What's Going To Be Big In 2008?

Well obviously not the Euro 2008 tournament - for us anyway. But you should have started to think a few months ago about what you'll be doing in 2008.

I know many affiliates are what I call "process affiliates". These are affiliates that monetise the process of purchasing online, i.e. cashback or price comparison or discount code sites. But there some of us that are "event affiliates". Quite logically we create sites around specific events, such as the launch of new products, sporting events or just (inter)national events.

So if you're the latter, what should you be looking out for? Well here's my list:

• African Cup of Nations
• 2008 Formula 1
• Luna eclipse
• Local Elections
• Eurovision
• Football thingy - don't know what it is :-(
• 2008 Olympics
• Open golf
• Halo Wars - I seriously need to update that site!
  
• Various Mobile Phones
• Launch of HTML5
• Windows Server 2008
• MS Office 2008 for Mac
• Various video games
• Various film launches - Harry Potter etc
• Testosterone Spray
• Laser Tv
  
• iRadio
• The 3g iPhone (Feb?)
• TAG HEUR mobiles
• PSP Phone
• USB Mobiles
• Various new technology launches (I'm not going to name them as I'm "on" some of them!)
• DAB Radios will start to get more integrated with other forms of audio output.
  
• There will be a more appropriate range of domestic robots, such as vacuum cleaners that work autonomously as well as robot lawn mowers. The prices of these will come down gradually over the next few years and apparently there will be a robot in every home my 2010!
• There will be even better MP3 Players such as the Zune Player which will hopefully reach our shores!
• There's the start of the Football World Cup qualifying in Europe!
• It's about time that Mirror TVs started to make their mark in the UK - they've been very slow here to sell any sort of quantity!
• There'll be a whole load of new environmentally friendly gadgets coming out. I just bought my brother a solar-powered mobile phone battery charger for example.
• Homnet - LG's new home networking, product-management sytem m'thingy!
• Xbox Ultimate - what looks to be an abosolutely fantastic games console with iptv and a 320gb hard drive.
• Wowee Robots - there are going to be a massive selection of toy robots out this year. 2007 was a bit light in the selection, but Wowwee have created 6 robots to be launched in 2008. They're launching robot toys like the Rovio and Femisapien that will rock your world!
• I'm going to try and get my cheap Christmas presents online as well. I did ok with a Valentines one, but I'm going to see if I can beat my Easter eggs site for traffic. With such a competitive market its not going to be easy!!
• Holidays in Cuba are going to be huge - you may say that there'll be a decline in foreign holiday. But I think people will be looking for something different!
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You'll have to hunt around for the niche products that are launching - but the effort is nearly always rewarded with very nice returns if you can spot the hot products early enough!