LinkShare Announcements
LinkShare strives to keep our affiliates up-to-date on the latest LinkShare announcements from policy changes, to payment updates, to new reporting features. Recent Network wide communications sent to LinkShare affiliates are listed below:September 24 - LinkShare is now paying publishers weekly, rather than two times per month. By moving to a weekly payment schedule, we are working to help reduce wait time to receive commissions and effectively double the number of pay days for publishers. This is the most publisher-friendly payment plan of the major affiliate networks, and we're proud that it is ours. Now is the perfect time to sign up for direct deposit, for more information, click here.
August 16 - LinkShare has launched Lead Advantage, our lead generation network. For more information, please go to the Lead Advantage area of the Resource Center.
May 31 - LinkShare has released new Web services offering for affiliates, called Automated LinkGenerator. Automated LinkGenerator creates LinkShare affiliate links for any product on a merchant’s site that offers LinkGenerator. This new feature provides the same functionality as the LinkGenerator tool in the Individual Product Links interface, without having to log into the Affiliate Interface to get your links. If you are interested in using the Automated LinkGenerator, please email us at linkgen_request@linkshare.com to have this new tool enabled. The Automated LinkGenerator is located under the LinkShare Feed Synergy Services area of the Affiliate Interface.
March 29 - Merchants in the LinkShare Network are now able to send RSS feeds to you that are pre-coded with your LinkShare Affiliate ID. To receive RSS feeds from your Merchant partners, you will need to subscribe to the Merchant’s feed and access an RSS reader (Newsgator.com and Pluck.com are two popular readers). For more information on setting up RSS feeds, select RSS Resource Page from the Home tab in the Affiliate Interface.
March 15 - After receiving valuable input from our Advisory Board members, we are happy to announce that LinkShare has removed the requirement to change your password every 90 days and the image challenge at login. LinkShare will continue to use SSL-encryption at login. Additionally, the Update Profile page is also secured using SSL-encryption.
March 1 – Creative Start/End Date: To help you manage your Merchant links and give you greater insight into special campaigns and promotions, LinkShare has implemented a start and end date for all Merchant creative, including text, banner, and individual links. LinkShare also expanded the Payment Report in Synergy Analytics to include a date range so you can view all your payment data back to May 2005.
January 25, 2007 — With our continued focus on innovation, LinkShareTM Corporation is pleased to announce the release of new enhancements effective Thursday, January 25. These enhancements include Interface Alerts, a Private Offer page, and a new process for updating Affiliates on Merchant status changes. For a detail description of these new enhancements, please go to your LinkShare mailbox under the Your Account tab or check your email.