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Buy.at have started a great mobile phone affiliate incentive today called mobile mania.

The competition gives anyone on their affiliate network the chance to win up to £3,000 by promoting at least 3 of the 9 mobile affiliate programs from 3 Mobile, Carphone Warehouse, Dial-a-Phone, O2, oneStopPhoneShop, T-Mobile, The Phone Spot, Virgin Mobile & Vodafone during the period 11th February - 6th April.

To win you will need to increase your mobile contract applications over the next two months. The biggest % increases in contract applications will win one of the prizes.

The affiliate competition has been split into three groups to make it fair for everyone with the group you fall into dependent on the number of mobile contract applications you have sent in the last two months.

Group 1; 0 - 50 applications – prize of £1,000.
Group 2: 51 - 100 applications – prize of £2,000.
Group 3; 101 + applications – prize of £3,000.

The winner of each group will be the person that makes the biggest % increase in the total number of applications they submit and if you have sent less than ten mobile phone applications in the previous two months then you will have a starting rate set at 10 sales.

AOL have announced that they have acquired the independent UK affiliate network buy.at which will now operate as a stand alone business of Advertising.com, which is a part of AOL’s Platform-A organization.

Buy.at believes the planned investment will allow them to continue its growth in staff, technology and infrastructure to maintain and even grow its offerings of products and services.

“Advertising.com and buy.at will be able to expand their advertiser offerings, driving more revenue opportunities for affiliate publishers who specialise in both e-commerce websites and retail focused content. This will help to generate sales for advertisers and increased revenue for publishers. Publishers will be able to work with Advertising.com and buy.at across several product lines, earning revenue for inventory across their display, video, mobile, and affiliate channels”

Buy.at has offices in London & Newcastle in the UK and New York in the U.S. They employ around 70 people and offer affiliate marketing in both the UK and the U.S. with over 200 leading businesses as its clients including 3 Mobile, The AA, Argos, BT, Carphone Warehouse, E.ON, HMV, John Lewis, Littlewoods, M&S, MBNA, o2, Sky, Tesco & Viirgin Media.

Advertising.com also has operations in the U.S. and ten other countries including nine in Europe.

For more details see the buy.at press release here.