The affiliate program offers a number of powerful tools to fully integrate iTunes, App Store, iBookstore, and Mac App Store links and content into your web site or app. These tools are discussed and documented here to help you fully leverage the affiliate program.
March 26, 2012
We are excited to announce two new widgets to our Widget Builder, App List and Book List. The new widgets focus on curation of great content in both our App Store and the iBookstore. These widgets, similar to iTunes...
February 20, 2012
For our partners developing iPhone applications, the iOS team has just recently updated documentation for QA1629 Launching the App Store from an iPhone application. This update includes a new code listing for processing iTunes Affiliate links without first launching Safari....
December 19, 2011
The holidays are a very busy time for iTunes and the App Store. As a result, some affiliate tools and reports are not available during this time to ensure maximum resources for mission critical aspects of the store. The affiliate...
December 13, 2011
We are excited to announce two new affiliate programs have been added for Brazil and Mexico. These programs will offer a five percent commission over 72 hours on sales from the iTunes Store, App Store, Mac App Store and iBookstore...
October 25, 2011
We are excited to announce the addition of five new widgets to our Widget Builder. These new widgets focus on books, TV shows and movies and include a Book Discovery, Book Search, TV Discovery, Movie Discovery, and a TV...
October 20, 2011
October is Country Music Month as first designated by the Country Music Association in 1964 and made official by Presidential proclamation beginning in 1970. It's intended as a time to celebrate America's music. Leading up to the CMA Awards in...
September 28, 2011
We are excited to announce the launch of affiliate programs in Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Greece, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, and Slovenia today. These 15 new programs will commission on sales from the iTunes...
September 26, 2011
Thank you to those who have tried our new widgets on their websites and blogs. We've received hundreds of emails with screen shots of great placements, questions about optimizing their use, and suggestions for improvements. We are excited by the...
September 09, 2011
With over 65,000 TV episodes, iTunes has the hottest dramas and the most hilarious comedies on television. Full episodes are available commercial-free and in stunning HD. This fall, be a part of the buzz around new shows like Terra Nova...
August 05, 2011
The five, recently released interactive widgets for the iTunes and App Store have been added for 17 additional storefronts, including France, Germany, Ireland, Belgium, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Luxembourg, Portugal, Greece, Spain, Norway, Italy, Austria, Switzerland, and Mexico. Localized...
July 12, 2011
Two updates were recently made to the Search API for software related results. These include noting if an app is Universal and the inclusion of a new value. The new value added is labeled "features" and will include elements representing...
June 29, 2011
In the month of July, be part of the action as more than 60 artists perform 31 consecutive nights of live music at the iTunes Festival in London. Headliners include Foo Fighters, Linkin Park, Coldplay, Paul Simon, Duran Duran and...
June 09, 2011
We are happy to announce the addition of five new interactive widgets for iTunes and the App Store. These new widgets make it very easy to add a store search box or customized playlists to your website or blog to...
June 05, 2011
Join the affiliate team at WWDC 2011 for a lab session on Tuesday morning. Tue 9:00am - 11:15am Location: Internet and Web Lab Track: Internet & Web Platform: iOS, Mac See how to use the affiliate program link to the...
June 02, 2011
The last three months have seen significant additions to the affiliate program. Join LinkShare for a web seminar with Jesse Lakes (Global Product Manager) and Mark Talia (US Program Manager) as they discuss these recent additions and talk about best...
May 12, 2011
Below is an update about recent updates to affiliate program terms and conditions. Section 2 of the Affiliate Terms and Conditions has been revised to clarify proper use of the iTunes song and music video previews. These previews are only...
April 26, 2011
A standard for identifying books around the world, the ISBN is also a great identifier when working with the iBookstore. Partners can use 13 digit ISBN numbers to perform look up queries using the Search API as well as easily...
April 18, 2011
We are excited to announce the addition of the iBookstore to the affiliate program. Partners now have tools to create top charts and build deep links to specific books on the iBookstore. Affiliate partners will receive commission on all qualifying...
March 18, 2011
For our partners using LinkShare in the US and Canada there is a great set of tools to help create commissionable links without having to log into the LinkShare Dashboard. The LinkShare Bento Box On the LinkShare Bento Box page...
March 07, 2011
We are excited to announce the addition of the Mac App Store to the affiliate program. You can now create affiliate links to compelling apps on the Mac App Store, and receive a commission on all qualifying sales over the...
March 01, 2011
Please note that the song file in the EPF Relational feed is quickly growing to a size where the zip archiving format will no longer be able to compress it. As a result, this feed will be discontinued in the...
February 04, 2011
The Search API has recently been updated to include new information for TV shows, movies and apps. App results will now include information about an apps rating inside the store. This includes the Average User Rating ("averageUserRating") and the number...
January 31, 2011
The RSS Feed Generator is the ideal tool for including dynamic and constantly updating iTunes and App Store content on your site or app. There are a wide range of feeds available including those for most popular, new and recently...
January 25, 2011
Please note that we will be completing our migration of the EPF host from itmsdav.apple.com to feeds.itunes.apple.com this week. After this week access to itmsdav.apple.com will be disabled. The original migration announcement can be found in the Affiliate Resource Blog....
December 22, 2010
The holidays are a very busy time for iTunes and the App Store. As a result, some affiliate tools and reports are not available during this time to ensure maximum resources for mission critical aspects of the store. The affiliate...
