Rakuten to buy LinkShare
Well it finally happened, long expected and forecast by many, Linkshare is being bought by Japanese firm Rakuten. While many might wonder at it being a Japanese based buyer, for me it makes sense. LinkShare Japan have had a solid run in Japan and have been doing very well, and for a Japanese firm looking to launch a wide range of products into the US market, they are going to look to a network they have tried, Linkshare being the only network that has a solid base in both Japan and the USA.
Many are asking, "how will this effect them", I don't see any major ripples coming out of this (maybe a Japan based Symposium if I'm lucky :) ) , other than the network certainly giving some bias towards Rakuten's propoerties... which does raise the question, which merchants in competing segments are going to want to be on a network owned by a competitor...?
Many are asking, "how will this effect them", I don't see any major ripples coming out of this (maybe a Japan based Symposium if I'm lucky :) ) , other than the network certainly giving some bias towards Rakuten's propoerties... which does raise the question, which merchants in competing segments are going to want to be on a network owned by a competitor...?
posted by amwso @ 11:15 AM
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4 Comments:
At 5:53 AM,
Anonymous said…
I don't think there is any obvious conflict of interest. CJ's parent Valueclick purchased a ink retailer recently, but other ink merchants at CJ did not leave because of it. Competitor is competitor, as long as there is wrongdoing or mistreating it should not matter.
At 5:32 PM,
Dave Ryan said…
It is intresting how the companies are starting to build. I have been in discussion with some well known Internet Marketers about potentially starting a Corp with investers and publicly traded. It would have idfferent divisions but would focus on building executive independent people who can function solo. Then just share resources and do power JV's. Not sure hwo to talk people into investing millions into it though.
Regardless we are entering the second wave of the big internet companies. It is intresting how they are fighting it out. Google and MSN are basicly at war and will potentially both loose profits b/c of a bitter battle.
Yaho is switching business(becoming an AOL clone).
Its just crazy.
Iv discussed this quite a lot over at my blog:
www.how-to-market.blogspot.com
At 10:06 AM,
Anonymous said…
linkshare is a crappy affiliate company to work with.
STAY AWAY.
Their customer service is non-existant and their links and tracking methods are HIGHLY suspect.
cj
performics
amazon
all good programs that pay out on time. Linkshare? Been with them for 6 months now, have around 1000.00 in my account. Total money seen by me so far: 2.50 check.
At 8:46 PM,
Anonymous said…
Their customer service is non-existant
Boy, you can say THAT again.
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