Awin

Awin is a performance marketing network. Close to two thousand advertisers, ranging from blue-chip brands, such as Dixons, Boots and Vodafone, to niche retailers like Photobox, Crabtree & Evelyn and Buildstore, across all sectors run programmes through the Awin platform in order to enhance their online presence and build relationships with our extensive publisher base. Awin develops market-leading technology to assist the performance of both advertisers and publishers.

Awin provides:

1. Account management 
2. Comprehensive reporting and management interface
3.  Interactive partner directory
4. Adware, spyware and brand policing solution
5.  M-commerce platform partner
6.  Data-feed partner
7.  Telephone number tracking.

Awin API docs are at http://wiki.awin.com/index.php/Publisher_API and http://wiki.awin.com/index.php/Advertiser_API

How to Connect

There are two ways to connect to Awin: via the Sources connection wizard in the Web UI (recommended), or using SQL statements in the CData Virtuality Studio or the Code Editor in the Web UI. Here, we describe the first way; for the second way, see the subpage.

1. Go to the Sources tab and click + New Source:

2. Find the Awin button in the list of connectors or type ‘awin’ in the search field and select it:

3. Enter the data source name and your access token and click Connect:

Usage 

 The Awin API connector introduces a new virtual schema awin that contains the following stored procedures:

In addition to these public API procedures, there are numerous views in another virtual schema awin_examples that shows an exemplary usage of the public API:

If not needed, you can delete all the example views directly by dropping  awin_examples.