August Newsletter

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Site maintenance on Saturday, August 13

On Saturday, August 13th, our engineers will be performing routine site maintenance from 10am to 5pm EDT. You'll be unable to log in to your Google Affiliate Network account during this time. Data will be delayed by a few hours once the interface is brought back online, but will be caught up by the end of the day on August 13th.

Order Reconciliation Reminder

Lockdown for July orders takes place on August 8.  Please be sure to check transactions reported to Google Affiliate Network against valid transactions in your internal systems.  For more information on monthly order reconciliation please see the following link: http://goo.gl/1RyQZ

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Publisher Webinar- C2C Marketing and ShopSocially: Thursday 8/4 @ 10am PST/12pm CST/1pm EST

ShopSocially will be hosting a webinar on Thursday 8/4.

When: Thursday 8/4 @ 10am PST/12pm CST/1pm EST 

Where: Shopsocially.webex.com/Registration code: gosocial

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.

Back to School Promotional Communication- Assets due 7/20

Have offers and promotions planned for Back to School? Enter them by 7/20 to be included in our network wide Back to School promotional communication. Visit this help center article for additional information.