Ticketmaster Affiliate Program Review
Posted by Mike | Filed under Affiliate Programs
Last month I decided to try Ticketmaster for my Hawaii blog. I post a lot of events that happen in Hawaii each month and it made sense to sign up with Ticketmaster. I had some results, but not high earnings.
Anyone who buys tickets has likely heard of Ticket Master. They are one of the largest online sellers of tickets for sporting events, entertainment shows and more. If you run a website that promotes events I recommend looking at Ticketmaster’s affiliate program. It is run by Buyat.
Ticketmaster Interface
If you use Google Adsense, you will find the Ticketmaster affiliate area much more complex and not as user friendly. When you first log in you will get the current’s month statistics for your website clicks and sales. That is where the simplicity ends. Generating banners is not as user friendly as other affiliate programs I have used like Google Adsense and Commission junction.
Earnings
Unless you have a site with a lot of traffic, don’t expect to earn a ton of money. On average I average I earned about $1 per ticket sale. For the first 2 weeks on August I had 472 clicks returning 12 sales. From that I earned $11 based off $781.50 in sales. My Hawaii Blog gets about 12,000 to 18,000 unique visitors each month, so it gets some traffic, but it is far from a popular, known blog. I also didn’t post a lot of events in August. Having said that, receiving a measly 2.5% commission rate is not great.
Recommendations
If you run a small blog with little traffic stay away from Ticketmaster’s affiliate program. The code that you embedd on your site tends to slow down your pages. If you have a popular site and don’t mind a little slowness I recommend using the affiliate program if you are not having success with other affiliate programs. Here are my recommendations for using the program.
- Post informational articles about an upcoming even that is at least two weeks away
- Embed the Ticketmaster code into each article. Forget about having a simple Ticketmaster banner on your site. It won’t get clicked!
- Submit your articles to these seven social media sites to gain tons of traffic and helping your article rank well in Google and yahoo
Thank you for the post. I’ll stay away from Ticketmaster’s affiliate program, as my blog is still a baby.
Does not look too promising, I mean all that fantastically useful/profitable for not specific content website. It seems like everyone has an affiliate network now, bluh… It’s like franchising but without the really awesome returns. Or am I wrong?
Seems not a good opportunity for new blog. I don’t understand how it could slow down a page. Is it because the script?
You don’t post anything for almost a month…Busy Mike? Maybe you think that I’m one of your reader who always annoying when there is no new post
… Don’t get mad to me. It means I visit your blog regularly, right 
?