iTunes Affiliate Program

[DenVog]

Does anyone have experience with the iTunes Affiliate Program that they are willing to share? I have been through the FAQ, but still have some questions. For example, can you use the Link Builder links from within an iPhone application to launch the iTunes Music Store? It seems like the phone is very particular about how URLs are formed to launch the App Store.

If this works, it seems like an interesting way to not only earn 5%, but to quantify how many purchases are made from within your application. If there is another way to do this, I am not aware of it.

Thanks.

[rpstro02]

is it possible to have affiliatized app store links go directly to the app store?

[Jlakes]

Originally Posted by DenVog

Does anyone have experience with the iTunes Affiliate Program that they are willing to share? I have been through the FAQ, but still have some questions. For example, can you use the Link Builder links from within an iPhone application to launch the iTunes Music Store? It seems like the phone is very particular about how URLs are formed to launch the App Store.

If this works, it seems like an interesting way to not only earn 5%, but to quantify how many purchases are made from within your application. If there is another way to do this, I am not aware of it.

Thanks.

Yes, you can use the affiliate links inside the app. They will bounce you to safari, place your tracking code, then open up the iTunes Store app.

The formating of the URL is to include the necessary tracking information to ensure you get paid.

You can further place tracking code inside the affiliate links to get even more info back about the links being clicked.

And yes, the 5% starts to add up. I know of a few websites that make some decent money from the iTunes Affiliate Program.

Let me know if you have any more questions.

[pofak]

Search this forum. There is a way so the click goes directly to iTunes without the Safari redirect.

[Jlakes]

Originally Posted by pofak

Search this forum. There is a way so the click goes directly to iTunes without the Safari redirect.

And the affiliate tracking code still goes through the affiliate network no problem?

Is it by using a webview inside the app?

I will definitely keep searching. Thanks for the heads up.

[Narender Mudgal]

I am little bit confused with it, any how it is going to redirect to itunes so how we will be managing the states for the user and the Owner like which user have purchased what? and User also can see last purchased items? is there any way to do this.