Affiliate Marketing Blog

Affiliate marketing news and opinion from Shawn Collins, co-founder of Affiliate Summit.

  • Home
  • About Shawn
  • Contact
  • Learn Affiliate Marketing
  • Disclosure
  • Archives

Amazon Affiliate Banner Ads Must Be Updated by July 31, 2015

July 26, 2015 by Shawn Collins

Amazon has sent a handful of emails to affiliates to give a heads up that they are making a platform change that will require updates to the affiliate code for some older product links, banners, and widgets.

Amazon is changing their affiliate tracking platform.

The deadline to make the changes is July 31, 2015. The affected ad units will no longer be supported after July 31, 2015.

The good news is that text links are not impacted by this change.

Since I like to live on the edge, I have been pushing this task to the future for a while, but I finally took care of it with five days to spare.

Fortunately, Amazon has a page for affiliates with the URLs that have ad units that need to be updated, and then the new code is a click away.

Starting August 1, 2015, any remaining links (text + image, image-only), banners, and widgets that are listed in the affiliate interface to change will be served with non-clickable public service announcements that will not send traffic to Amazon.

On September 1, 2015, these legacy ad units will no longer render, so they will result in a broken link on your site.

Share this:

  • Twitter
  • LinkedIn
  • Facebook
  • Reddit

Related

Filed Under: Affiliate News

Shawn includes advertising links in some posts - these do not influence the content, and they promote products and services he uses.

Social

  • View shawncollins’s profile on Facebook
  • View shawncollins’s profile on Twitter
  • View shawncollinsatx’s profile on Instagram
  • View affiliatetip’s profile on Pinterest
  • View shawncollins’s profile on LinkedIn
  • View affiliatetip’s profile on YouTube

Blogroll

  • Affiliate Manager
  • Austin FC
  • Austin, TX Airbnb
  • Bose Hearing Aids
  • Extra Money Answer
  • Movies That Affected My Life
  • This is Affiliate Marketing

Return to top of page

Copyright © · Shawn Collins Consulting ·