a4uAwards, Jason Manford and Record Entries

Our third annual Affiliate Marketing Awards takes place in around three weeks at the Park Lane Hilton Hotel.

Today we’ve been to choose the all important wine, champagne and 3 course dinner - 14 courses, half a dozen glasses of wine and a few champagne flutes later we finally got there with our choice, but must say struggled to get out of our seats!

It’s really exciting to see the venue again, meet up with the A/V company who will be putting the production together and see the event taking shape again.

Entries are 20% up this year, and the 12 or so Industry Judges which this year includes new vertical experts Kevin May the editor of Travolution, Ian Jindal from Internet Retailing and Michael Casselli editor of iGaming magazine. Other judges include Gareth Jones editor of Revolution Magazine and Industry veteran Shawn Collins with an International angle from Affiliate Summit.

All of the judges have some serious work to do next week to rattle the entries down to just one winner and highly commended entrant.

I must say from reading a few dozen already the quality has jumped significantly from last year, a great testament to the quality and progression the affiliate marketing industry is making.

On Monday the final round of voting for the Publishers and Community choice awards open - with all finalists under strict instructions to embargo any announcements until 10am - these special awards chosen by the affiliates themselves hold a special regard with many as they come direct from the roots of the affiliate sector.

It’s not too late to join the 400+ creme of the Affiliate Marketing Industry who will be attending the awards on the 2nd of June 2009 which will be hosted this year by award winning comedian Jason Manford.

Contact us for details on how to book a table or grovel to one of our sponsors for a ticket!

We hope to see you there.