Paid project to compile a list of affiliate programs

[emanousos]

To those of you who don't know me, I work in the area of affiliate fraud research. My company has developed a technology to automatically detect fraudulent behavior in affiliate and ad networks.

I have a budgeted project to generate a list of large merchants with affiliate programs. We define "top" based on attractive programs with longer cookie length/return days and high payouts. I am also interested in smaller networks if they are known/suspected to have problems with fraud, stuffing cloaking,etc.

For now this list will exclude CJ, LS, epn and amazon.

Highest priority is getting the initial top100 list together, then expanding it to include more programs.

This list will be used for internal purposes and need not be perfect. It will be used as a guide for our business and software development priorities.

The Fields I am looking for in the list:
Company Name, Website, Affiliate Manager, Phone Number, Base Commission, Commission Type (cps,cpl,etc), Affiliate tracking software, Company Size (F500, etc.),Est. Number of Affiliates, Est. Age of Program, Affiliate Rating (opinion 1-5), Cookie Length (days), example of a tracking URL.

Send me a PM with your contact details if you are interested and we can discuss further details.

[Bob L.]

Out of 5,989 merchants across several networks, some of them on as high a six or seven networks.
I feel it's gonna be really hard to pick out 100 top ones to start with. My list of merchants don't include all that info either. You might talk to Ed on that one.

[Convergence]

Just a thought, you may want to contact the networks as some of this information would be near impossible for an affiliate to discern.

[~Ed~]

Originally Posted by Bob L.

You might talk to Ed on that one.

Actually, I suggested that he post his offer in this thread...

[Fred Conquest]

Duh! You need to buy a clue ... ALL NETWORKS ingage in fraud, theft and unlawful conversion ... start with Google and keep going down to the smallest of the small.

First, they ALL violate some state 'agency laws.' Second, they post merchants who are known crooks and who use deceptive techniques that violate at least some law somewhere.

For example: Shareasale is pretty clean ... but pretty is relative ... they host Fat Wallet and their toolbar - a known fraudulent device to steal affiliate commissions.

Now, listen up ... I am do not buy in to the consensus trance of CPA, because if it were good, then you could go buy time on TV based on orders generated - but TV had the same problems in it's infancy as the net does now ... people on the net are just more ignorant and generally dumber than the WWII generation.

Contract law and merchant networks are mutually exclusive ... make it up as you go ... no one will sue us because we are merchants and have some really stupid lawyers on retainer.

Note: If you are a really good lawyer, you work on Wall Street or in Washington D.C. not for some mediocre ad network.

You want to solve the problems ... make the merchants pay up front.