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REPORT: What's Working in Affiliate Marketing in 2018 (44)

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Every year for the past several years, STM Forum Administrator Hugh Hancock, known on the forums as "caurmen", would put together a "What's Working in [current year]" post. And it would always receive lots of "Thanks" from members.

He was the ideal person to write such a post, as he not only had extensive experience in affiliate marketing, but he also talked to a great many people in the industry on a regular basis - online as well as at conferences and local meetups - which had kept him up-to-date on the current pulse of the affiliate marketing industry.

Unfortunately for both STM and the rest of the world, our beloved Hugh passed away suddenly in February this year - as he was about to attend the STM local meetup in London.

So, with Hugh gone, we decided to take up the task of writing the "What's Working" post for this year - year 2018 - in his honor.


And, to make Hugh proud, we decided to make this one even bigger than all the previous ones.

We wanted to turn this into a real community collaboration.

We wanted the result to contain a ton of value.

We decided to provide the information free-of-charge to everyone.


With these goals in mind, we set out to contact lots of the most successful affiliates and other industry experts. We contacted representatives from traffic networks and affiliate networks. We contacted owners of spy tools.

We sent them questions that were designed to shed light on the ultimate question:


What's working this year?


As it turned out, everyone was very supportive of our endeavor. In just 2 weeks, we received over 50 replies! So many individuals have taken valuable time away from their work to contribute to what they saw as a worthy project.

This makes us at STM truly grateful, and at the same time excited for you - the reader - who we know would find a ton of value in the resulting report.

We at STMForum.com would like to dedicate this report to Hugh Hancock. If you did not have the good fortune of having met or known him, you can find out more about Hugh in the following tributes:

In Memory of Caurmen - Tribute by Lorenzo (MrGreen), STM Co-Founder

Machinima founder and VR developer Hugh Hancock has passed away

In Memoriam: Hugh Hancock

On Hugh

We know Hugh would be proud and appreciative of everyone who has contributed to the making of this report.

Last but certainly not least, we would like to sincerely thank YOU - as your taking the time to read and benefit from this report is what will give it life and value.

Enjoy!



With Much Appreciation,

Amy and Matej, Senior STM Moderators

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Boom! That's a great overview of affiliate marketing in 2018. Hugh would be proud! Great job, guys!

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Can't wait to dive in! Thanks for spending the time putting the report together.

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Boom goes the dynamite!!

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There we go!!! Looking forward to the feedback we got on this, so whoever had a chance to download and read it already, please let us know what you think about it

Matej.

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Pure Gold!
Amazing. I love it. Will take sometime to read it. But tons of valuable information.

Good job! 💎💎

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STM is on Fire!!!

Amazing work guys!

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Sweet!

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Amazing! So much work went into this, Hugh would indeed be super proud!

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Awesome guys. The report looks great! Will be reading it tonight. Thanks a lot for the effort.

May Hugh Hancock rest in peace.

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Thanks a lot! so much great information

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Thanks for taking the time to create this report. I’m getting ready to print it and start reading it.

Finding Hugh’s conferences full of advice and motivation on YouTube where part of the reason of me discovering STM and AM so this tribute and report is an amazing way to honor him.

Thanks again!

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This is just awesome.

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Legit! Very solid work STM team!

Downloaded and queued for reading this evening



Andrew

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Great report.. only problem is i have to put my email address to get the report when im already subscribed on this forum? i just dont get it

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We want to track how many people download it and by doing it this way, we will get the most accurate data, thats pretty much the main reason.


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You of all people would know how much work went into this report!

The many hours of effort you've spent on designing and styling the report itself and the opt in landers...have paid off. Looks fantastic! Hugh would indeed be proud...



Amy

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What matuloo said.

Also, we have plans to update the report with more content in the very near future, and having a list will make it easy to send version 2.0 to everyone.

Plus...

We never spam. And you can unsubscribe at any time.

Thanks for your support!



Amy

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I just received the email and I will read it quietly, a big thank you to all those who participated and the greatest respect in Caurmen who initiated this appointment.

With the quality and integrity of posts from the 2 authors Matuloo and Vortex, please spam me all you want it will be gold !

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Great compilation. Just read it all and it helps keeping up with what’s going on in this industry.


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Great work both Amy and Matej and thank you everyone who participated!

So nice to see short stories of the participants and know each other even a bit more again!

Such an amazing, beautiful and full of golden nuggets report!

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Amazing work both Amy and Matej..

This is the best time to get this report

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Amazing amazing amazing work you guys!!! Love it

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I am just curious about the amount of downloads etc :-)

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Great, thanks for this awesome report! Much appreciated.

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Or at least it should be! Report is amazing!

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This report is next level - thanks Amy/Matej!

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I have tested a lot of verticals and traffic types. The report pretty much confirms my findings. A lot of true information there.
Thanks for the great job making it.

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took me 2 days to read this.. solid answers... seems like the game still havent changed that much... everyone seems to have their go to campaigns.

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Very useful - Thanks

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Getting this error when submitting the form:

Failed Personalization tag %VISITOR_ID% cannot be found.

Any idea?

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Will get the devs to figure out what went wrong, thanks for the heads up!

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FYI I'm seeing the error on (all? ) three LP variants. The 3k value one, the pink one with negative copy, and the compact purple one.

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This problem should be all sorted! Apparently it was a temporary glitch that has since been fixed. Thanks so much for letting us know, and please do continue to let us know of any future issues! (Knock on wood!)


Amy

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I ve got 4 hours of train tomorow, i m going to read this report. Thanks to all the writer and Hugh and his family.

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wow is all I have to say

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This is fabulous, thank you!

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nice work!

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I've just discovered this today, I'm really sad to hear about Hugh! Thank you so much for this guide guys.

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Thanks! I'll be reading it this weekend

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Appreciate for the 2018 report, is there a plan for an updated report for 2019? Thanks!

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2019 report will be published soon

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Incoming the next 24 hours I believe, hold tight :P

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The report is out! Download it here:

https://stmforum.com/whats-working-2...=ww19_stmforum

Enjoy!!


Amy

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