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@Engineer 185178 wrote:
Can someone from Rewards please post a response here?
well, just received the newsletter and its not good.
From the newsletter:
Quote:Announcement Regarding Your Players
We’d like to inform all affiliates that effective Monday November 10, 2008 we will no longer be accepting any new registrations from players residing in the USA. Existing USA players will be able to play as normal.
We understand that USA traffic is the majority of the commission maker for some affiliates. For this reason we have a few factors that may help lessen the financial loss.Existing US players: Existing US players will continue to play as normal. As you know, our retention team here is in it’s best standing since we opened our doors, and in order to help keep these players playing, we will be offering the existing US players some excellent retention offers.
I received it today sayging they will pull out on 10 which is today!
Geeez, why didnt they email before monday!
@casinotime 185699 wrote:
Geeez, why didnt they email before monday!
I guess because they wanted affiliates to continue promoting them until the very last minute… Or maybe there were meetings and battles going on behind the scenes.
Still, why today? Another group (Grand Prive, I think) is staying in the U.S. until December 1. Why can’t Rewards and everyone else do this, too? :tooconfus
Can’t say I am very happy about this!
Can someone please paste the full newsletter? I haven’t gotten one for some reason…
Late payment this month as well.. tsk.
@nodepositneeded 185822 wrote:
Can someone please paste the full newsletter? I haven’t gotten one for some reason…
Did also not get the newsletter :sarcasm:
Glad I can be of assistance :tongue:
Quote:In this newsletter:
– Announcement Regarding Your Players
– New SUB at Yukon Gold Casino
– CAP Awards 2009: Nominations Closed, Voting Open Now!
– New Poker DL Linking Codes
– New SUB at Zodiac Casino
– New $1500 Free Promotion at Golden Tiger Casino
– CAP Euro: BarcelonaAnnouncement Regarding Your Players
We’d like to inform all affiliates that effective Monday November 10, 2008 we will no longer be accepting any new registrations from players residing in the USA. Existing USA players will be able to play as normal.
We understand that USA traffic is the majority of the commission maker for some affiliates. For this reason we have a few factors that may help lessen the financial loss.
Bounce Back Link: This has been operational for a couple of years now at RA, however I’m not certain many affiliates know exactly what it does.. Basically, you enter a URL on the bounce back link page in your aff account for where you’d like to send any banned/blocked traffic. So in essence, if you had any US traffic clicking on a link for one of our casinos, they would then be redirected to the URL you have entered into your aff account, including an aff link for another casino which takes US traffic.
Existing US players: Existing US players will continue to play as normal. As you know, our retention team here is in it’s best standing since we opened our doors, and in order to help keep these players playing, we will be offering the existing US players some excellent retention offers.
Promotional Material: We understand that some affiliates will need to diversify into other markets, which is why we are proud to let you know that our creative database is the biggest it has ever been. We are currently providing affiliates with literally thousands of up to date banners, flash banners and mailers, as well as targeted splash pages for languages such as French, Italian, Spanish, Danish, German and more in USD, CAD, EUR and GBP, as well as targeted landing pages for specific games such as slots, roulette and blackjack. These are available across all 18 casinos and 5 poker rooms. Creatives are also available on request, so if there is anything you need that you aren’t able to find in our marketing tools, please don’t hesitate to let me know what it is you need and I’ll be right on it.New SUB at Yukon Gold Casino
In order to give your players the choice of great offers, Yukon Gold now has a new SUB:$1000 Free and 1 Hour of Free SpinsPlayers who don’t qualify for the bonus from the free spins, or who reject the free spins, are also offered a $50 free for deposit of $50 or more bonus.
Terms and conditions may be found here: http://www.yukongoldcasino.eu/promo/signup.asp
A range of banners for this promotion are available.
Any questions, please let me know.CAP Awards 2009: Nominations Closed, Voting Now Open
The nominations for the next CAP Awards have closed and the voting is now open. Don’t forget to put your vote in!
The categories we are nominated in are:
Best Affiliate Program [ Overall ] – Rewards Affiliates
Best Affiliate Program [ Casino ] – Rewards AffiliatesBest Casino Affiliate Manager:
Rewards Affiliates – ReneeBest Overall Affiliate Manager:
Rewards Affiliates – Renee
In the 2008 CAP Awards we were winners of the following awards:
Best Casino Affiliate Program – Rewards Affiliates
Best Affiliate Manager – ReneeTo ensure your vote counts, get your vote in now at http://www.CAPAwards.com
ATTENTION ALL POKER AFFS – New Poker DL Codes
A heads up to all the affs promoting our poker brands – the download codes for these brands have changed. Unfortunately they will need to be updated ASAP.
We will be able to hold the old ones until Friday October 10. After this date, the old codes will no longer work.
To get the new codes, please log into the aff site: Marketing Tools > Download Code.New Sign up Bonus at Zodiac Casino
In order to vary the offers at each property to ensure the best conversions, we have updated the offer at Zodiac Casino.
New players will now receive $10 free + $100 free with their first deposit of $100.
Banners are available now on the Rewards Affiliates site, with more to follow in the coming weeks.New $1500 Free Promotion at Golden Tiger Casino
To compliment the release of 5 new languages on the Golden Tiger Casino website, we have just launched a $1500 FREE at Golden Tiger Casino promotion.
This offer works exactly like the regular free spins offers, only instead of $500 free, the player now gets $1500 Free!
Banners can be found in English, Danish and French. More will be uploaded moving forward. If you have any ideas for a banner for this new promotion, please be sure to email us.CAP Euro: Barcelona!
The team at Rewards Affiliates would like to thank everyone who came to visit us during the conference. We really enjoyed meeting you all and can’t wait to see you at the next conference!
BTW, if you managed to get a pic with our famous giant cheque, please send me an email so I can forward through the pic
thank you very much bc4U :hattip:
@tryme1 185158 wrote:
And, purely from a self-interested perspective, I hope to continue to align my online gaming sites with the winners, not those companies that keep running scared everytime there is a setback.
My intention is not to pick a fight – however if a group like CR decide to pull out then you can be assured that the impact on there bottom line will way outweigh any potential ‘loss of face’ from our Affiliate community.
You should also be wary of those that DO stay within the US (casino environment, not so much poker) – because far from being ‘winners’ those that do stay are more likely than not, groups that can not afford to otherwise, would be operating almost entirely with one eye on the door/law and would/will be the first to close up shop in a hurry if the DOJ or his mates come knocking.
IMHO – Yes stick to your guns and pile your trade within the US, however those that don’t diversify, work on EU facing traffic (even if you just have a fall back) run the risk of being left high and dry by those perceived ‘winners’ that stay within the US.
I had to look up exactly what I meant by ‘winners’, because I posted that nearly three weeks ago!
Trader, you make some good points and I have to say that I agree with most of them, but it seems that Microgaming’s decision to pull out completely from the USA is something of a knee-jerk reaction to events in Kentucky and it is in that context I made my post.
