If you have tried to use Commission Junction datafeeds in the past, then you may have suffered a bit of pain.
For starters, if you were registered through the US, they would have chanrged you $200 for the privilege (huh!!) of enabling datafeeds on your account (UK No charge).
But then, you had to raise a ticket and ask CJ to set up the feed for you and that invariably ended up going round the houses as one aspect of the feed wasn’t right (non-static name, not delivered compressed etc.).
Commission Junction have obviously been listening because now YOU ARE IN CONTROL.
A new option in your account administration will allow you to manage datafeeds yourself with a host of options
Filetype : XML or CSV Delimited (Tab, Pipe, Comma, Quoted Comma delimitation)
Fetch Method : Email, CJ FTP, Client FTP, CJ HTTP, Client HTTP
Files are all in gzip format, but now they have a standard naming convention : AdvertiserName-ProductCatalogName.txt.gz making them much easier to handle.
If your chosen solution doesn’t handle gzip, then why not use the information in my earlier post covering gzipped files and create a central repository of unzipped files that your different domains can use to fetch unzipped files.
One thing I am not clear on …. has CJ now made it free for our US cousins to use? I don’t know, but would appreciate feedback.
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Yes, it is free now to publishers.
btw, I liked the other site colors better.
I am glad to hear that Commission Junction have now dropped the fee for all publishers. It always seemed rather unjust to have publishers pay.
At least the US has now caught up … we haven’t had to pay in the past in the UK (at least all the time that I have been involved in AM).