AOL Co-Founder Steve Case On the Dotcom Bust of the ’90s
With many people speculating whether plunking down billions into social media this year is setting us up for another potential dotcom crash. AOL Co-Founder Steve Case took to Quora to ”...
View ArticleAM Affiliate: Are Content Farms Viable + More
- The case study in the HuffPo-Aol merger is this: That it’s unlikely you can build a long-term business model based solely on cunning SEO tricks and fooling search engines. [Slate] - Bad content is a...
View ArticleThe People’s History of Social Media: From Message Boards to Rebecca Black
What would Friday be without a look back at how the internet became a prevalent juggernaut? Courtesy of PeopleBrowsr is the fancy slideshow that demonstrates how social media has evolved through the...
View ArticleWhy Aol’s Fired Freelancers Should Embrace Affiliate Marketing
Not too long ago, we touched upon one of the biggest riddles of the internet marketing domain: Why so many emerging blogs opt for CPM over CPA advertising. But either way, the enterprising spirits...
View ArticleAM Affiliate: SEM and Rising Cost of Gas Related, Emails Don’t Have to Drive...
- The unlikely link between SEM and rising energy prices. [Adotas] - Blasphemy? “Not every email has to drive sales.” [MediaPost] - How Slim Fast blew a lot of money on a social media campaign on...
View ArticleAM Affiliate: Gamble on Invisibility, Facebook Owns 1/3rd of all Display Ads,...
» Here’s a great post about putting some faith in something that is invisible; as affiliate marketers, we do something everyday by gambling with new campaigns and betting on new trends–the important...
View ArticleAffiliate Bites: Google Group Chips In to Stop London Rioters, How CA...
» The future is here…and it’s well-intentioned? A Google Group has been using facial recognition software to identify those looting and rioting in London. [TechCrunch] » Tech companies can no longer...
View ArticleBonus Points: This Week, The Tech World Went Crazy
Hello, everybody! This week, many things happened. First of all, it was a four-day week, so even though many of us legitimately suffered from some kind of confirmed-by-science ennui that tends to occur...
View ArticleAM Affiliate: Advertising Is Now Social, Aol + Yahoo to Merge?, + More
» “At BuzzFeed, we believe that things have fundamentally changed and advertising is now social.” – Andy Wiedlin, Chief Revenue Officer of BuzzFeed. [MarketWatch} » The tech bubble may not be popping,...
View ArticleAffiliate Bites: Most Under-45s Have Smartphones, The Verge Emerges, + More
» The rah-rah-rah about Gmail’s new layout has turned into a more resounding wah-wah-wah. [Webmonkey] » A fix to your iPhone 4S’ iOS battery problem is coming soon..but before your battery runs out?...
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