketing Hero and Go To Paris!
Calling all digital marketing heroes for a one-of-a-kind competition where the winners get teleported - ok, flown - to Paris for an amazing trip. The trip, as it turns out, is just the emblem on to
Network Contests
By Monica Sturza
0 minutes
Join our Back To School Flash Contest!
School is back in session, and in honor we're holding a Back to School Flash Contest to reward our hardest working affiliates. Prizes will be awarded to affiliates in three categories, includin
Network Contests
By Monica Sturza
1 minute
Race to the Top Contest
As you may already know, in late January, during the Affiliate Summit West we launched the Race to the Top, our most impressive contest so far. Actually, the process is simple – you have to s
Network Contests
By Monica Sturza
1 minute
Join Our Halloween Competition… If You Dare
As trick-or-treaters prepare to knock on our doors, we've decided to reward our spookiest affiliate with an iPad Mini this Halloween season. Just post a photo of you (and your friends, for that
Merchants & Affiliate Programs
By Monica Sturza
3 minutes
HMA! Interview: How to Leverage the Affiliate Channel & Grow the Business
Pavel Pudakov is Affiliate and Performance Marketing Manager at Avast, in charge with the HMA! Brand.
We recently had the pleasure to chat with Pavel on the topic of affiliate market
Merchants & Affiliate Programs
By Monica Sturza
2 minutes
Movavi Masters of Affiliate Management Interview
One of the main players in the multimedia software industry is our longtime partner Movavi, so we're proud to say they topped our Masters of Affiliate Management contest by consistently improv
Merchants & Affiliate Programs
By Monica Sturza
1 minute
Bitdefender Masters of Affiliate Management Interview
We're proud to say that Bitdefender is one of our biggest - and best-selling - partners, and that's why they are one of the winners of our Masters of Affiliate Management contest, a competitio
Merchants & Affiliate Programs
By Monica Sturza
2 minutes
27 Things to Do Before Going Live with a New Website!
Special Offer for Affiliates Looking to Promote a Great SEO Product
Whether you are looking to go live with a new website or checking if you have done the right things with your exis
News & Events
By Monica Sturza
0 minutes
Avangate Affiliate Network 2017 Benchmarks Infographic
Here's a wrap up of our activity in 2017.
The USA remained the leader in software sales throughout the second half of 2017, while France surpassed Germany, Canada moved in front of the Nether
News & Events
By Monica Sturza
0 minutes
Avangate Affiliate Network Benchmarks H1 2017
Here's a summary of our affiliate network's activity for the first half of 2017.
Our main target audience is still the USA, where the majority of our clients, vendors and shoppers are bas
News & Events
By Monica Sturza
0 minutes
Meet Us at the Affiliate Summit West 2017!
The beginning of the year 2017 brings us a wonderful and recurrent gift: the Affiliate Summit West attendance! We will be in Las Vegas throughout the conference - January 15 - 17 - and will be more
News & Events
By Monica Sturza
0 minutes
AffStat Survey 2016 is Now Open!
If you work in this business, now is the perfect time to make your voice heard: share your thoughts in the most comprehensive survey on the affiliate landscape: the AffStat Survey. For the last thi
News & Events
By Monica Sturza
0 minutes
Meet Us at the Affiliate Summit East 2016
The most popular affiliate event of the year is fast approaching and we're preparing to head to New York once again for Affiliate Summit East 2016! If you want to meet up with us and discuss bu
News & Events
By Monica Sturza
0 minutes
Vote for us to receive the Publishers' Choice Award at the European Performance Marketing Awards 2016!
We're thrilled to have gained more recognition for our contributions in the affiliate marketing landscape: we've been nominated for the prestigious European Performance Marketing Awards 201
News & Events
By Monica Sturza
0 minutes
Affiliate Summit East 2015
Yes, it's Affiliate Summit East time again and we can't wait to pack our bags and head to New York! Who doesn't like summer in the Big Apple, meeting inspiring people and developing exc
News & Events
By Monica Sturza
0 minutes
AffStat Survey 2015 Is Now Open!
It's that time of the year when we gather round and share our thoughts on the affiliate marketing business. The AffStat 2015 Survey is now open for you to take and more important, to contribute