6 Biggest Affiliate Moneymakers

Per an affiliate manager at RevupNet on Feb 21, 2012 the affiliate publishers that actually make significant money are:

1. Major Coupon sites, like retailmenot, and savings.com
2. Major Bonus sites like Upromise and Ebates
3. Major Loyalty Shopping Networks: like Cartera and DBG
4. Major Product Comparison Sites: like TopTenReviews
5. Cheators: Affiliates that cheat and bid on merchants trademark terms in Google search, pretending to be them
6. Niche content sites that have high SEO ranking on particular product related keywords

Start Monetizing Your Blog Today

"Start Monetizing Your Blog Today" all-women panel discussion at the Affiliate Summit West 2010, which took place January 17-19, 2010 in Las Vegas.

Panelists:

• Carolyn Tang:  Director of Affiliate Marketing for Groupon, Affiliate Summit Pinnacle Award for Affiliate Manager of the Year 2010.  Carolyn formerly led client services team at ShareASale.com affiliate, managed affiliate programs at Orbitz, CollectiblesToday.com and MyPoints.com. She is an adjunct lecturer at the Loyola University of Chicago. She has earned a MBA from Loyola & MSJ in Journalism from Northwestern.
• Trisha Meyer: Lawyer turned affiliate, makes pop culture sites for fun.
• Kristin President and owner of Madhatter Affiliate Manager, manages affiliate programs

Monetize Video Curation? "Magnify"

ComScore Video Metrix reported that in September 2011, 182 million Americans watched about 19.5 hours of online video each, for a grand total of 39.8 billion (yes BILLION) views.   That is a lot of video consumption.  And that is probably also a lot of hunting and sifting of videos.  As video consumption and production continues to explode, we'll need ways to manage the sheer magnitude of content.  Queue the curator, the source that we trust, helping us filter out the garbage, turn down the volume, and pre-screen the noise.  Like article curation, video curation interests me - as does the potentiality for the monetization of those efforts.