What’s new: There is no download limitation (quota) anymore, the data for each programme can be retrieved as often as you like. Furthermore, we expanded the content, for example there is a new unique zanox product ID that remains the same throughout all product data updates. Also, we included ISBN numbers for productswe and introduced a coherent zanox category tree.

File names are now generated dynamically and include the creation date, programme ID, and partner ID - so you can see when the product data was updated and which programme and partner ID it was exported for.

More information and detailed descriptions are available in our Wiki:
http://wiki.zanox.com/en/Product_Data_Download

The zanox Application Store looks for applications that are relevant to the affiliate marketing industry and that provide publishers and advertisers with reliable added value. Developers can upload their own apps, like widgets, tools or software.

To recruit partners and apps for the Application Store, we provided various ad media in our partner programme – like banners, text links, and a video.

As a zanox publisher, you will receive commission for each new partner who registers in the zanox Application Store. Furthermore, attractive commission is paid for each application which is uploaded by the recruited partner and approved by zanox to be published in the Application Store.

Commissions:

• 5 EUR pay per Lead


• 50 EUR pay per App of category “Widget”


• 750 EUR pay per App of category “Tool and Software”


• 750 EUR pay per App of category “Software as a Service”

This campaign is particularly interesting because partners who upload a promising application by January 2010 have the chance to participate in our $2 Mio Application Store contest and can win investment capital amounting to a total of two million US dollars.

Please note that the current deal for applications will initially run for a limited period up to the end of January 2010. More information including detailed conditions for remuneration are available in the zanox User Interface.

Register here to recruit new partners and apps for the zanox Application Store:

• zanox Affiliates find Affiliates (international)


• zanox Partner werben Partner (Germany)

We wish you good luck and success promoting this campaign!

Especially during peak seasons like Christmas, affiliate programmes with a short confirmation time are way more attractive to publishers than others. So also as an advertiser, you can benefit from speeding up your Christmas business: The faster you approve transactions, and the shorter you set your auto confirmation time, the more money your publishers can reinvest into promoting your programmes, and the more attractive your programmes and promotions will become for other publishers too.

Advertisers who reduce their confirmation time significantly may let us know, so that we can point our publishers especially to those programmes.

The confirmation time is also one criterion for our selected Christmas offers: The weekly round-up of the most promising campaigns helps publishers finding out which advertisers offer the most attractive Christmas promotions, which products promise the greatest success or which ad media will lead to the best conversions: http://affiliate.zanox.com/global/affiliate-programmes

Have a successful and profitable end-of-year business!

Right in time for the start of the Christmas business, we kicked-off our exclusive, weekly round-up of the most promising advertiser campaigns today. Starting now, we will present you the most attractive offers and deals at a glance. As a publisher, you will receive three recommendations in comparison every week, via your Account start page, our promotion page (just click on “promotions” for your country), the weekly newsletter and our zanox Blogs. Find out which advertisers offer the most attractive Christmas promotions, which products promise the greatest success or which product will lead to the best conversions. You’ll also get all the information on commissions, confirmation rates and times, as well as specials, such as expanded SEM facilities, search deep links, standalone newsletters and special ad media can be seen at a glance.

The selection of the Advertisers is done by our local zanox teams and will focus on the appeal of the exclusive Christmas promotions and the programme quality. This should give you a perfect opportunity to plan your seasonal activities to perfection and to achieve the best possible conversions. We are looking forward to a great year-end business with all of you!

Now that we have a zanox Wiki for all our countries, we would like to invite all of you to contribute! Our Wiki is now easily accessible via our single sign-on solution zanox Connect.  So everyone with a zanox publisher account is now able to write, edit or translate with just one click.

So what’s the zanox Wiki all about? The zanox Wiki is our central knowledge base and serves as an extension of our network: Our Wiki holds precise explanations of all the terminology and processes surrounding our services and products, as well as general affiliate marketing topics. And since it’s all about collective intelligence, it’s not just gonna be us who maintain it, but we would also love to have your expertise to perpetually expand it.

Contributing is easier than you probably thought: You can easily become a contributor and share your knowledge with our community. Simply log-on to our network with your zanox Publisher account via zanox Connect and start writing, editing or translating.

Feel also free to use the Wiki’s discussion board to all Wiki-related questions and feedback. For all other questions or if you need help with anything, let our First Level Support know or use our support platform getsatisfaction.com

The zanox Wiki supports the following languages:

• English


• Deutsch


• Français


• Italiano


• Español


• Nederlands


• Polski


• Svenska


• Chinese

To reward you for your efforts we’re also working on a compensation programme for regular contributors and we’ll keep you up-to-date on this. We hope you enjoy working with the Wiki and sharing information!

So what’s new? Our new sub-ID management uses general purpose tracking parameters (GPP), which consist of a series of alpha numeric parameters. When a potential customer clicks a publisher’s ad media link and GPP parameters are filled in, the values are stored in the zanox tracking system. If the customer generates a conversion, the stored GPP values are retrieved from the zanox tracking system and placed in the statistics for the publisher. So GPP is basically a container which publishers can use to place their own tracking information onto conversions. From now on, all publishers are able to use sub-ID management without further activation.

If you want to learn more about our new sub-ID management with GPP, check out our Wiki documentation or download the PDF manual. It includes a detailed description and guides you through the process.

Now if that isn’t a great match with Alice’s tag line “The most beautiful connection” (“Die schönste Verbindung”). Well, we think the guys did pretty well, posing next to one of the world’s most beautiful women.

For the SEO contest, the publishers were asked to rank on Google top positions with the key word “Alice internet connection”. It was  www.grundlagen-computer.de, www.datenregal.eu and www.dsl-flatrate-abc.de who came first. Congratulations to the winners!

The 2009 AffiliateBenchmarks survey includes a wide range of questions about topics such as publishers’ experiences with different types of ad performance, site visitor demographics, technology and communication preferences, motivations for joining an affiliate programme, experiences with emerging technology, and more.

If you would like to participate in the survey, get started here. Enjoy!

So Twitter is a great way for us to keep up to date with what the international affiliate marketing industry is talking about. It’s all about people, their ideas, needs and perception of latest trends – and there are quite a lot! And of course, all companies are interested to see what people think and talk about them, no doubt. So Twitter is a perfect way to listen to and, at the same time, reach out to a large number of people in our business. Sure, there is promotion on Twitter, but we think that it’s an easy and direct way for you to keep updated on what’s new.

Since by now we have established several different and also local Twitter Accounts, we thought that it’s a good idea to give you an overview of our zanox Tweets:

twitter.com/zanox: Our first zanox Twitter account: It’s in English, international and, similar to our blog, keeps you up to date on what’s going on within the online marketing industry and our company.

twitter.com/zanox_affiliate: zanox_affiliate bundles all international news on the latest afffiliate programmes.

Our zanox country Tweets provide you with updates on local company news and also on the latest afffiliate programmes in your country:

And last but not least, we love to set up Twitter walls during our events, so everybody gets a chance to  comment on panel discussions or ask questions during a Q & A sessions. Oh, and tweets are also a great indicator on whether a party rocked or not: If there are tweets coming in around eight in the morning on the day after, it didn’t seem to be all that great – so glad our zanox Summer Party after-tweets sounded more like “Almost noon, time to get up eventually, still dizzy but wow – thanks, zanox for the amazing party last night!” Now that’s feedback we love to receive