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Everything Merchants Must Know About the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA)

By viktar / February 25, 2020

The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) officially took effect January 1, and it represents the most far-reaching U.S. law giving consumers rights to know what…

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Why Being Ranked as Inc. Magazine’s 42nd Fastest-Growing Private Company in California Means So Much

By viktar / February 20, 2020

Advertise Purple has won many prestigious awards throughout the years, but we’re feeling especially proud and grateful for an accolade that came across the wire…

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Affiliate Gets Alley-oop From NBA Star Kawhi Leonard, New Honey Spokesman

By viktar / February 14, 2020

A few months ago, we covered PayPal’s historic $4 billion acquisition of shopping and rewards platform Honey. Well, it looks like we’re starting to see…

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Ad Purp Profiles: Senior Partnerships Manager R.J. Kashare

By viktar / February 12, 2020

R.J. Kashare can be found seated right by the front door of Advertise Purple’s HQ in Santa Monica, California. His impact at the company extends…

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Lack of Transparency and Sincerity Plague Declining Influencer Space

By viktar / February 7, 2020

When you think of “influencer marketing”, what’s the first thing that comes to mind?  If you’re like most people, you’re probably going to immediately jump…

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6 Keys For Any Online Marketer to Conquer Valentine’s Day

By viktar / February 6, 2020

People (especially single people) have certain opinions about Valentine’s Day. Some are good and some are not quite so good. But regardless, there’s little to…

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WeWork Failed and Experts Criticized Millennial Office Culture. We Disagree.

By viktar / February 5, 2020

When it comes to building a successful company your employees will want to work for, there’s a fine line between being culture-driven and doing too…

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Affiliate Agency – Boost Your Online Profits

By viktar / January 31, 2020

top affiliate marketing agencies Are you looking for an affiliate marketing agency to monetize your social media marketing? A top affiliate marketing company will have…

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Ad Purp Profiles: World-class Dancer Turned Marketing Pro, Christian Henderson

By viktar / January 30, 2020

We were all told to pursue our dreams when we were younger. Of course, some of us became a bit more “realistic” with our dreams…

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Pros and Cons to the 5 Main Ways to Pay Publishers

By viktar / January 29, 2020

The biggest fear brands have when adding new marketing programs to their budget is that they will be overspending for only marginal benefit. We hear…

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What We Hope to Get Out of Affiliate Summit West

By viktar / January 24, 2020

Early next week (January 27-29) we’ll be sending some members of our team to Affiliate Summit West (#ASW20) in Las Vegas. In the past, we’ve…

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Results Are In: Nonstore Retail Sales in December Broke All the Records

By viktar / January 22, 2020

Firstly, yes I’m aware that nonstore is not a word. However, in this case let’s use it as a proxy measure for e-commerce performance. Boosted…

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Some of the Hottest New Affiliates to Look Out For in 2020. Can They Live Up to the Hype? (Part 2)

By viktar / January 16, 2020

Monday, we highlighted four of the newest and most innovative affiliates that we work with here at Advertise Purple. Today, I’d like to expand upon…

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Some of the Hottest New Affiliates to Look Out For in 2020. Can They Live Up to the Hype? (Part 1)

By viktar / January 14, 2020

Coming off the heels of PayPal’s massive $4 billion acquisition of Honey in November of last year, the e-commerce microscope is justifiably aimed squarely at…

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Ad Purp Profiles: CRM Analyst Jonathan Sohn

By viktar / January 9, 2020

This week, I had the pleasure of getting to know a little bit more about Jonathan Sohn, Market Research and CRM Analyst here at Advertise…

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Can Traditional Ad Agencies Handle Managing a Robust Affiliate Program?

By viktar / January 8, 2020

Look, I’ve seen Mad Men. I know traditional advertising agencies have a lot to offer. Sure, the days of mid-day happy hours and extensive cigarette…

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7 Resolution-based Verticals Affiliates are Eying in Q1 of 2020

By viktar / January 7, 2020

If you’re a better person than I am and you’ve stepped foot in a gym in 2020 already, you’ve probably come across big crowds of…

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Was It the Best Holiday Season Ever For Affiliate?

