Network Name: Affiliate Future
URL: http://www.AffiliateFuture.co.uk
Contact Details:
AffiliateFuture
Kirkman House
12/14 Whitfield Street
London
W1T 2RF
United Kingdom
Telephone: 0207 927 8115
Type of Merchants Available: Affiliate Future has a fair few travel merchants on its books and is therefore a firm favourite with affiliates specialising in this area. Virgin Holidays, Aspro Tours, Thrifty Car Rental & Portland Direct are there to name just a few. They also look a little more favourably on adult type merchandise such as toys, lingerie and DVD’s than most other affiliate networks.
Payments: Minimum payout is £25 for which Payments tend to be made around 12 to 16 days after the end of the month in which you earn them, so Affiliate Future earn lots of brownie points for helping out affiliates with their cash flow.
2nd Tier Commissions: Yes. You earn 5% of all commissions from a referred affiliate.
Support Quality : Good. One reason why Affiliate Future is so popular with many affiliates is its reputation for responsiveness and good communication. In my own dealings with them I’ve rarely waited more than a few hours for a response directed either via their online contact form or by direct e-mail to one of their friendly staff.
Merchant Performance Metrics Available: No.
Keyword tracking: No
Search Term Tracking: Yes. All affiliate links have this built in. Just paste in your desired identifier after “&tracking=” and you’ll be well on the way to search term tracking heaven!
Referring URL Tracking: No
Custom Content Units: No
Data Feeds: Yes. These can also be delivered directly to the ftp location of your choice when updated.
Type Of Programmes: (i.e per lead, per sale, per click, pay per call etc)
Per Sale: Yes
Per lead: Yes
Per Click: No
Per Call: No
This network is most definitely one that inspires loyalty from its affiliates, and with good reason. They are responsive, frequently seen to look after the interests of their affiliates, and have some industry leading performance incentives in the form of their annual affiliate jaunt to sunny Barbados.
I do find their merchant directory structure slightly frustrating at times, it could be far more searchable and easy to navigate. However, in the face of all their positives this is a minor bugbear.
Give them a go!
http://www.affiliatefuture.co.uk
May 15th, 2007 at 5:49 am
Good review Kirsty. I like AF - even though my mate Chris, one of the hardest working members of the team, is heading off back to Australia. Seems like everyone’s down there these days
May 20th, 2007 at 2:47 am
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