Jobster Launches Affiliate Network
Seattle based Jobster has launched an affiliate network, hot on the heels of their Facebook application success. Both the Facebook application and the affiliate network let employers publish their job listings to a wider array of readers. One of the most difficult segments to reach in the employment vertical are the 18-24 year olds which are critical for the retail and hospitality employment categories. The Jobster Facebook application process a great tool to target these younger employees in a social network that where they are actively engaged.
The Jobster affiliate network includes 650 web sites and will provide 45M visitors per month. Its great to see a company promoting monthly visitors instead of the often quoted and completely useless page view statistics. The affiliate network includes the following sites:
- Edgeio – jobs partner for major blogs and job boards including: Techcrunch, Gizmodo and The Washington Post.
- Getit LLC – jobs partner for more than 350 niche job boards including: getcustomerservicejobs.com and nursingjobfinder.com.
- OLX – classifieds partner for social networks like Friendster and many others worldwide.
- JobThread – jobs partner for 300 high-traffic web sites and blogs.
- Impulse Corp – jobs partner for bored.com, findjobs.com, careerramblings.com.
- Cinnamon Entertainment Group – jobs partner for mobilewirelessjobs.com, jobfish.com and others.
The pricing for the affiliate network is an additional $2 per position/candidate or $25/month for unlimited positions. Its not clear what percentage of revenue is shared with the affiliate network partner web sites.
