LinkShare UK announces 12 new customer partnerships, of which eight are exclusive.

New customers that have joined LinkShare so far in 2008 include British Airways, the business-to-business retailer PC World Business, the international clothing brand UNIQLO, the fashion retailer Lipsy, and Europe’s leading luxury shoe retailer, Kurt Geiger.

Kevin Kozinchik, Sales Director for LinkShare UK, said, “ LinkShare is making great strides in the UK and now have over 50 leading advertisers within our UK network. The twelve high profile customers that joined in the first quarter of 2008 are in addition to the 40 new customers announced at the end of our first year. As advertisers continue to realise the unique value that LinkShare can bring to their business we are increasingly signing exclusive partnerships and migrating existing programs to LinkShare to become their sole affiliate network partner. In fact, over half of our current advertiser partners are exclusive to LinkShare in the UK!"

“With more than a decade of international experience in affiliate marketing we are consistently finding more innovative ways to deliver new and unique value to our customers that they have been unable to find through other UK networks. This includes, but is not limited to, our global affiliate partnerships, our leading advertiser and publisher tools and technologies designed to increase site conversion rates and to protect their brand, and the 10 years of international experience and expertise that LinkShare can bring to a programme.”

LinkShare also credits a large part of its success to a level of client service that is unique to the UK market. This service includes offering customers proactive, strategic and tactical insights into how to best use the detailed data provided by LinkShare to improve brand promotion, leverage emerging media such as social networking, and to increase the traffic and sales throughout the life of a customer’s programme.