I’ve never used Deal Group Media as an affiliate, so I asked my good friend Steven Marwick of Virtual Cards to give me his thoughts on how DGM perform as a network. After all, who better to review a network than it’s own affiliates?
Network Name: Deal Group Media
URL: http://www.dgm-uk.com
Contact Details:
Unit 800
Highgate Studios
53 – 79 Highgate Road
London NW5 1TL
Telephone: 0207 691 1880
Type of Merchants Available: Deal Group Media have
many high profile clients, particularly in the mobile
phone and broadband internet sectors. They also have a
significant number of well known charities working
exclusively with them. They attract many big name
merchants, despite well documented and ongoing
problems with their DGM Pro software.
Payments: Payments are made monthly in arrears with
Deal Group Media.
2nd Tier Commissions: No.
Support Quality : Poor. It is very difficult to get
answers to email queries with this network. They seem
to prefer to deal with affiliates over the phone,
which is far from an optimal use of time for many
affiliates.
Merchant Performance Metrics Available: No. It is
possible to find out how a merchant is performing for
you but there is not any indication of how a merchant
is performing accross the network.
Keyword tracking: Yes, provided that you are able to
master the poorly documented clickreference system.
Search Term Tracking: No.
Referring URL Tracking: No
Custom Content Units: No
Data Feeds: No.
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
May 25th, 2007 at 1:00 pm
Thanks for taking the time & effort to put this together.
There are some interesting comments and feedback here, which we appreciate. However, I’d like to comment on a few things:
I would like to point out that our contact details have changed – a direct line to our Account Management Team is 020 7943 4203. Also all of our contact details – direct lines, MSN Messenger addresses and emails can be found at http://www.affiliates4u.com/forums/showthread.php?t=59291.
Also, from feedback we have received, the software problems encountered in 2006 have now been overcome and in terms of our interface, this has been upgraded so there is now a 3 click from front page to “Get Code” functionality. The interface also includes metrics on the front pages of the campaign section – including EPC, EPM, CTRs, OSC to help affiliate see what programs are performing well.
With regard to Search Term Tracking, as part of the NetworkID string within our tracking, you are able to put an identifier in there – and many affiliates use this to track search terms.
We do also provide Product Feeds for clients such as Boys Stuff, Vodafone, Microwarehouse etc.
Regards,
Dan Cohen
Affiliate Operations Director
dgmAffiliates
May 25th, 2007 at 10:38 pm
Cheers Dan,
I’ll update the overview accordingly based on what you have said.