So I go to Majorca for a holiday and whilst I’m away topping up my tan and enjoying Pina Colada’s on the beach followed by seeing way too many replays of Nicki Minaj singing about starships in bars, all hell breaks loose and Linden Lab decide to end their affiliate program!
I don’t know why they’ve done this, it may be to do with the Steam connection, or it may be that it wasn’t very successful, either way you have until the end of business today to remove those links, LL sent out a nice email about this:
Dear Linden Lab Affiliate,
Linden Lab would like to thank you for your participation in our affiliate program. Unfortunately, we have made a business decision to suspend our Affiliate Program with LinkShare.
We will pay for commissions earned on Net Orders received through an affiliate link based on the terms of our Agreement, plus any earned outstanding payments currently owned to affiliates. Affiliates sales commissions will not accrue after October 16, 2012. If you have changed your contact information, please update your profile at LinkShare so you can receive your final commission check in a timely manner.
Pursuant to our Affiliate Agreement between Linden Lab/Second Life and you, this shall serve as our formal written notice to terminate our Linden Lab/Second Life Affiliate Agreement. Per our Agreement, you are required to remove any and all banners, buttons, text links, product images and store fronts that link to Linden Lab/Second Life by End of Business Day October 16, 2012. If you have any questions regarding this matter, please contact us.
Once again, we thank you for supporting the Affiliate Program and appreciate your compliance with these termination provisions.
Sincerely,
Linden Lab
The email was sent on October 10th, so it’s pretty short notice but Linden Lab didn’t promote their affiliate program that well, so maybe it wasn’t used by many folks.However, Linden Lab do still seem to be using general Google Adsense for advertising, I’ve seen a Second Life advert in the general adsense stream today, maybe that will end today too.
Onwards and upwards anyway, now back to scouring YouTube for not at all holiday songs!
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