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    Yahoo Announces Closure of AltaVista – Nostalgia Ensues

    by Dave Tinneny July 1, 2013

      Sad news this morning for anyone fond of internet nostalgia (myself included) as Yahoo have announced their plans to shutter the legendary AltaVista search engine.   Originally launched in 1995 back when the internet was all fields, AltaVista did a commendable job of making…

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    From affiliate site to changing live music forever – Songkick

    by Dave Tinneny May 16, 2013

    I’ve been using Songkick for a number of years now and am a huge fan of what they do. In a previous blog post I described them as the perfect affiliate site. The business model is incredibly simple. You tell Songkick which bands you like…

    Affiliate Marketing, Tug

    Bye Bye Google Affiliate Network

    by Dave Tinneny April 17, 2013

    Some of you may recall my excited blog post welcoming Google into the UK affiliate space just over a year ago and it’s with a heavy heart that I write this post today, detailing their demise – Google will be discontinuing their affiliate network worldwide…

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    Affiliate Marketing? Oh yeah, that’s the channel that generated £9 Billion in UK sales through 2012…

    by Dave Tinneny January 23, 2013

    Just in case you needed yet another reason to re-evaluate the affiliate channel in relation to your current online strategy, the good people at the UK IAB recently commissioned PricewaterhouseCoopers to conduct some thorough research on how the industry is currently performing. Spoiler alert: It’s…

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    Affiliate marketing? Still great and getting better! IAB Affiliate Advertiser Survey 2012

    by Dave Tinneny November 30, 2012

    The 2012 IAB Affiliate Advertiser Survey results were released yesterday and can be downloaded here.  It makes for some great reading and shows that as the industry matures, it’s getting more and more attention from marketing managers who now view this channel as an essential part…

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    Banners Broker – Ponzi scheme accusations intensify

    by Dave Tinneny November 29, 2012

    The affiliate industry is based on win/win partnerships. According to the annual AIB / PwC adspend figures, the sector was worth £47 million in the first half of 2012. Every so often though, it gets mired in controversy. Banners Broker has been getting an increasing…

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    Estonia plans entire generation of super coders

    by Dave Tinneny September 5, 2012

    ‘What did you do in school today, Toomas?’ ‘Well, I finally fixed out that bug on my website and helped Ingrid with her new iPhone App. Then we traded our sticker collections for an hour’ That’s the future for schools in Estonia as announced here…

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    Banner Ads and Affiliates: Part 3 – Conclusion

    by Dave Tinneny August 17, 2012

    “Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future” – Oscar Wilde This is the final part of my series on banner ads and affiliates. In part 1 I looked at the early says of internet advertising, while part 2 focused on the…

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    Banner Ads and Affiliates – Part 2: The Wild West

    by Dave Tinneny August 3, 2012

    “Be careful what you pretend to be, because you are what you pretend to be” – Kurt Vonnegut   This is the second part of my short series on banner ads and affiliates, you can find part one here.   In part one I covered…

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    Banner Ads and Affiliates – Part 1: The Early Days

    by Dave Tinneny July 27, 2012

    “When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago” – Friedrich Nietzsche   This is a short series about banners, their impact on performance marketing and the future for this tried and tested medium.   Imagine this for a moment –…

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