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