Which network supplies the best data feed?

**barbershop** · 21-12-04

Hello,

This may be like asking "how long is a ball of string?", but which network provides you the affiliates with the best data feed?

TGS has found that our home produced data feed produces great results and intend having an automated feed as soon as possible.

I would like this feed to reach as many people as possible and are considering joining an additional network to AF for promoting this.

All reccomendations will be gratefully recieved.

Kind regards, Robert

**999gi** · 21-12-04

Personally I find CJs best as they have a lot of fields

However from your perspective Id say AW because its almost as good in my opinion and its MUCH more widely used by affiliates

TDs has improved but they still have a tendancy to chop out useful fields and then muddle them all up into one spare field (e.g. Currys). Also there are other issues with TD such as spyware which means I could never recommend them!

DGM are no different to AF on feeds really

**darrenw** · 21-12-04

In order of my personal preference:

AffiliateWindow is best - they make their product feed data available in so many different ways.

BuyAt - They have now standardised most of their product feeds - they don't have many, but those that they do have work well.

TD - they've made some recent improvements, but there seems to be an annoying 24 hour delay between "subscribing" to each merchant's feed and being able to download them.

CJ - They want £200 off each affiliate that wants to use their product feed - unless they already make a certain amount of sales per month (unless this has changed recently!)... I have several general and niche comparison sites, and heavily rely on product feeds. I have made some commissions on CJ with targetted banners, but I would make a lot more with access to their product feeds (ironically!). I don't believe that you will get as much coverage with CJ...

Cheers,
Darren.

**Jeff** · 21-12-04

CJ and AW.

They can provide a single file for all merchants, which includes all the info I need.

TD has improved. But it's still a PITA to use, because their files don't include the name of the merchant, making the process of importing the info into a database much more difficult if you want to include the merchant's name.
Buy.at's is similar.

With CJ and AW I can update all their merchants at once, from just one file.

With TD and Buy.at each merchant has to be imported separately. This can be automated but the automation script is fairly long winded and needs to be updated every time a merchant is added or removed.

DGM and AF are well behind at the moment, but AF's tools make it easy for non techies to provide product searches.