Our team thoroughly enjoyed this year’s Affiliate Summit West in Las Vegas. Thank you to the Affiliate Summit founders, Shawn Collins @affiliatetip and Missy Ward @MissyWard, and to all who worked to host this incredible event. We appreciate your dedication to continually improving the affiliate marketing industry; Affiliate Summit plays an important role in achieving that goal.

We were very honored to win The Pinnacle Award for Service of the Year, which was awarded on the last day of the conference. This recognition reflects the hard work and dedication of the BrandVerity team and the continued support of our amazing customers! Congratulations to the other winners and nominees, especially the other Tool/Service of the Year nominees, FTMC and PerformanceMarketingJOBS.com, both formidable competitors for this award!

Looking forward to the next Affiliate Summit!

We're happy to announce the launch of our latest Branded Keywords Report!

BrandVerity's Paid Search Monitoring platform helps protect Getty Images' organic branded CTR 

Getty Images is the world’s leader in visual communication, with almost 200 million assets available through its premium content site www.gettyimages.com and its leading stock content site www.istock.com. With its advanced search and image recognition technology, Getty Images serves business customers in more than 100 countries and is the first place creative and media professionals turn to discover, purchase and manage images and other digital content.

More than 6,000 digital marketers from over 70 countries gathered at the Paris Las Vegas hotel for Affiliate Summit West 2017. Attendees included online publishers, bloggers, traffic sources, retailers, networks, digital agencies, technology companies, and a number of my BrandVerity colleagues.

Based on BrandVerity’s work with some of the largest U.S. and European brands, we had a suspicion that affiliate bloggers often were not using proper disclosures of endorsements. In the past, this may not have been a big deal i.e. no penalties for brands or bloggers. But in the last two years, the FTC has stepped up its efforts to ensure compliance with the guidelines that have been on the books since 2009.

The holidays are over. You’ve put the decorations back in their storage boxes, written down your New Year’s resolutions, and purchased that gym membership. Now it’s time to execute on all those big marketing plans you put together before the holidays.

Recently, Google updated their trademark guidelines to restrict the use of trademarks by lead generators. If you work with lead generation partners, they are no longer allowed to use your trademarks in paid search. And we believe this is a good thing.

We're happy to announce the launch of our latest Branded Keywords Report!

At BrandVerity, we make a concerted effort to recognize the individual and collective accomplishments of our team members. We work hard to create valuable services for our customers; and every once in awhile, we get to spend a little time together to celebrate that work. Thus enter curling.

Trademark bidding can seem like a tough problem to solve. You might feel overwhelmed with a number of questions, such as: