Hmmm… while scanning my Eudora for information about Microsoft's adCenter affiliate program, I found this notice – sent February 20th – in the trash bin.
…Unfortunately, the adCenter offer will no longer be available after February 29th, 2008.
Any banner or text ads that you currently have placed and are receiving traffic will still be eligible for payout through February 29th. However, any traffic after this date will no longer be eligible for the coupon or commission payout. As of today, February 20th, no new marketing material will be available to current affiliates and new affiliates will not be able to sign up for the offer.
Final commission payout for any activity through the end of February will be processed and paid out in the month of March as usual. Please be sure to remove all marketing materials associated with this offer from placement by February 29th as you will no longer receive credit for this activity.
Although that's definitely a bummer for affiliates who found adCenter's offer lucrative (it offered $50 in free clicks to those who opened an adCenter account), I'm personally delighted to have found the notice before I ended up sending my visitors to a “Sorry, that offer is no longer valid” page, which happens way more often than I care to admit. 🙂
Anyway, for those affiliates who promote to online marketers, there's still the Yahoo! Search Marketing offer through CJ that pays $30 when your customer signs up for either a new Self Serve or Assisted Setup Account. They get a $25 credit on signup too.