This is a short post with some research I’ve been doing into affiliate sites. Not much information to add other than I wish I started these sites and I wish I’d bought uswitch in 2006.
I can’t see auto generated shopping sites having much value since they rely too heavily on Google but the others are going from strength to strength. Confused.com has even been able to switch away from getting paid for sales and now gets paid for every quote instead!
Valued at £1 billion
Valued at £700 million
Sold for £210 million in March 2006
Sold to Yahoo for £318 million in 2004
Sold to eBay for £300 million in June 2005
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