Shockwave.com Announces Affiliate Program to Offer the Online Community a Share in Shockwave's Success
Broad Game Offering Makes Affiliate Program a Natural for Many Websites
San Francisco, CA, September 29, 2005 - AtomShockwave today announced the launch of its Shockwave.com™ affiliate program, designed to reward online game sites, gaming enthusiasts, blogs and web publishers for helping users find fun games to play on Shockwave.com. Combined already high consumer interest—more than a third of the Internet population visits a gaming site every month*— Shockwave.com's broad array of games from action to puzzles to brain teasers, makes Shockwave.com's affiliate program a natural fit and new revenue stream for publishers who want to provide good entertainment options to their users.
"We are excited to launch this affiliate program to help entertainment, gaming and general interest websites take part in our success," said Dave Williams, chief marketing officer AtomShockwave. "Shockwave.com has a large collection of action and mind games for all audiences, so we expect a broad set of websites will be well suited to becoming our affiliates."
Shockwave's program will reward sites whose users sign up for a free trial of GameBlast, Shockwave's award-winning game subscription service, purchase a subscription or purchase a downloadable game. With over 250 games that appeal to young adults, kids and women, Shockwave.com already attracts a diverse audience of more than 20 million users per month.
GameBlast™—the Best Way to Play
GameBlast is Shockwave.com's premier subscription service, packed with close to 200 premium games. Features include no time limits on downloadable games, full-screen play on online games, no ads throughout the site or in game play, and exclusive hits. GameBlast was voted the 'Best Games Service 2005' by Digital Hollywood.
Program Details
A special promotion through October 31 will offer affiliates an opportunity to earn a 15 percent commission on games sales and up to $13 for a new GameBlast subscriber (included is an $8 commission just for a free trial sign-up). Managed by LinkShare, Shockwave.com's program will offer trusted tracking tools and enable users to choose between banners and text links and even request site-specific banners. Web managers interested in signing up for the Shockwave.com affiliate program can join at no cost at http://www.shockwave.com/sw/affiliates
About Shockwave.com & GameBlast
Shockwave.com (www.shockwave.com) is the world's leading destination for online games, serving a large, loyal audience the best in free interactive entertainment since 1998. GameBlast (www.gameblast.com) is the premium service of Shockwave.com, offering subscribers more than 200 premium online and downloadable games in all categories - action-packed arcade-style games, jigsaws and puzzle games, multiplayer games, and more. Shockwave.com and GameBlast are services of San Francisco-based AtomShockwave Corp.
Shockwave.com and GameBlast are trademarks of AtomShockwave, Corp. All other trademarks mentioned in this document are the property of their respective owners.
*Nielsen//NetRatings June 2005.
