LinkShare Corporation Announces 2008 Golden Link Award Winners
NEW YORK, June 30 /PRNewswire/ — LinkShare, a leading pay-per-action marketing network, announced the winners of the 2008 LinkShare Golden link Awards at the company’s annual awards event hosted at The Plaza in New York City on Monday, June 23. This gala awards ceremony drew more than 300 leading executives together to recognize achievements and innovation in performance-based marketing.
The prelude to LinkShare’s annual Symposium, a daylong industry event covering innovative and collaborative trends on the Web, the awards celebrate the best of breed in both publishers and advertisers doing business online today.
“LinkShare celebrate the best in performance-based marketing with our annual Golden link Awards,” said Yasuhisa (”Yaz”) Iida, Co-President of LinkShare. “We congratulate all of the 2008 LinkShare Golden link Award winners, as well as this year’s nominees.”
The Golden link Awards received its best response ever, with more LinkShare advertisers and publishers nominated than ever before, according to Jonathan Levine, Co-President of LinkShare. “This is proof that these awards have come to mean something in our community and that’s exactly what we had hoped would happen when we started this five years ago,” said Levine.
The 2008 Golden link Awards Winners Are:
— Walmart.com: Innovative Advertiser of the Year
— Buzzillions.com: Innovative Publisher of the Year
— Petite Sophisticate: Best New Advertiser
— Clever Parties Inc.: Best New Publisher:
— FabulousSavings.com: Advertiser’s Choice Award
— Ice.com: Publisher’s Choice Award
— NET-A-PORTER UK: International Advertiser of the Year
— McAfee, Vertive Inc. (tie): Best Performance-Based Search Strategy
— Chase: Best Integrated Lead Generation Campaign
— 1ShopMall: MVP - Most Valuable Publisher for Lead Generation
— Dell Canada/Airmilesshops.ca: Best Integrated Multi-Channel Marketing
— Eastbay: Best Overall Online Distribution Strategy
— StyleFeeder: Technology Genius Award
— Revenue Magazine: Performance Marketing’s Most Vocal Advocate
The 2008 Golden link Awards winners were selected by an esteemed panel of industry experts. Visit for a full list of award finalists and winners.
About LinkShare
LinkShare Corporation provides ecommerce businesses with a wide range of online marketing services including Search Marketing (SEM), Lead Generation and Affiliate Marketing. Advertisers can increase their online sales by leveraging LinkShare’s massive performance marketing network along with expert consultative services and patented technology. Superior service combined with technology innovation allows advertisers and publishers to acquire and retain new customers, increase revenue and drive results.
LinkShare clients include Fortune 500 and other prominent and emerging companies doing business online, including J.C. Penney, 1-800-Flowers.com, American Express, and Avon Products. LinkShare was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in New York City, with offices in San Francisco, Chicago, London and Tokyo. LinkShare is a division of Rakuten, Inc.
About Rakuten, Inc.
Headquartered in Tokyo, Rakuten is one of the world’s largest and most comprehensive Internet service companies, providing leading services in e-commerce, portal & media, travel, financial services, and professional sports. Rakuten focuses on new business development and increasing its scope in order to improve and diversify service offerings. Rakuten, Inc. is a publicly traded company in Japan (JASDAQ: 4755).
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