Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Trend to Watch: Consumers Start Early, End Late (1 of 4)

Repost from the Google Retail Blog

The online holiday shopping season was a season of historic highs: $29 billion in online sales, the first $900M day in e-commerce history, 20% growth in Black Friday searches, and an even more impressive 60% growth in Cyber Monday searches. How did this historic online growth translate at the consumer level? Throughout the holiday season we tracked consumer research and purchase behavior and the results revealed a trend to watch in 2010: Consumers start early and end late.

Read the full post on the Google Retail Blog

Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Visit with Google Affiliate Network at Affiliate Summit West

The Google Affiliate Network team will join our fellow affiliate marketers at Affiliate Summit West January 17-19 in Las Vegas. We are hoping to see our valued advertisers, publishers and partners at the Meet Market on Sunday afternoon. If you attend Affiliate Summit, please come by our booth (#530) on Monday or Tuesday to meet your Google Affiliate Network team.

Also on Monday afternoon, don't miss Google Affiliate Network product manager Larry Adams' panel discussion on product datafeeds. You can submit questions to the panel moderator at: http://affbook.com/datafeed-panel-at-affiliate-summit-west-2010/


Session Overview
Monday, January 18 at 11:30 AM

Product Datafeeds: The Next Level

Product datafeeds are among the most powerful tools available to affiliate marketers. We’ll discuss the current state of datafeeds and industry progress, best practices, and moving toward standards.

Scott Jangro, President, MechMedia, Inc. (Moderator)

Larry Adams, Product Manager, Google

Shergul Arshad, VP, Business & Corporate Development, StyleFeeder, Inc.
Brian Smith, CEO & Founder, SingleFeed



See you soon!




Posted by Kristin Hall, Google Affiliate Network Team