Commission Junction to Spotlight Top 200 Affiliates

[5starAffiliatePrograms]

Hot off the press from our Mother Network ClickZ: CJ will have a new category for 200 of it's top performers to make it easier for merchants to recruit them and to build more merchant loyalty.

"ValueClick's Commission Junction affiliate marketing division is expected to launch a new program today to reward top-performing affiliates, and to help its clients recruit those publishers into their programs…

Through the CJ Performer program, top-performing publishers get access to enhanced support and resources, and recognition within Commission Junction's network as a premier publisher. The company expects to invite about 200 of its more than 70,000 affiliates to join the program, including long-time affiliate partners Upromise, Shopping.com, and Mezi Media — the parent company of Coupon Mountain, Smarter.com and MoreRebates…

In addition to rewarding existing top-performing affiliates, Commission Junction will try to use the CJ Performer program to lure away top merchants from competitors' programs, such as LinkShare or DoubleClick's Performics. Last month, Commission Junction convinced Buy.com to switch its large affiliate program from LinkShare's platform…"

Read the rest at Clickz: http://www.clickz.com/news/article.php/3518906

Then come back here to discuss it!

Linda

[Marcia]

Ah, doesn't it sound like CJ bought that list of the top 200 that word out on the street says was published without publishers permission or knowledge and is being sold for $199?

It just seems odd that it's 200 - the same number.

[5starAffiliatePrograms]

Marcia you are a hoot! I wanted to say something about that, but decided to keep my mouth shut and let you do it! The timing of this article was pretty funny, considering...

[5starAffiliatePrograms]

Not much new info, but here is the official press release from CJ:
http://www.cj.com/about/press/press_050711.jsp

[seobook]

wonder if I am on "the list" hehehe

[5starAffiliatePrograms]

Hey seobook,

Which "list"???