December 22, 2010
Updated on 4/2/2012 - Updated example link to use new Search API format. Updated on 5/11/2011 - Added information about revised Ts & Cs. Updated on 12/22/2010 - Added information about regional availability. Incorporating 30 second song previews is a...
December 20, 2010
The RSS Feed Generator has recently been updated with three new feed types specifically for apps. The three new feeds include "New Apps," "New Free Apps," and "New Paid Applications." As the name implies these new feeds provide information about...
November 18, 2010
Thank you to everyone that dialed-in to participate in the recent webinar about iTunes & App Store Affiliate Program Overview. A few follow up items: The slides, as a PDF are available to download. Also, LinkShare has the webinar, recorded...
November 12, 2010
New affiliate badges are now available. We encourage you to download the zip file, read through the Identity Guidelines, and replace your old iTunes badges as soon as possible. Redesigned Download on iTunes, Get it Free on iTunes, Subscribe on...
November 08, 2010
Join us, in conjunction with LinkShare, for a webinar: "iTunes & App Store Affiliate Program Overview". During this hour long web seminar the following topics will be discussed: Publisher Tools Publisher Best Practices Frequently Asked Questions Available Resources If you...
October 20, 2010
We would like to inform you about recent changes in the iTunes and App Store affiliate program terms and conditions. A few of the changes are highlighted below: More information for App developers who use the affiliate program. More Information...
October 05, 2010
While the end result is the same--a published playlist inside iTunes with the option to buy songs individually or all together--there are two different ways to go about creating an iMix. The first is to build a playlist in your desktop...
September 14, 2010
I wanted to post a note to remind you all that it is important to refresh your database of iTunes links on a semi regular basis to ensure that you are not providing broken links and are optimizing your affiliate...
July 22, 2010
It is important to note you should be migrating away from itmsdav.apple.com and onto feeds.itunes.apple.com as soon as possible. While you may still be able to access the itmsdav.apple.com server until August 15, 2010 we will no longer guarantee it's...
July 13, 2010
The Enterprise Partner Feed will have new fields added to improve the the availability of screenshots for the iPad. This update includes the addition of a first_ipad_screenshot_url field to the EPF-Flat application files. The update will also include eight new...
July 07, 2010
A new tool, EPFImporter, is being introduced to help Enterprise Partner Feed users import the EPF-Relational and EPF-Flat feeds into a MySQL database. The tool, written in Python and run from the command line, can be modified to be used...
June 30, 2010
Session 133, "Using iTunes and App Store Affiliate Tools and Technologies," at the 2010 World Wide Developers Conference went off without a hitch. With hundreds of developers present, the iTunes Store software engineer responsible for writing most of the affiliate...
June 19, 2010
Affiliate partners, with access to the Enterprise Partner Feed, will find a new format of the iTunes and App Store metadata now available for use - country and media type specific flat files. Named EPF-Flat, this format is aimed towards...
June 07, 2010
PLEASE NOTE: This issue has now been fixed. To Affiliate Partners using LinkShare and LinkShare Japan - We wanted to let you know that we are currently looking into an issue which began on approximately 5/21/10, wherein reports using LinkShare's...
June 04, 2010
Please join us at the Worldwide Developers Conference 2010 in San Francisco next week for the "Using iTunes & App Store Affiliate Tools and Technologies" session at 3:15pm on Thursday, June 10. The presentation will be held in the Russian...
June 04, 2010
(This blog post is intended for active EPF users) There are a few new developments we would like to alert you to. The first is that we have released an updated feed that now includes links to the 30 second...
May 17, 2010
The affiliate program does not allow you to drill down to see what specific items are sold, but you can get an overview of the type or category of products you sell. You can also look at the sales productivity...
May 07, 2010
We have some great new support documents to help you create affiliate links. Here is an overview of what you can find in the resource section: An overview of tools partners have to create affiliate links: Tools for Building Affiliate...
April 07, 2010
The hardest working tool in the iTunes & App Store Affiliate Program is the Link Maker Tool. One of the original tools to be introduced to the program it is also the easiest way for affiliates to create custom deep...
April 01, 2010
The Search API is the easiest advanced affiliate tool to start using and is the logical next step for sites looking to implement an automated way to generate links. This affiliate tool works by submitting a query into Apple as...
March 23, 2010
The Enterprise Partner Feed, known as the "EPF", is a data feed of every piece of meta data in the iTunes and App Store. This advanced tool is available to partners who need programmatic access to a large amount of...
March 23, 2010
The iTunes and App Store logos are recognized worldwide and using them correctly is an important part of being an affiliate partner. A few simple guidelines can go a long way in helping your partnership in the affiliate program: You...
March 23, 2010
Welcome to the iTunes & App Store Affiliate resource site! Our goal with this combination of blog and resource center is to provide in-depth technical documentation to help you better leverage affiliate tools and to provide up to date news...
These tools require an account. Apply below.
EPF is a full meta data datafeed of the iTunes and App Store content. It requires knowledge of ingesting large (multiple GB) files, building and maintaining relational databases, and SQL, so is intended for technically savvy users.
To request an account, send us an email including contact information (name, company name and email) for the main account holder. Also, include short description of your intended use of the data feed.
Use the Web iMix to build an in-store shopping cart on iTunes that can be built dynamically to form your website. This tool is for tech savvy users. To request set up, send us an email including your name, company name, email, and intended use.
We appreciate the feedback and will include answers to frequently asked questions in the blog posts.
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