PC Magazine calls the HelmetMP3 one of the 10 Great Gadgets for Game Day!

HelmetMP3 is a portable MP3 player inside your favorite college team’s football helmet. WOW! What a great gift for Dad or for the college sports fanatic in your family.

And now with the HelmetMP3 affiliate program, you can earn 20% of the sale: almost $20 per conversion.

With the college football season just around the corner, Christmas gifts and the bowl season to follow affiliates will have lots of opportunities to market this great exclusive product.

HelmetMP3 Product specifications:

* 1 GB of Flash memory (approximately 240 songs)
* 2 color OLED display
* Rechargeable Li-ion battery
* Plays back MP3, WMA, WMA w/DRM9 and DRM10
* Plug and Play for Windows 2000 and up, Mac OS X
* Store data files in addition to music

College Team List

Air Force Falcons, Alabama Crimson Tide, Arizona Wildcats, Arizona State Sun Devils, Arkansas Razorbacks, Army Black Knights, Auburn Tigers, BYU Cougars, Cincinnati Bearcats, Colorado Buffaloes, Colorado State Rams, Duke Blue Devils, East Carolina Pirates, Florida Gators, Florida State Seminoles, Fresno State Bulldogs, Georgia Bulldogs, Illinois Fighting Illini, Kansas Jayhawks, Kansas State Wildcats, Kentucky Wildcats, Louisville Cardinals, LSU Tigers, Michigan Wolverines, Michigan State Spartans, Mississippi State Bulldogs, Missouri Tigers, Navy Midshipmen, Nebraska Cornhuskers, North Carolina Tar Heels, Northwestern Wildcats, Oklahoma Sooners, Oklahoma State Cowboys, Ole Miss Rebels, Oregon State Beavers, Penn State Nitany Lions, Pitt Panthers, Purdue Boilermakers, South Carolina Gamecocks, TCU Horned Frogs, Tennessee Volunteers, Texas Longhorns, Texas A&M Aggies, Tech Red Raiders, UCLA Bruins, Washington Huskies, Washington State Cougars.

With average sales running $100 and more, your total commission on the first sale could be $20 and more.

* Payout: 20% of sale
* Average Sale is over $100
* Cookie Duration 120 Days
* Site wide conversion of 1.25 %
* All items are 100% returnable
* Prompt refund service and customer service options available

Sign up today to be a HelmetMP3 Affiliate Program and start collecting your commissions. We look forward to your partnership!

Apply Now to this program.

SANTA BARBARA, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–ValueClick, Inc. (Nasdaq:VCLK), one of the world’s largest integrated online marketing companies, today announced that for the second year in a row its affiliate marketing division, Commission Junction, is used by more advertisers on Internet Retailer’s Top 500 Guide to Retail Web Sites than the next two affiliate marketing providers combined. In addition, Commission Junction leads in powering programs for 10 of the 14 market categories being used by advertisers to expand reach and increase online revenues. Among Internet Retailer’s list of top 10 retail Web sites, Commission Junction is the affiliate marketing provider of choice for brand names such as Staples, HP, Newegg.com and SonyStyle.com.

With the increased online revenues and unbeatable ROI delivered by the performance marketing channel, it is no surprise that affiliate marketing continues to be widely adopted by the online retailing industry. As a result, Internet Retailer reports, 335 of the top 500 retailers have affiliate marketing programs that they either manage through networks like Commission Junction or in-house. Commission Junction powers more affiliate programs for the Web’s top advertisers than any other network provider and is the preferred provider for the majority of the advertisers tracked by Internet Retailer in the categories of Apparel, Books/CDs/DVDs, Computers/Electronics, Hardware/Home Improvement, Housewares/Home Furnishing, Mass Merchants, Office Supplies, Specialty/Non-Apparel, Sporting Goods and Toys/Hobbies.

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Providing an array of distinctive products to the favor and personalized gift industry, Favor Studio has partnered with AvantLink to share their success with other on-line retailers in the Special Occasion category. Offering unique items in the major categories of wedding favors, party favors, and personalized gifts, affiliates will find their products to be a welcomed income source for their businesses. With hundreds of favor and gift choices available, customers are able to create a signature look that reflects their own personality and style.

The Favor Studio website design is clean, uncluttered, and easy to navigate enabling visitors to shop with ease. Each product page includes artistic, high-quality images supported with detailed descriptions, related product thumbnails and links for add-on sales. New and exclusive items are added to the product mix on a regular basis enticing customers to come back often for fresh designs, ideas, and products. All of this is supported by customer service team trained to provide outstanding service with a commitment to customer satisfaction.

