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  • Interview with Matt Lovett

    1. Name, Title, Location.
    Matt Lovett, Managing Director & founder of WOW Media, based in the UK.

    2. How long have you been in affiliate marketing and how did you get involved?
    I have been in affiliate marketing since the age of 13 (2005). I got started in affiliate marketing after joining a UK cashback website and decided to build my own with a friend. This took off very quickly and I have been involved in affiliate marketing ever since, focusing on it full time after finishing High School in 2007.

    3. Give us a little glimpse into what a typical day in your life looks like.
    Wake up around 8am, check my phone reply to emails that I can reply to quickly. Get up have breakfast get to work around 9.30am. Check emails quickly again for any new emails that I can reply to quickly. Then after this I will check Asana and work through any tasks I have set myself for today, the day before.

    4. What are your hobbies/interests/passions?
    My biggest passion is my company, WOW Media. This takes up most of my time, when I am not working I enjoy going out with friends. I also love traveling (even though I hate flying!).

    5. There are already so many affiliate networks out there. What makes Yours different?
    Quite a few things set WOW TRK apart from other networks. I think its massively about quality offers for affiliates, we have built systems to monitor all offer links to ensure they are still working and are actively working on a unique tracking system to identify when an offer may have stopped tracking or is tracking incorrectly. We also offer local bank transfers in over 30+ countries and we don’t charge any fees for any of our payments. We cover all our own bank fees for bank transfers/WIREs etc. Affiliates also have a lot of insight into top performing offers they can see offers by Top EPC, Top CR and also ‘Featured Offers’ which the team recommends. We also are also working on ‘Trending’ offers which will go live on the platform shortly. These are just a few points that make us different, the list is massive!

    6. Do you have any exclusive offers that other networks don’t have?
    Yes we do, unlike many networks that pretend they have exclusive offers or just class any direct offer as exclusive, our exclusive offers are truly exclusive. You can see all our exclusive offers before signing up here:

    Offer Engine

    7. Which offers are performing well on your network?
    In terms of verticals the offers doing well are Deals/Discounts, Gambling, Trials and Prize Draw offers.

    8. Which traffic sources prove to be the most effective for your top earning affiliates – E-mail, PPC, PPV, SEO, Facebook, Media Buying or any others?
    Email is the biggest source of traffic on our network followed by PPC/PPV, Media Buyers then Social. Content is fairly small.

    9. Do you offer online training for new affiliates?
    Right now, no. However it is something we are planning to do and the development of an online ‘WOW TRK Affiliate University’ is something we have already started. For online affiliate support/help we do have our knowledge base that has over 80 support articles to help affiliates.

    10. What affiliate network software (tracking system) are you using? If you built it on your own – what were the reasons for doing so? (instead of choosing HasOffers, LinkTrust, DirectTrack and HitPath, etc.)
    Our network is based on the HasOffers platform, we choose HasOffers for the tracking reliability they have offer. They have a good long standing history of reliable tracking. Over the years we have built on top of the affiliate interface adding many unique tools for affiliates and ways to find better and top performing offers. We have also built our own admin system based around HasOffers to be able to automate more tasks and offer an even more superior service than the basic HasOffers platform offers.

    11. What are the criteria for a marketer to be accepted to your network? How does your network prevent and handle fraud?
    We require all affiliates to verify their phone number when signing up to the network. We also require them to give us specific information about their traffic. We combat fraud with additional manual checks, in certain cases manual address verification (e.g. if a user is paid via PayPal), we have also built our own fraud detection platform – WOWDETECT that monitors a range of data points from conversions and activity to identify fraudulent behavior for review by our team.

    12. For those who are interested in working with you and your affiliate network – What’s the best way/time to reach you?
    You can reach out to the WOW TRK team via email, live chat and phone. You can find all the contact details here: http://www.wowtrk.com/contact-us/

    13. What are the keys to building successful relationships between Affiliates and Affiliate Networks?
    Being open is very important. As a network we try to be very open and upfront about how we run our network, our offers and what we can offer Affiliates. The more Affiliates can be open about what they are looking for, their traffic the more we can help and build a long term relationship with them.

    14. What do you think about where the industry is going? Where your company may be going? What advice would you give to affiliates to keep up the pace?
    The industry is obviously getting more and more competitive. We are constantly trying to innovate and this week we released a new ‘My List’ feature for Affiliates so you can keep track of offers you may wish to run and huge improvements to our Offer Directory so you can create a very specific search query in order to find the most relevant offers. The advice I would give to Affiliates is try to offer something new or something that really adds value to the consumer. If you offer a superior product that really gives value to the consumer, you will see huge organic growth.

