The Official Amazon Associates Blog

NBC’s “Lipstick Jungle” Available for Download Exclusively on Amazon Unbox

The Associates program is excited to announce that Amazon Unbox has the hot new show from NBC, Lipstick Jungle, for free download for the whole week prior to its TV broadcast helping to drive traffic and referral fees on your site.  Use the Unbox Preview Player to add previews of top selling film and TV hits to your site.

Associates are eligible to earn 10%, 1.5% above the highest earnings tier, on all Unbox referrals (up to $1.50 per item). There is no limit to the number of items on which referral fees are earned.

To get started, follow these quick and easy steps:
1. add the unbox video widget to your site
2. Select "specificy videos" in the "add content" section
3. type "lipstick jungle" into the "Search Amazon Unbox" field

Last Week's Performance Issues

Last week some of you experienced performance issues with our links and widgets. We apologize for this inconvenience and are rolling out a series of changes that will allow us to detect any subsequent performance issues in a more timely fashion. We appreciate your feedback on this issue and will update you with any further performance issues. Please continue to use the discussion boards to ask questions or advice from other associates and we’ll chime in to address bigger issues as they come up.

-The Associates Team

10% referral fees on all Anime TV & Movie Downloads

The Associates program is excited to announce that in January 2008, Amazon Unbox has significantly increased its offering of Japanese Anime TV and movie downloads, including top sellers such as Paprika and Tekkonkinkreet.

In addition to our large Anime library, we are currently running a promotion in which we are offering free episodes of top Anime titles such as Naruto, Afro Samurai, Bleach, and Death Note to drive traffic.

To make promotion of Anime video downloads easy on your site, the Amazon Unbox team has created several easy-to-use tools. The Amazon Unbox Preview Player Widget provides Anime video previews to your site, and you can earn a 10% referral fee on sales of all Anime TV and movie downloads from Amazon Unbox.

Here’s how to get started:

• To build a Product Link, simply visit the Product Links page (you must be signed in) in Associates Central and select "Unbox Video Downloads" in the search menu. We have also made a number of general Unbox and Unbox on Tivo banner graphics (you must be signed in) available to you in Associates Central.

Note: As with other ASINs you can also use the format below to build links directly to Unbox products. Simply substitute the corresponding Unbox ASIN for "B000LEIOOY" and your Associates ID for "YourTagHere-20." http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000LEIOOY/?tag=YourTagHere-20