Thursday, July 21, 2011

Q3 Exclusive Affiliate Opportunities Program

If you are looking to attract new publishers, increase productive relationships, grow offer distribution and drive incremental sales, participate in our Q3 Exclusive Opportunities program.
  • Assets to participate are due: 8/15 
  • Q3 dates the offer will need to be available and live: 9/23-9/26
  • We will start promoting participating advertisers on 9/13 via: network emails to affiliates, blog postings on our Google Affiliate Network main blog page, Twitter and additional promotion through other Google products   
All advertisers are encouraged to participate, but must meet the following criteria:
  • Provide an exclusive and compelling consumer affiliate offer*
    • Examples include strong % off, $ off, free shipping, combination of offer + free shipping 
  • The offer must be live and available for consumers via link or coupon code over the specified weekend, Friday - Monday
  • Program is not private and is visible to all affiliates to join
  • Affiliate application approvals must be managed within 24 hours starting 9/13
  • Offer must be scheduled to go live during the live time frame for that quarter
  • All participation assets are due on or before the participation due date including:
    • Offer copy, offer creative, offer URL, any offer exclusions
    • 120x60 banner- Promotional banners are encourage but not required
    • At least one static banner without coupon code
      • Can provide additional banner with coupon code 
  • *Note, Google Affiliate Network reserves the right to remove offers
Ready to submit your offer? Visit this Help Center article for additional information and complete the submission form by the appropriate quarter participation date.

Have questions? Please contact your account team for assistance.