  • Interview with Jody Walsh

    Interview with Jody Walsh

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    1. Name, Title, Location.
    My name is Jody Walsh. I’m the Head of Business Development at ExpertMobi, US.

    2. How long have you been in affiliate marketing and how did you get involved?
    I’ve been getting involved in affiliate marketing for more than 10 years. Our team is running several large projects (one of them is ExpertMobi), dealing with advertisers, publishers and media buyers. I don’t even remember how I’ve started it but I’m very happy that I’ve connected my life with affiliate marketing and I enjoy it. I like to meet new people, go to conferences, consult people on different questions, help affiliates to get profit.

    3. Give us a little glimpse into what a typical day in your life
    Our office working hours are from 9 a.m to 6 p.m. (local time). During this time our team manages to solve the pool of important questions. I’m constantly being caught between two fires! On the one hand I have an army of publishers who need my help in solution of the simplest issues: tracker’s setting, setting of postback, traffic sources approval, check of accounts. On the other hand there is a cooperation with advertisers, timely conversions check, payment questions, search for new advertisers. It’s necessary to solve all these points quickly and professionally in a short time.

    4. What are your hobbies/interests/passions?
    From childhood I like traveling. By the age 16 I’d visited with my parents more than 40 countries on the two continents. At present day I’ve visited more than 100 countries due to my weekly worldwide meetings. Also I go in for sports very actively and do exercises 5 times a week, alternating aerobic training with power load exercises. Moreover I’ve been doing yoga for about 5 years.

    5. There are already so many affiliate networks out there. What makes Yours different?
    At present we really have a huge number of affiliate networks and its number is always growing and it’s great! When I started working in that field, there was only about 50 CPI, CPA networks. With the rapid development of mobile market a revolution came in users minds, new platforms were launched, the market got a new level.
    ExpertMobi is not the only our project. Have been working in this marketing sphere for more than 10 years we aim at getting maximum profit for both sides. We provide publishers with individual terms, high rate offers, direct exclusive advertisers, absence of caps, weekly payments. Moreover our network accepts newbies and there is no need to wait for account’s approval for weeks here. The support team is happy to professionally answer any question. As for advertisers we are ready to deal with any budget.

    6. Which offers are performing well on your network?
    There are a few CPI mobile offers which are the most profitable on the market and have a high budget: 1. For example: Apus Launcher, 9apps APK, UC Browser, Ali Express etc. (they often make a profit up to several $k a day. ) and pin submit offers which for some GEO’s have rates up to 60$ for a target action.
    I’d like to point out the following pin submit flows: MO Flow, MO MSISDN Flow, MO Flow with Click2SMS, MT Flow MT MSISDNT Flow. You can read about all conversion flows in details in our facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/ExpertMobi-951720061564063/?fref=nf . As for pin submits the user needs to pay for a subscription to generate a conversion and the affiliate can predict the potential profit if he follows the offers’ conditions. In case of CPI offers the users’ RR fails to be predicted and the advertiser can reduce your profit if RR is lower than it’s required.

    7. Which traffic sources prove to be the most effective for your top earning affiliates – E-mail, PPC, PPV, SEO, Facebook, Media Buying or any others?
    In fact all traffic sources are the most effective if the formula “source-offer” is correctly adjusted. As they say while one affiliate gets a great profit with PPC, another gets nothing using the same sources. You can check with admobispy.com, https://whatrunwhere.com, http://adclarity.com what campaigns are top and for what offers the major pubs are buying traffic now. But that does not guarantee that even if you copy the strategy, your campaign will succeed and you’ll get profit. That’s why, in whole, according to the sources statistics in our system, we have much pop-under traffic, but conversion rate generated is not high. At the same time as the price for this traffic is quite low, the result for affiliates is impressive! The second group of sources is PPC, PPV, SEO, Facebook. Traffic volumes are not so great but it’s targeted and high quality traffic. Experienced publishers make thousands of dollars a day running only one pin submit offer in Facebook!

    8. Do you offer online training for new affiliates?
    We do not provide online training at the moment, but we plan to start it in the nearest future. We’ve collected a huge number of materials, manuals and hope to share this information with our affiliate newbies soon. Still you can contact me directly on Skype: supportexpertmobi, jody.support and I’ll be happy to help you start working!

    9. What platform do you use? If you built it on your own – what were the reasons for doing so?
    The affiliate network ExpertMobi is not the only our international project. We’ve been doing our best to create the platform, the main advantage of which is convenience, usability and unique tools. It’s easy to use ‘cause every publisher needs just to register to start working with us, there is no need in answering thousands of questions, waiting for accounts approval for weeks here. You just need to select the offers you are interested in and set up the postback pixel for tracking. The great advantage of our platform is that every affiliate can tell us his wishes, we take them into consideration and bring them to life, while it’s impossible with paid platforms.

    10. What are the criteria for a marketer to be accepted to your network? How does your network prevent and handle fraud?
    To start working with us you need to sign up with ExpertMobi, select the offer you are interested in, describe your traffic sources and submit them for approval. As for affiliates they need to know the main principles of traffic campaigns and follow our network rules, offers terms and conditions. You’ll start getting profit with us quicker than anywhere! We have our own anti-fraud system, it helps us to trace any dishonest game, fraud, so I recommend you running campaigns honestly.

    11. For those who are interested in working with you and your affiliate network – What’s the best way/time to reach you?
    You can contact me on Skype ID: supportexpertmobi, jody.support and email:
    [email protected]

    No question will be left without attention. I’ll be more than happy to help you!

    11. What are the keys to building successful relationships between Affiliates and Affiliate Networks?
    The main key for successful relationships is the affiliates honesty and their sincerity.
    My team and I are interested that publishers get the maximum profit! We build friendly relations with each publisher, increase caps, make advance payments)

    12. What do you think about where the industry is going? Where your company may be going? What advice would you give to affiliates to keep up the pace.
    At present online affiliate marketing is developing very quickly and we are doing much to take the decent place in CPA niche. It’s not enough to provide affiliates with a wide choice of offers, but to give high rates, look for the most convertible and popular offers and provide publishers with the flexible payment terms. That’s why our team works only with direct advertisers and does its best to add new offers every day. Affiliates can find various offers for different traffic sources in our offers list. A great target traffic volume and its quality are the main keys for affiliates success.

  • Datorama

    Datorama

    Datorama is a global marketing analytics company providing the world’s first Marketing Integration Engine for enterprises, agencies, publishers and platforms. Datorama’s software-as-service (SaaS) platform gives marketers the ability to connect all of their data sources together, whether it’s a handful or hundreds, to form a single source of truth for more efficient reporting, better decision making and total control over their marketing performance.

    Datorama’s best-in-class combination of end-to-end data management, machine learning (AI) technology, and high-performance architecture makes it simple for data-driven marketers of all experience levels to connect, unify, analyze and act on all of their marketing data.

    Datorama powers marketing analytics for thousands of leading organizations and has a global presence with 14 offices worldwide. To learn more about Datorama, please visit: www.datorama.com

    Specialties
    Marketing analytics, Big Data, Data integration, Omnichannel analytics, Advanced analytics, Visualization.

  • HIRO Media

    HIRO is an online video ecosystem that uses its propriety technology to Improve the performance of all of its ecosystem players – advertisers, publishers and content owners.

    In the world of online advertising, every second counts. HIRO’s patented technology makes it easy and effective to serve up the right ad, at the right moment, to the right viewer, for rich results. Our programmatic distribution and monetization facilitates one of the fastest prediction-based real-time bidding (RTB) processes in the market, and this translates into practically unlimited scale. Combined with latency-based optimization, quick loading-time for video-players, a unique cloud-based architecture, and our real-time big data optimization, HIRO’s technology is maximizing ad opportunities unlike anything else.

  • CJ

    CJ (formerly Commission Junction)
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    We wrote the book on affiliate marketing – and we’re here to help you succeed. A lot has changed since we started back in 1998, and we understand getting started in affiliate marketing can be tough. We are the largest affiliate marketing network in the world, but it doesn’t mean our network is hard to navigate. The CJ Network is organized in a way to make it easy for publishers to search and find advertisers by category, language, targeted area and more. On the flip side, our advertisers can find publishers to recruit by name, email, URL and more. Below is a summary of how advertisers and publishers are organized in our network.

  • Health Trader

    Health Trader

    HealthTrader is an open affiliate network that aims to bring a splash of innovation to the industry. We do this by providing unique tools, extensive resources and great offers.