By viktar / January 3, 2020

Things are really heating up in the digital sales world. And in particular, in the affiliate space. This past fourth quarter, we saw record-breaking holiday…

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Inadequate Shipping Speeds Will Be an Online Sales Deal Breaker in 2020

By viktar / December 31, 2019

Gone, it seems, are the days of 7-10 day shipping seeming reasonable. Just when you thought you’d adjusted your business model to be able to…

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Global E-Commerce Continues Exponential Year Over Year Growth

By viktar / December 27, 2019

Happy Holidays everyone! Unless you and your family decided not to do gifts this year, or if you weren’t celebrating the holidays this time around…

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Large Retailers Scramble to Keep Up in New Digital Sales Environment While Nimble Adaptive Companies Shine

By viktar / December 20, 2019

Home Depot Inc. reported a 22% increase in online sales for its third fiscal quarter ended November 3, though it didn’t do the breakdown of…

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Why Most Publishers Believe ‘Last Click’ Shouldn’t be the Only Commerce Content Attribution Metric

By viktar / December 18, 2019

Content affiliates are great, but measuring their benefit can be tricky. Affiliate marketing, in the end, is about creating new streams of revenue. When gathering…

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4 Reasons A.I. in Affiliate Marketing Management is Something to Embrace, Not Fear

By viktar / December 14, 2019

At this point, it’s really pretty inevitable that artificial intelligence is primed to make its way into almost all realms of modern society.  The antiquated…

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The Future of Advertising

By viktar / December 12, 2019

I know, I know, it’s a bit grandiose to try to predict the future of advertising. I mean, if you were to ask any of…

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This Study’s Findings Will Make You Rethink Not Having an Affiliate Strategy

By viktar / December 11, 2019

When implementing a digital marketing strategy, there are a lot of options to sift through. Just a few channels to consider are email, pay-per-click (PPC),…

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At Advertise Purple, We Don’t Sacrifice Productivity to Maintain Our Great Office Culture and it Shows

By viktar / December 7, 2019

When you are constantly winning awards for your growth and business success, while also being touted as one of the best places to work in…

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Online Retailers Should Be Happy About the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Free Trade Agreement

By viktar / December 5, 2019

The United States-Mexico-Canada free trade agreement (aka the USMCA) is expected to be approved by the U.S. House of Representative this year, according to Speaker…

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Why Empowering Your Employees is the Best Perk You Can Offer

By viktar / December 5, 2019

At Advertise Purple, we have free lunches every Wednesday. We have numerous happy hours celebrating birthdays, anniversaries, holidays, and the like. We have great health…

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11 Ways to Stay Sane This Holiday Shopping Season

By viktar / December 4, 2019

Some people get their holiday shopping done in July (read: psychopaths). But for the rest of us, December is a busy time full of advertisements.…

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The Best Last-Minute Sales Trick For Black Friday & Cyber Monday

By viktar / November 28, 2019

The first recorded use of the term “Black Friday” was used not to describe crazed holiday shopping but to describe what at the time was…

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PayPal Acquires LA-Based Shopping and Rewards Platform Honey for $4B in a Big Win for Affiliate Marketing

By viktar / November 23, 2019

Don’t look now, but Los Angeles is birthing some of the hottest new companies in the world right now.  Most recently, Downtown LA’s Honey, a…

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Some 2020 B2B Predictions For You to Sink Your Teeth Into Heading to The New Year

By viktar / November 22, 2019

Now’s the time when you might expect to see a lot of coverage about Q4 and the holiday push for brands and consumers alike. Cyber…

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How Modern Online Marketplaces Will Almost Certainly Disrupt Santa’s Business Model

By viktar / November 22, 2019

Note: This is not meant to alienate people who don’t celebrate Christmas. But for you Christians and/or faux Christians, if you were born in the…

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Ad Purp Profiles: Mandy Pitera on Going the Extra Mile For Her Clients

By viktar / November 19, 2019

Mandy Pitera is often one of the last people to go home in the Ad Purp office. While her work ethic is certainly admirable, it’s…