Benefits of promoting Favor Studio:

* 12% commission on all orders
* 90-day cookie
* $140 average order size
* High site-wide conversion rate
* Professional, & knowledgeable customer service representatives
* Extensive selection of distinctive favors & gifts
* Artistic, high-quality product images
* Exclusive products
* Free ground shipping on orders over $150
* Low Price Guarantee

We look forward to your partnership!

Apply Now to this program.

Hello Everyone, We are pleased to announce the addition of Tramdock.com to AvantLink!

Tramdock.com is a store and website dedicated to selling the newest, sweetest, highest quality ski gear available anywhere on earth. Tramdock.com is owned and operated by Backcountry.com, so these folks know skiing. Period.

Based in the Wasatch mountains of Utah, powder skiing is practically a prerequisite for existence. This program will pay you up to 10% on the best ski gear and apparel. Fat skis retail for $600-$1000, and they’re moved heavily online. Do the math on that commission!

This is a ski-specific site with a high converting platform, top brands and outstanding program support. By adding dynamic, product-level campaigns to your site(s) now (free to you in AvantLink), you’ll be primed and ready for next ski season.

Oh and you’re also sure to convert sales in the summer, too. A ton of skiers shop during the off season to be ready to roll when the snow flies.

Benefits of promoting Tramdock.com at AvantLink include:
* Earn up to 10% on sales promoting the world’s best ski gear & apparel
* 120 day cookie duration with an average order size of $125
* Affiliate RSS feeds, industry leading datafeeds and other advanced tools
* Dedicated, experienced and committed program management
* Functional Affiliate tracking on all phone orders is available

To sign-up for this program follow these steps:
1. Login to your Affiliate account
2. Select ‘Merchants’ from the main menu
3. Locate ‘Tramdock.com’ in the merchant list
4. Click to detail page and ‘Apply to this Program’

Let us know what we can do to help you get started. Feel free to contact anyone at AvantLink or the Tramdock.com AM Brian Boyd, [email protected].

Sincerely,
AvantLink.com

Hello Everyone, We are pleased to announce the addition of Dogfunk.com to AvantLink!

Dogfunk.com is a site dedicated to everything snowboarding. It’s a world-class board shop that offers the top brands in snowboard gear, clothing, and accessories. And of course, it’s also powered by Backcountry.com, so you know your Affiliate marketing efforts will be rewarded accordingly.

Dogfunk.com offers a broad range of products from top brands like Burton and K2. Additonally, you can present your customers with quality products from smaller brands like Airblaster and Holden. This is a targetd site focusing on a demographic that buys online. Consumers will be searching for the products and brands that Dogfunk.com carries.

Take advantage of AvantLink’s Affiliate tools and get dynamically updated, spiderable content for product-level campaigns placed in high-profile areas of your site. We’ll keep the inventory and pricing accurate for your visitors, and the basic HTML output will help these pages rank accordingly bringing new buyers to you.

Benefits of promoting Dogfunk.com at AvantLink include:
* Earn up to 10% on sales promoting the world’s best snowboarding products
* 120 day cookie duration with an average order size of $125
* Affiliate RSS feeds, industry leading datafeeds and other advanced tools
* Dedicated, experienced and committed program management
* Functional Affiliate tracking on all phone orders is available

To sign-up for this program follow these steps:
1. Login to your Affiliate account
2. Select ‘Merchants’ from the main menu
3. Locate ‘Dogfunk.com’ in the merchant list
4. Click to detail page and ‘Apply to this Program’

Let us know what we can do to help you get started. Feel free to contact anyone at AvantLink or the Dogfunk.com AM Brian Boyd, [email protected].

Sincerely,
AvantLink.com

Hello Everyone, We are pleased to announce the addition of Backcountry.com to AvantLink’s Outdoor/Recreation category!

Backcountry.com is dedicated to being the best online retailer of the best built outdoor and backcountry gear on the planet. Many of you are familiar with this program so I don’t have to tell you how well they convert.

For those that haven’t seen first hand the successes of promoting Backcountry.com, Apply Now to their program at AvantLink! By using AvantLink to promote Backcountry.com, you can be assured your traffic is protected to the highest degree. We offer a parasite free environment that will help you convert traffic to commissions on the top brands in the outdoor industry.

Combine our Affiliate tools, Backcountry.com’s site, product line and order fulfillment processes and you can’t go wrong! Backcountry.com has always been an Affiliate-centric retailer, working hard to attract and retain quality Affiliate partnerships. They will get you what you need to succeed.

