Affiliate Summit West is a little over a week away and we’re collecting a set of fantastic advertiser prizes to give away in our “Twitter A Winner” contest!

If you are an affiliate publisher with a valid URL and plan to attend the show, you’re eligible to win one of 21+ prizes throughout the weekend.

Prizes include:

• - Grand prize of a Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 from BargainStation.com
• - Gift certificates to Goldstar, TripAlertz, Value Pet Supplies & more!
• - Gifts from Badoo, CafePress, Designers Guild, Ghirardelli, Girly Checks, Veer, Whittard of Chelsea & more!

In order to enter:

• - You must be an affiliate/publisher (buy.at membership not required!)
• - You must own a valid URL

Look for twitter posts from @buyatUS announcing winners during ASW 2012. Winners must pick up their prizes at the buy.at booth (#404) – and don’t delay!  Each winner has a limited amount of time to pick up their prize before it’s awarded to someone else.

Visit http://bit.ly/ASW12Contest to enter and good luck!

Members of the buy.at US team are speaking at BlogWorld Expo and PubCon this week and next week.  If you’re attending either show, let them know!  They’re looking forward to meeting new contacts as well as familiar faces.

Meet Jeannine Crooks this week at BlogWorld Expo! 

BlogWorld & New Media Expo 2011
Los Angeles Convention Center: Los Angeles, CA
November 3-5, 2011

Track: Business of Blogging & Podcasting
Session: Promoting Your Blog in the Age of Social Media
Date/Time/Room: Tuesday, November 3^rd / 3:45-4:45pm / Room 409 A
Speakers: Jeannine Crooks, Dave Taylor, Brett Greene, Doyle Albee & Joshua Dorkin

Session Description:
“Successful blogging isn’t just about writing great content, it’s about all the myriad of ways you need to drive traffic to your content. More and more, it’s about social media, whether it’s Twitter, Facebook, Google Plus, LinkedIn or a new social network that just launched last week. What are best practices? How do you manage time? What differentiates each audience?  This panel discussion will highlight best practices and case studies that will illustrate how you can tap into the massive audiences on the social networks to gain more, better, smarter readers to your own blog starting today.

Key Points
1. Differences between the major social networks and how to appeal to each audience
2. Best practices with building audiences on social sites
3. How to incorporate “like” “tweet” “repost” and similar links on your own site to increase buzz”

**Connect with Jeannine Crooks**
Email: Jeannine.Crooks[at]buy.at
Twitter: @Jeannine_Crooks
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jeanninecrooks

Meet Kim Salvino next week at PubCon! 

PubCon Las Vegas 2011
Las Vegas Convention Center: Las Vegas, NV
November 7-10, 2011

Track: Affiliate Conference
Session: Essentials Overlooked by 90% of Affiliate Managers
Date/Time/Room: Tuesday, November 8^th / 4:15-5:30pm / Salon E
Speakers: Kim Salvino, Jerry West, Keith Posehn & Karen White

Session Description:
“A number of crucial affiliate program management elements are being overlooked by the majority of merchants. Discover what these essentials are, and how to use them to your competitive advantage. What’s working? What’s hot? What are the biggest trends in the affiliate space today? What are the best strategies? Find out in this session.”

**Connect with Kim Salvino**
Email: Kimberly.Salvino[at]buy.at
Twitter: @Kim_Salvino
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kim.salvino

Our list of prizes is STILL growing!!
(which means even better chances of winning!) 

Affiliate Summit East is only a few days away and we’re adding even more advertiser prizes to give away in our ‘Twitter A Winner’ contest! ANY affiliate/publisher that is attending the show and has a valid URL is eligible to win – even if you are not a buy.at affiliate!

***We added a new set of very nice prizes from Designer’s Guild, a program that’s launching soon on our network where affiliates can earn up to 12%.***

• - BargainStation.com: a Samsung Galaxy tablet
• - Coyuchi: Basket Weave Blanket
• - Designers Guild: 1 zephirine candle, 1 peony candle, 3 20×26  pillow cases, 1 battista peony blanket, 2 bourton hand towels, 1 Christian Lacroix pillow (red), 1 Beduzzi silk throw pillow (pink)
• - Ghirardelli: 1 five pound bar, 1 Ghirardelli Squares gift basket, 2 filled bar gift boxes
• - Girly Checks: A free order of checks and checkbook cover
• - Goldstar: 3 $50 gift cards
• - Organic Bouquet: 3-month membership to their roses monthly gift club
• - Veer: Laptop bags by Acme Made & Missing Piece Puzzles
• - VIP Live Drive: 3 gifts of unlimited data backup online for your computer for 1 year

Look for twitter posts from @buyatUS announcing winners during ASE 2011. Winners must pick up their prizes at the buy.at booth (#202) – and don’t delay! Each winner has a limited amount of time to pick up their prize before it’s awarded to someone else.

Click here to enter and good luck!

Our list of prizes is growing!! (which means even better chances of winning!)

