TigerUK

I have a latin dance website, and since music is highly related I decided to throw in a music widget on the sidebar to allow people to listen to music samples and hopefully buy if they'd like.

Unfortunately, I've signed up to the amazon program, I have worldwide visitors, I ony have amazon uk affiliate program running, and unfortunatly I do not want to have 10 different accounts to manage my widget and have 10 different minimum amounts to fulfil, as well as geotarget the widget to each user.

I don't use it to make money primrily buy rather to provde my users to related content, and keep them on the site (the music will stop if they leave).

I want to switch over to itunes program, and was wondering if the itunes program is as easy to use as amazons, I'd like a playlist of 30, 30s soundclips of the songs, to play the list, and not have to worrry about geographic issues, and having to sign up to multiple acounts.

Lerning

This is a good question. I wish someone knew. Also, does iTunes somehow give credit if you sent them to buy one song or artist and they end up buying others like how Amazon does. Does anyone know?

smartdoctor

I would be very interested to know the answer to that questions since I promote amazon mp3

Lerning

Seems not too many on here do anything with iTunes (I mean, search did not turn up much)

TigerUK

I should have guessed mp3 affiliating doesn't pay. I left the amazon mp3 playlist on there because it adds a nice eature to my website, and because I'm getting traffic from google for that genre of music it makes sense to have some hassle free way of having music on my website. (Without breaking any laws).

It's not a really big money making niche, the site makes around £12 a month on adsense, but because it used to be a hobby of mine I'll keep it.

For itunes affiliate programme I will have to sign up to tradedoubler, for amazon it's easy to sign up but they screw you with the regional signups, you have to sign up to each countries affiliate programme, which may make it hard to get paid because you will have small amounts in different country amazon programmes which do not mee tthe minimum amount, also I think if you decide not to sign up you get screwed because you don't get comission for referring you amazon.co.uk url to a US customer who gets asked to switched to amazon us.

hilarious89

Is itune an affiliate program? oh are you taking about itune program lunched by apple. Am I right?

Of course you should adopt itune as affiliate program cause your website is a music related site. But before you try itune I wanna suggest you to try top ranked affiliates such as affilorama, avapartner etc.

Thanks

GeoRiot

Unfortunately, iTunes is just like Amazon - Geographically segmented. But with the iTunes Affiliate program it's even bigger. iTunes has 22 programs and they are managed by multiple affiliate networks.

Yes! They have a 72 hour commission window so any purchase from their four stores (iTunes, App Store, Mac App Store, iBookstore) will result in a commission.

Solving this problem is actually a project I've been working on for the last couple years. We are polishing a service that allows you to use all the affiliate program simultaneously so you are maximizing your affiliate commissions.

Again, this is exactly what the project we are working on does. Wanna give it a try? Check out the link in my signature if you're interested in a trial.

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