Here are some benefits of promoting Backcountry.com at AvantLink.com
* Earn up to 10% on sales promoting the best brands in the outdoor industry
* 120 day cookie duration with an average order size of $125
* Affiliate RSS feeds, industry leading datafeeds and other advanced tools
* Dedicated, experienced and committed program management
* Functional Affiliate tracking on all phone orders is available

To sign-up for this program follow these steps:
1. Login to your Affiliate account
2. Select ‘Merchants’ from the main menu
3. Locate ‘Backcountry.com’ in the merchant list
4. Click to detail page and ‘Apply to this Program’

Let us know what we can do to help you get started. Feel free to contact anyone at AvantLink or the Backcountry.com AM Brian Boyd, [email protected].

Sincerely,

AvantLink.com

Don’t miss out on this year’s exciting events at the LinkShare Symposium 2007 “Performance Marketing 2.0: Innovation and Collaboration” on June 19-20 in New York City. On Tuesday, June 19, LinkShare will celebrate industry achievements and trailblazers at the 2007 Fourth Annual LinkShare Golden Link Awards. We received an overwhelming number of nominations within twelve award categories. Winners will be selected by LinkShare’s E-Commerce Committee and announced at the black-tie awards gala hosted by Emmy Award winning comedian Kevin Meaney! Click here to see this year’s finalists.

On Wednesday, June 20, LinkShare Symposium 2007 morning sessions will include opening remarks by LinkShare President, Stephen Denton who will share exciting innovative developments from LinkShare. Keynote speaker Don Tapscott, Chief Executive of New Paradigm and best-selling author of Wikinomics, will speak about how mass collaboration affects innovation and partnerships on the web today. Following, this year’s TrendWatch 2007 Panel will discuss innovative trends in ecommerce today. Panelists include Ken Eisner, Vice President, Marketing, Shop.org; Sara Holoubek, Free Agent and Columnist; Karen Parrish, Vice President, BI Solutions, IBM; Lisa Picarille, Editor-in-Chief, Revenue Magazine; and moderator David Liu, Managing Director, Jefferies & Company, Inc.

Throughout the day, LinkShare affiliates and merchants will have extensive opportunities to learn about innovation and collaboration in performance marketing and to network during activities like the LinkShare Boat Cruise and LinkShare DealMaker. Click here to see the 2007 DealMaker Hosts.

Space is almost sold out! Passes to the conference are $495 each and tickets to the awards dinner are $350 each. Limited passes are still available -reserve your space now and join us for the premiere event in affiliate marketing. Click here to register!

The LinkShare Symposium 2007 sponsors include Platinum Sponsor Chase; Technology Partner Sponsor IBM; Gold Sponsor American Express; Preferred Partner Sponsors Bingham McCutchen LLP and LinkShare Japan; and Silver Sponsor Walmart.com.

For more information on LinkShare Symposium 2007, CLICK HERE

Hello Everyone, We are pleased to announce the addition of Upside Over to AvantLink!

Run by parents, Upside Over is an innovative new outdoor company and a leader in outdoor gear and technical clothing for kids. They carry the top brands and broadest selection online for kids camping, hiking, biking, paddling and watersports equipment.

Upside Over has a high converting, organized website and their team knows what it takes to maintain a quality web presence and Affiliate program. Be one of the first to promote Upside Over! This is all around a great opportunity for Affiliates with outdoor related traffic, especially family oriented outdoor traffic.

Also, anyone with a kid’s category will benefit from adding Upside Over’s creative or dynamic, product level campaigns AvantLink offers. Their 10% payout on all orders is one of the highest baseline offers you’ll find in the outdoor category.

Other benefits of promoting Upside Over include:

* 10% Payout with performance incentives
* Datafeeds, raw & dynamic solutions
* Affiliate RSS feeds
* Average order size of $120.00
* Cookie duration 90 days
* Brand name outdoor gear for kids
* Dedicated program management

To sign-up for this program follow these steps:

1. Login to your Affiliate account
2. Select ‘Merchants’ from the main menu
3. Locate ‘Upside Over’ in the merchant list
4. Click to detail page and ‘Apply to this Program’

Let us know what we can do to help you get started. Feel free to contact anyone at AvantLink or the Upside Over AM Steve Gilfus, [email protected].