    Based in London, England, we are a team of web professionals who share a passion for affiliate marketing and a commitment to developing software that affiliates love to use.

    Founder and General Manager Blair Atkinson started HealthTrader out of frustration, as the larger open networks were not adapting quickly enough to the needs of both merchants and affiliates. The technology behind HealthTrader has been developed in-house and is both scalable and robust enough to deal with both current and future needs.

    Many of the unique tools, widgets and plugins have already seen instant success and the actionable reports are providing the hard facts that other networks don’t want you to know. Best of all, access to HealthTrader is free and sign up takes less than 30 seconds.

  • Direct FX Affiliates

    Direct FX Affiliates

    Service Description:

    Established in 2006, Direct FX Trading Pty Ltd has been regulated by ASIC and providing affiliates with solutions such as revenue share on the Metatrader 4 platform, the CQG FX platform, and binary options on an extension of Metatrader 4 called FX Lite. The Direct FX mission is to provide affiliates worldwide with the ability to provide a portfolio of top grade marketing material and a dedicated account manager to allow you to maximize your revenue. It is free to join, and offers a high commission payout making the Direct FX forex affiliate program an industry leader.

    Ideal Affiliate

    1. Offering a variety of tradable platforms and products
    2. Providing a fully transparent back office that displays commissions building in real time
    3. Around the clock affiliate support

    What Direct FX is not looking for are individuals who are not:

    1. Motivated
    2. Committed
    3. Achievers

    Key benefits from working with Direct FX

    Direct FX works on the uncapped revenue share model that pays out monthly. Our solid regulatory body and offering allows for affiliates to remain competitive in the industry. The sky is the limit for our partners, and we will assist our partners with helping them grow their business in regards to marketing material, advertising, and anything else. We are here to help.

    Pros & Cons

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    • The biggest advantage from working with Direct FX would be our customizable services.
    • Unfortunately, the biggest disadvantage of working with Direct FX would be they can’t accept U.S. traders

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    • Can accept affiliates operating in the U.S. as long as the clients referred are from elsewhere.

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    Technical Stuff

    Website address: http://www.directfx.com/en/
    http://www.directfx.com/cn/
    Price to join: $0.00
    Commission types: Revenue Share
    Minimum payout: $25
    Payout duration: Up to 2 times per month when affiliate chooses
    Payment method: Bank Wire
    Tracking system: MT4 Merchant Account and Client Portal
    Affiliate recruitment bonus: Sub-Affiliates permitted and customizable

  • Direct FX Affiliates

    Direct FX Affiliates

    Service Description:

    Established in 2006, Direct FX Trading Pty Ltd has been regulated by ASIC and providing affiliates with solutions such as revenue share on the Metatrader 4 platform, the CQG FX platform, and binary options on an extension of Metatrader 4 called FX Lite. The Direct FX mission is to provide affiliates worldwide with the ability to provide a portfolio of top grade marketing material and a dedicated account manager to allow you to maximize your revenue. It is free to join, and offers a high commission payout making the Direct FX forex affiliate program an industry leader.

    Ideal Affiliate

    For Direct FX, the ideal affiliate is someone who is operating on social platforms, write blogs, or post marketing material across the internet. Direct FX has put a great deal and effort into making their offering for their partners to stand out by doing the following:

    1. Offering a variety of tradable platforms and products
    2. Providing a fully transparent back office that displays commissions building in real time
    3. Around the clock affiliate support

    What Direct FX is not looking for are individuals who are not:

    1. Motivated
    2. Committed
    3. Achievers

    Key benefits from working with Direct FX

    Direct FX works on the uncapped revenue share model that pays out on the volume of trades made by the clients referred. Our solid regulatory body and offering allows for affiliates to present a wide range of products to potential clients. The sky is the limit for our partners, and we will assist our partners with helping them grow their business in regards to marketing material, advertising, and anything else. We are here to help.

    Pros & Cons

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    • The biggest advantage from working with Direct FX would be our customizable services.

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    • Unfortunately, the biggest disadvantage of working with Direct FX would be they can’t accept U.S. traders. However, we can accept affiliates operating in the U.S. as long as the clients referred are from elsewhere.

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    Technical Stuff

    Commission types: Revenue Share
    Minimum payout: $25
    Payout duration: Up to 2 times per month when affiliate chooses
    Payment method: Bank Wire
    Tracking system: MT4 Merchant Account and Client Portal
    Affiliate recruitment bonus: Sub-Affiliates permitted and customizable.