StoreKit and LinkShare

Question

Has anyone been successful it leveraging their LinkShare iTunes Affiliates program with iOS 6 StoreKit SKStoreProductViewController? I had hoped that even if you couldn't use LinkShare Link Maker Tool, you could at least pass the LinkShare Affiliate Token in a URL.

I have seen a couple related posts that suggest that it is not supported, but they are several months old and don't seem definitive. I was hopeful that the status on this had changed.

Logistically, I'm not sure how you could get it to work with the current definitions. While I could test whether various URL open the ProductView, I'm not sure how you'd know if you received credit from LinkShare or not.

Any updates would be appreciated. Thanks.

Note: While a lot of people are using StoreKit to implement In-App Purchase of their own items, I'm actually using it to display / preview / purchase other people's content (e.g. a Rob Zombie album).

Answer 1

There is a recent thread for the AEProductController project, which basically says that the project does not work.

So it looks like that there is currently no way to leverage affiliate programs with SKStoreProductViewController. Everyone who wants that functionality should probably file a Radar to make Apple aware of the request.