S1 Ep12: How SingleView is Proving The Value of Affiliate Marketing

08/07/19 • 41 min

This month we’re chatting to founder of Manchester agency R.O.EYE, Mark Kuhilow about the new partnership between his company and Awin, offering brands a more nuanced view about the value affiliates bring in the purchase path. Mark explains how the idea for developing their attribution software, SingleView, came about and the methodology used in determining how affiliates complement other digital channels. He also shares how brands have used it to focus their attention on those affiliates driving more incremental value. Read more about the partnership here. Awin has used the market leading business intelligence tool Tableau for a number of years and Craig chats to Kevin about the company’s recent annual conference and the main topics that were discussed at the event. Craig also discuss how Awin is investing in business intelligence and how it’s being used to optimise affiliate campaigns and expedite additional insights as well as uncover the impact of more macro topics such as Safari’s ITP updates. Finally we touch on the recent GDPR and Facebook ruling from Germany that could be instrumental in defining the data controller/processor relationship.

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S1 Ep11: ThinkTank US & UK Conference Highlights

This month the podcast features a variety of audio highlights from Awin’s recent annual conferences in the US and the UK. Every year, Awin hosts its own industry events where its partners can come together to meet, network and learn more about the current trends within the affiliate industry. It’s a hugely valuable opportunity for businesses of every shape and size and both events had packed agendas, filled with content from a host of speakers. In Chicago Rob appeared on stage to interview a trio of contributors to this year’s Awin Report to hear more about their thoughts on the state of digital marketing and the affiliate channel. Tijs van Santen, CRO at Button, discussed the evolution of mobile and the profound influence that is having upon ecommerce right now. Kim Westwood, MD of Shopping Links, explained how influencer marketing is becoming increasingly professionalised and how it has been adopted by the affiliate channel to great effect. And Gary Kibel, attorney and partner of Davis & Gilbert LLP, provided an informative and illuminating summary of what the California Consumer Privacy Act consists of and how it differs to Europe’s GDPR. We then hear an excerpt from the UK conference in London where the Awin board and its UK Country Manager, Ian Charlesworth, are quizzed by Lisa Hammond, Awin’s Marketing Director, about the state of affiliate marketing and Awin’s position within it.

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S1 Ep13: Advertiser and Affiliate Marketing Insights from ISBA, Two Hot Publisher Partners Picks and Awin Asks for Your Votes

Working with trade bodies can be an incredibly productive way of amplifying the voice of your industry to a wider audience. This month we chat to Clare O’Brien and Emma Sutton from ISBA, the trade body that represents leading advertisers. As the organisation increasingly focuses on performance marketing, Kevin chats to Clare and Emma about some of the challenges the dizzying array of digital technologies presents to brands. He also discusses how affiliate marketing can position itself to better communicate its benefits to a more senior audience. Also this month we revisit our publisher picks slot to identify a couple of partners – one new, one existing – who are shaking up the affiliate space. Tazmin Hansen from the publisher team shares her thoughts and advice about how to work with these publishers. Kate Irvine also joins us as she asks for your vote in securing a speaker slot at this year’s PILive. Kate explains the rationale behind her two ideas, ‘What can Affiliate Marketing offer Generation Z and ‘Affiliate Marketing; The good, the Bad and the Ugly Account Management Practices’ and why she’d love to share her thoughts with the wider PILive community in October. For the first time people will be asked to vote from a shortlist of nine sessions, with the winner taking to the stage in 2019. You can vote for one of Kate’s two shortlisted sessions here. Lastly we cover off a couple of topics in the news, the release of the US’s groundbreaking affiliate marketing study and how Ofcom changes in how consumers can switch their sim-only deals had a significant impact on telecoms affiliate programmes.