EBay to take over affiliate program’s management (InfoWorld)

EBay will soon take over management of the affiliate programs for its core marketplace and for its Half.com site from ValueClick in the hopes that it can operate them more efficiently. In early April, eBay will begin to migrate the roughly 100,000 affiliates away from ValueClick’s Commission Junction to the …

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EBay to Launch Partner Network (AP via Yahoo! Finance)

EBay Inc. on Monday introduced a new global affiliate program for publishers bringing traffic to the online auctioneer. Called the eBay Partner Network, it will serve as the company’s new in-house affiliate network and will officially launch April 1. More: continued here

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eBay dumps ValueClick (The Register)

ValueClick pays FTC $2.9m over misleading ads eBay is dropping ValueClick’s Commission Junction as the manager of the affiliate programs for eBay’s auctions and Half.com sites. Monday’s announcement came as the Federal Trade Commission announced ValueClick would pay a record $2.9m to settle charges it engaged deceptive advertising and failed …

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