The 2009 UK Affiliate Census, carried out by Econsultancy in association with AffiliateWindow, was published on the 10th February. More than 1000 affiliates took part in the survey. Azam Marketing’s Senior Partnerships Manager Louise Goldstein shares her thoughts.
Having now had a chance to read through the full report, here are my reflections on some [...]

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In his 1920 work Beyond the Pleasure Principle, Freud famously commented that “the goal of all life is death” and, on 25 December, 2008, my friend Peter Banham fulfilled all our destinies.

Peter was known to many people in affiliate marketing since his days at Summit Media where he worked from 2001 to 2007 and had [...]

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For the first time in years I haven’t written any articles or blog posts for several weeks and I was recently asked by an industry friend where I’d disappeared to.

Two events, on the 25th and 27th of December, 2008 ended up preoccupying my mind to such an extent that I didn’t feel like writing about [...]

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On Wednesday I braved the snow and attended another Econsultancy Manchester Digital Shorts event. Ian Jindal is a firm favourite of the Azam team and I went to see his review of Christmas 2008 trading results as well as predictions for developments in e-commerce in 2009.
The British are among the most recent group of online purchasers in the Western world, yet [...]

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Azam Marketing’s Senior Account Manager, Karen Clayton, looks at the public and media reaction to this week’s snowfalls in the UK, the heaviest in the country for 18 years.

With all the recent doom and gloom surrounding the current UK recession, it’s refreshing that something as simple as a few inches of snow has brought the [...]

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A new survey of the UK search engine marketplace shows that Yahoo has lost 40% of its market share in the last 12 months.
The report by Efficient Frontier indicates that spending on search marketing in the UK rose by 11% between Q4 2007 and Q4 2008, in contrast to an 8% drop in the USA [...]

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