Affiliate vs Sponsor?!
 

What do you call affiliate / sponsor programs? These two words are used all the time to mean the same thing, which do you prefer to call them?

Affiliate Program

I call them sponsors.

If I'm working with a program, they're a 'sponsor'; if I'm speaking about someone whose doing the marketing as a contractor, that's an 'affiliate.'

What he said.... :2 cents:

Yup that's my :2 cents: also

Affiliate program

On a case by case basis :)

If someone calls an affiliate program, or a sponsor an "affiliate", I generally want to smack them upside the head and tell them to get their wiring checked. Pet peeve.

So what do you call an affiliate?

sponsor programs - from one sponsor to another

affiliate programs - from one webmaster to another

:thumbsup

I call them the-people-who-put-food-on-my-table.

Eigther Sponsor or Affiliate program.

Just not affiliate on it's own.. like in "looking for affiliates to promote".. that just shows having no clue :1orglaugh

An affiliate.

To me:

Sponsor program = Program sponsoring... events, ad buys, direct traffic.

Affiliate Program = Program using affiliate based marketing methods, paying affiliate websites for sales sent, etc.

Affiliate = Owner of website sending sales to an outside website... Could be a blog, could be a member's area, could be a website network.

A sponsor will most likely have an affiliate program and many affiliates will join the
sponsor and promote the sponsor's product.

same here.