Shawn Collins: Thank you for joining us. Nowadays I am talking with Lily Shen of eBay, and we are gon na be speaking about several of the various elements they're doing together with the affiliate program over there. I want to thank Lily for taking time to talk with us and anticipate hearing what you have to say.
Lily Shen: Thanks, Shawn. I'm certainly excited to talk with you and definitely look forward to sharing some more info. We have a lot of thrilling things going on, yeah, so, undoubtedly looking forward to it.
Shawn: Great. One thing that I'm curious about it, if you could allow me to find out and also the rest of the audience, what sets eBay's Affiliate Program apart from the other affiliate marketing programs which are on the market?
Lily: Sure. I can't really speak for other affiliate programs per se, but I must say the eBay Affiliate Program has a really competitive payout, very easy to work with tools, and the unparalleled range and breadth of products which are currently on eBay.
In terms of the compensation today of ours, we pay out on both ACRUs, what we call Active Nearly Registered Users, and we pay between $12 to twenty two dolars. We also spend on the rev share side between forty to sixty five % of revenues generated to eBay buyer affiliates, and that launched only late last year and it's shown to be successful for many of the publishers of ours.
In terms of the marketplaces, we've an amazing breadth and depth of products with more than 50, 000 categories, and even just in Q3 we'd 584 million new listings added to eBay anywhere. We have got a worldwide presence in more than 33 markets with owners from every country around the world, so we definitely offer an effective playground for the affiliates of ours as well as our publishers to succeed.
Shawn: Great, sounds wonderful. Can you tell me a bit more about some of the tools and materials which eBay has innovated to assist affiliates to succeed?
Lily: Yeah, absolutely. We actually have a separate team here simply taking a look at items, tools, and infrastructure for kiboeclipse.com/ the eBay Affiliate Program. We've a number of tools that our affiliate marketers employ to really get them up and running fast.