Press Release | 2009-08-17
Intershop embraces extended BVDW Code of Conduct
- Voluntary agreement of BVDW for Affiliate Marketing extended by minimal standards for Post-View Campaigns
- Intershop Communications Online Marketing GmbH signs Code of Conduct and advocates for compliance with these standards
Jena, August 17, 2009 – The Intershop Communications Online Marketing GmbH has signed the extended Code of Conduct for Affiliate Marketing of the “Bundesverbandes Digitale Wirtschaft (BVDW)”, the national organization of online business. Intershop Online Marketing GmbH commits itself to complying with fixed minimal standards and conditions when implementing post view campaigns. Additionally, our contract partners are to agree to these regulations, as well. According to the extensions for post view campaigns, only specially approved advertising material must be deployed.
Lars Rabe, CEO of Intershop Communications Online Marketing GmbH states: „In a highly competitive and fast growing segment of performance based display advertisement an important step has been taken to assure fairness, and thus, to maintain integrity of the industry. Now it is up to the market participants to actively contribute to and abide by the qualitative standards, and to further develop them.”
About Intershop
Intershop Communications AG (founded in Germany 1992; Prime Standard: ISH2) is a leading provider of comprehensive state-of-the-art e-commerce solutions. Intershop offers high-performance packaged software for internet sales, complemented by all necessary services including comprehensive online marketing consulting and a transaction platform for order-, supplier-, product- and channel management from its daughter companies SoQuero and TheBakery. Intershop also acts as a business process outsourcing provider, covering all aspects of online retailing, including fulfillment. Around the globe more than 500 enterprise customers, including HP, BMW, Deutsche Telekom, and Mexx run Intershop solutions. Intershop is headquartered in Jena, Germany, and has offices in the United States, Europe, and Australia.
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