Affiliate Summit East is only a few weeks away and we’re adding more advertiser prizes to give away in our ‘Twitter A Winner’ contest! ANY affiliate/publisher that is attending the show and has a valid URL – even if you are not a buy.at affiliate – is eligible to win

• - BargainStation.com: a Samsung Galaxy tablet
• - Coyuchi: Basket Weave Blanket
• - Ghirardelli: 1 five pound bar, 1 Ghirardelli Squares gift basket, 2 filled bar gift boxes
• - Girly Checks: A free order of checks and checkbook cover
• - Goldstar: 3 $50 gift cards
• - Organic Bouquet: 3-month membership to their roses monthly gift club
• - Veer: Laptop bags by Acme Made & Missing Piece Puzzles
• - VIP Live Drive: 3 gifts of unlimited data backup online for your computer for 1 year

Look for twitter posts from @buyatUS announcing winners during ASE 2011. Winners must pick up their prizes at the buy.at booth (#202) – and don’t delay! Each winner has a limited amount of time to pick up their prize before it’s awarded to someone else.

Click here to enter and good luck!

Affiliate Summit East is around the corner and we’re collecting a set of fantastic advertiser prizes to give away in our “Twitter A Winner” contest!

If you are an affiliate publisher with a valid URL and plan to attend the show, you’re eligible to win one of 15+ prizes throughout the weekend.

Prizes include:

• - Grand prize of a Samsung Galaxy tablet from BargainStation.com
• - Gift certificates to Goldstar and several other merchants
• - Gifts from Organic Bouquet, Coyuchi, Veer, Ghirardelli and more!

Look for twitter posts from @buyatUS announcing winners during ASE 2011. Winners must pick up their prizes at the buy.at booth (#202) – and don’t delay!  Each winner has a limited amount of time to pick up their prize before it’s awarded to someone else.

Click here to enter and good luck!

On Wednesday 30th March, Affiliate Window and buy.at hosted its first travel sector event, All Aboard, on the historic Royal Navy Ship, HMS President. Attended by a variety of well-known travel brands including Expedia, Opodo, Best Western Hotels and Marriott International, the affair consisted of industry leading presentations, a mini-expo and an afternoon of informal networking.

Guest speaker Kevin May, Editor and Co-founder of tnooz took to the stage to offer insight on the impact of recent technological advances and impending changes to the structure of the travel vertical. His discussion included current challenges in the industry, specifically with regards to changes within airlines and hotels product distribution, and marketing strategies. Continuing, he touched on the entrance of Google as a key player to the sector with their 2010 acquisition of ITA Software. Kevin captured the audience’s attention by introducing some of the latest developments among the handheld device revolution including Apple’s patent pending app, itravel. To view Kevin’s presentation in its entirety, click here.

Owen Hewitson, Client Strategist for Affiliate Window & buy.at shared results from the network’s travel research study, which analysed three advertisers within the vertical, all of which are exclusive to the networks. The research concluded that although there are a large number of content and comparison sites in the sector, voucher code and cashback partners dominate market share within the affiliate travel industry. Additionally, it was interesting to learn that the vast majority of affiliate driven sales convert the first day; more importantly within the first 30 minutes of the initial click-through. For further details on the research study and to view Owen’s full-length data analysis presentation, click here.

“All Aboard is the latest in a series of successful sector events. We feel the sharing of industry insights coupled with informal networking strikes the right balance, helping advertisers, agencies and publishers to connect whilst offering something new for everyone to reflect on.” says Kevin Edwards, Strategy Director for Affiliate Window and buy.at.

Photos from All Aboard can be found on our Facebook page.

For press enquiries, please contact:
Lisa Chaikin
PR Manager, buy.at & Affiliate Window
e: lisa.chaikin@digitalwindow.com
t: 020 7553 0333

We are pleased to announce an innovative new feed for Ticketmaster UK.

The new Ticketmaster Extended feed is an amalgamation of the following existing data:
* Events
* Artists
* Venues
* Categories

In the standard Events feed, the artist, venue and category is identified by an ID which requires the affiliate to cross reference the relevant feed to get the attribute (e.g. Artist name, Event name). Quite a few affiliates have found integrating this data to be a challenge and so to assist them we have created a new Extended version of the Events feed, which includes all the same events as the standard Events feed but also includes enhanced attributes for each event.

The extended attributes are as follows:
* Venue Name
* Artist Name
* Category name
* Artist Image
* Country
* Venue Image
* Venue Post Code

This new product information will make things a lot easier for affiliates and we feel this will be a popular addition to the existing array of Ticketmaster feeds. It will be updated at the same times as the other TM UK feeds (currently at 7.45am, 10am, 2pm, 7pm) and will run alongside, not replace, the existing Events feed.

To start using it, please head to your management area and grab the feed named “Ticketmaster UK – Extended”; the ID of the feed is 701.

If you have any questions or feedback then please get in touch.

Regards,

Simon
simon.quick@buy.at