Does, or did, the iTunes affiliate program work for you?

[grantlittle]

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Back to ITunes though. Surely TD should be addressing the issue of tracking. If ITunes has no problem on the dgm.au network then why the problems here?

Last year iTunes' European affiliate revenues grew 200% and are forecast to increase by 600% this year.

To address Foxtucker's concerns:

1. The users MUST obviously have iTunes installed on the same computer that is being used to click our links.

Users who do not have iTunes installed will be redirected to download the application quickly and easily here: Apple (United Kingdom) - iTunes - Download iTunes . Upon loading for the first time, iTunes will display the content originally clicked from the affiliate's link.

2. There's no cookie process that ensures we get paid if the user makes additional purchases in the same session.

Affiliates will earn commission on all purchases made on the iTunes Store over a 24 hour period.

3. The commission rate is dire. I mean REALLY dire.

The iTunes Store contains a variety of higher value products that will help raise EPC, including apps, movies, TV shows and music collections:

App Store Homepage
http://clkuk.tradedoubler.com/click?...rtnerId%3D2003

Super Monkey Ball (App)
http://clkuk.tradedoubler.com/click?...rtnerId%3D2003

Bejeweled 2 (App)
http://clkuk.tradedoubler.com/click?...rtnerId%3D2003

Juno (Movie)
http://clkuk.tradedoubler.com/click?...rtnerId%3D2003

The Bank Job (Movie)
http://clkuk.tradedoubler.com/click?...rtnerId%3D2003

South Park (TV Show)
http://clkuk.tradedoubler.com/click?...rtnerId%3D2003

Essential Olympics Music
http://clkuk.tradedoubler.com/click?...rtnerId%3D2003

4. I know for a fact that I have not been credited with a number of sales that have taken place. I have a number of users that use links on my site purchase gift certificates for their family and friends. Just 2 days ago, one person made a £40 purchase and nothing has shown in up my stats. That's simply unacceptable.

iTunes reports affiliate sales using a batch system that takes around 5 days to enter TradeDoubler. The sales should have now tracked.

[wistop]

I noticed you mentioned a top 100 albums feed, this would fit nicely into my site. I would be interested to know what details are in the feed. Presumably Title, artist, price, what about cover art, review, description, etc?

Thanks.

[James16]

Replace $$$$$$ with Programme code
Replace ******** with affiliate ID

First thanks for the very useful post :tup

Second what is the programme code and where can I find it