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SuccessfulMatch At Affiliate Summit

by David Evans on January 29, 2009   in Marketing

SuccessfulMatch was at the Affiliate Summit and wrote in to say that the show was a big success. 4,000 people showed up. Only three dating sites were exhibiting, SuccessfulMatch, SinglesNet and Match. I enjoyed my conversation with SuccessfulMatch at iDate, we’re working together on a number of projects which I’ll talk about more at a [...]

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MediaDefender Secretly Sells Porn to P2P Users

by David Evans on September 22, 2008   in Marketing

Anti-piracy company Mediadefender is receiving a significant amount of revenue from adult affiliate programs.
MediaDefender is better-known for receiveing $4,000 to protect music albums and $3.6 million from a large studio to protect just 4 movies.
MediaDefender’s Ben Grodsky said in an email:

One of the theories I’ve had about why the LimeWire redirects sell so many porn [...]

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Instead of taking the high road and creating a service that genuinely helps people decide on the right dating site and getting paid for it, this marketing troll is spamming filesharing networks with porn ads. Nice. And you wonder why people still get hives thinking about online dating.
I had a hard time dealing with what [...]

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Unhelpful Dating Site Software Affiliate Program

by David Evans on July 13, 2008   in Uncategorized

Dear Pilot Group. I went to sign up as an affiliate today. How come your banner sizes are different for social dating and social networking? The smallest size for dating is 250×250, don’t you have anything smaller? Fix your category listing, it’s not showing all banners. Make it easier to select a specific category of [...]

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