As you may have heard, an update over the weekend to some anti-virus software from a company called AVG is interfering with some LinkShare links between affiliates and advertisers. We assume this was unintentional. We discussed this with executives at AVG this morning, and expect this matter will be resolved soon.
We will post more as [...]
You may have read about the discussion surrounding questions of disclosure of financial relationships between bloggers and advertisers. At issue is when a blogger should disclose the fact they are receiving payments from an advertiser when writing about their products.
The Performance Marketing Alliance has posted an opinion by two attorneys with experience in [...]
The Performance Marketing Alliance (PMA) filed a brief yesterday in New York State Supreme Court in support of Amazon.com and Overstock.com in a pending lawsuit with the state. The case is over whether affiliate partners constitute a physical “nexus” in the state, and hence require online only retailers to charge consumers sales tax on [...]
The Performance Marketing Alliance (PMA) has a new section on the site dedicated to providing up-to-date information on state tax legislation. Here is the latest news from their site:
Updated July 12, 2009
The following states have passed these laws:
* New York – passed in July, 2008
* Rhode Island – passed in June, 2009
The grassroots efforts [...]
The Performance Marketing Alliance (PMA) is asking for a one-pager from North Carolina based affiliates that describes their business. They’ve also provided a form e-mail for publishers to fill in and send to Governor Bev Perdue.
Dear North Carolina Affiliates,
Your state legislature isn’t entirely convinced that a state/use tax nexus law is a bad [...]