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Rakuten Just Dropped a 2019 Holiday Shopping Infographic All Merchants Need to See

By viktar / November 19, 2019

Rakuten is one of the more noteworthy global brands out there, period, and as a leader in the affiliate marketing network space when they drop…

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Ad Purp Profiles: Justin Young Talks Balancing Pursuing an MBA At One of America’s Fastest Growing Companies

By viktar / November 13, 2019

Today, I had the pleasure of sitting down with Sales Operations Manager and general stand up guy, Justin Young (yes, he did do standup comedy…

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Forrester Study Confirms What A Lot of Us Already Knew: Affiliate Marketing is So Hot Right Now

By viktar / November 7, 2019

It’s arguable that affiliate marketing is not as widely studied or examined as many other forms of marketing, such as paid social, display, organic search,…

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The Balance of Growth and Loyalty in E-Commerce is the Hidden Key to Scaling Your Business

By viktar / November 5, 2019

At first glance, it seems obvious that any marketing strategy aims to attract new customers and keep existing ones. After all, no one expects a…

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Email Marketing Essentials for Affiliates & E-Commerce Businesses

By viktar / October 29, 2019

Email marketing is seeing a resurgence as affiliate publishers and e-commerce managers recognize the power it still holds. The old generic email-blasts may be dead…

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Worried About Coupon and Discount Affiliate Sites Cannibalizing Sales? Here’s Why You Shouldn’t Be…

By viktar / October 25, 2019

In the affiliate world, coupon and discount sites are a touchy subject and we kind of get why. One of the most common objections we…

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Why It’s a Must to Think Beyond Borders in Your E-Commerce Sales Strategy

By viktar / October 18, 2019

During the Democratic presidential debate two nights ago, this idea of the fourth industrial revolution came up several times. The fourth industrial revolution is commonly…

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Advertise Purple Honored to Be Ranked 37th On Entrepreneur 360 ‘Most Entrepreneurial Companies’ List, Per Yahoo! Finance

By viktar / October 16, 2019

In a recent press release picked up by Yahoo! Finance, it was reported that under the leadership of President and Founder Kyle Mitnick, Advertise Purple…

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Despite Troubling Times in the U.S., Holiday E-commerce Sales Projections Up 11%-14%

By viktar / October 8, 2019

You might have thought with a volatile economy and an objectively contentious political climate that e-commerce projections for Q4 might be a bit down. You…

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Ad Purp Profiles: Matt Wong Reflects on His First Few Months

By viktar / October 5, 2019

For a career-oriented young person at the beginning of their career, an overall sense of purpose and confidence in one’s ability to do their job…

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Could A.I. and Machine Learning Change the Affiliate Game?

By viktar / October 1, 2019

Today let’s talk about robots in advertising. I’m not talking about a robot dressed like Don Draper smoking mechanical cigarettes, though I honestly kind of…

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Motivation Secrets For Maximizing Affiliate Performance

By viktar / September 26, 2019

The success of an affiliate marketing campaign is directly related to the performance of its publishing partners. Highly motivated affiliates produce better results for merchants…

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Why Did Advertise Purple Travel 5,642 Miles to Attend an Affiliate Conference in Paris?

By viktar / September 25, 2019

Advertise Purple may be located in Santa Monica but the scope of our business extends much further than just California. Or even the United States,…

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Are Consumers the Only Cyber Week Winners? Not Necessarily…

By viktar / September 21, 2019

We’ve all seen the outrageous news stories covering Black Friday. Complete with fights breaking out, tug-o-war battles over flatscreen TVs, lines wrapping around the block,…

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The Four Types of Influencers According to a Study By Swiss Marketing Professors

By viktar / September 17, 2019

If you live in Los Angeles or New York City (or even if you just follow people who live there), you might be familiar with…

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How Millennials Choosing to Raise Plants Over Kids and Pets is Affecting E-Commerce in the Home Improvement Space

By viktar / September 12, 2019

If there’s one thing we’ve learned in the 2010s, it’s that millennials gonna millennial. Not only are we having kids and getting married later in…

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