Sincerely, AvantLink.com

Revenue Magazine Finalist for the LinkShare Golden Link “Performance Marketing’s Most Vocal Advocate” Award

SAN FRANCISCO, CA — (MARKET WIRE) — 06/01/07 — Revenue, the leading publication devoted to profit-making Web strategies, has been selected as one of three finalists for the LinkShare Golden Link “Performance Marketing’s Most Vocal Advocate” Award.

LinkShare’s award for “Performance Marketing’s Most Vocal Advocate” is given to a company or individual with the greatest influence within the performance marketing industry. Former winners of this prestigious honor include: Connie Berg, FlamingoWorld.com and The OverStock.com team (2004); Mike Hyland, EcomCity.com (2005); and Shawn Collins, Affiliate Summit co-founder (2006).

“We are honored to be recognized and included with such a great group of industry leaders in the performance marketing space,” says Lisa Picarille, publisher and Editor-in-Chief of Revenue. “Online marketing is such an exciting and vibrant community and being able to participate in a way that has a positive influence is very gratifying.”

The award winners will be announced at the 4th Annual LinkShare Golden Link Awards gala in New York City on Tuesday, June 19 at 7:00 p.m., the evening before the LinkShare Symposium 2007.

For a complete list of 2007 nominees, go HERE:

To get your free subscription to Revenue go to Revenue’s website.

About Revenue

Revenue magazine is a bimonthly magazine focusing on all aspects of the online marketing experience, including key business strategies, innovative marketing methods, effective online advertising techniques and emerging trends in technology. It offers unrivaled coverage of affiliate marketing techniques, search technologies, online fraud prevention and interactive advertising, branding and marketing. It is the only hard-copy magazine covering these issues for online marketers, affiliates, merchants, agencies and networks. Revenue and its companion website (RevenueToday.com) are published by Montgomery Media International (MMI), a division of Montgomery Research, Inc.

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News Release
From: LinkShare Corporation

LinkShare, Leading Pay-Per-Action Marketing Network, Acquires Online Lead Generation Firm Traffic Strategies.com

NEW YORK, June 4, 2007 – LinkShare Corporation, a leading pay-per-action marketing network, announced today that it has acquired Traffic Strategies.com, a privately held Tampa, Florida-based online lead generation firm.

The acquisition expands LinkShare’s lead generation capabilities, continues the international expansion of Rakuten, LinkShare’s parent company, and accelerates the growth of LinkShare’s online lead generation business. LinkShare will incorporate Traffic Strategies.com’s lead generation expertise into the company’s existing business and extend its lead generation service offerings.

“LinkShare’s pay-per-action marketing expertise across affiliate, search, and services will be complemented by Traffic Strategies.com’s expertise in online lead generation,” said Stephen R. Denton, President of LinkShare. “In addition to the high quality traffic generated by our network, LinkShare will now be able to offer our clients a multi-channel distribution platform for online lead generation.”

Established in 1996, LinkShare Corporation provides its clients with a platform that integrates high quality direct response digital media, services and technology. The company’s products and services span affiliate, search and other online marketing programs. LinkShare clients are Fortune 500 and prominent companies who want to maximize their marketing on the Internet.

Founded in 2001, Traffic Strategies.com develops and implements custom lead generation programs that leverage industry expertise, proprietary technology and consumer-facing channels to help clients achieve their online customer acquisition goals.

“By joining with LinkShare, a firm with global operations, Traffic Strategies.com will gain access to new markets,” said Mark McClure, President of Traffic Strategies.com, “as well as broader technology and service resources.”

While Traffic Strategies.com Chairman William C. McClure plans to retire after a 30 year career, Traffic Strategies.com’s senior management team including Mark McClure, will remain with the company to help drive the growth of LinkShare’s lead generation business.

About LinkShare Corporation

LinkShare Corporation provides ecommerce businesses with a vast, high quality pay-per-action marketing network, along with expert consultative services and patented technology. LinkShare’s cost-efficient pay per action (PPA) affiliate, search and lead generation campaigns acquire new customers, increase revenue and drive results. LinkShare clients are Fortune 500 and prominent companies doing business online, including J.C. Penney, 1-800-Flowers.com, American Express, Avon Products and Dell. LinkShare was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in New York City, with offices in San Francisco, Chicago, London and Tokyo.

LinkShare is a wholly owned subsidiary of Rakuten, Inc. Headquartered in Tokyo, Rakuten is one of the world’s largest and most comprehensive Internet service companies, providing leading services in e-commerce, portal & media, travel, financial services, and professional sports. Rakuten focuses on new business development and increasing its scope in order to improve and diversify service offerings. Rakuten is a publicly traded company in Japan (JASDAQ: 4755).