Smoking Dogs Media is a partnership between David Podmajersky, who publishes DistantCousin.com, and Steve Johnson, who publishes Clear Digital Media, Inc.

The duo had been friends since the Summer of 1999, when the two traded e-mail threads on affiliate marketing. They launched their first website together on December 3, 2003 with Death-Records.net, an affiliate marketing website. In the months following, three more affiliate marketing sites, Marriage Records, Death Certitficates, and US Census Records, were launched.

On November 3, 2004, the two guys launched their first blog, Political Dogs, the day following the Presidential Election, after witnessing the effect bloggers had on the campaign process.

Up until October 2005, the partnership had been operating without an identity. Thus, the name "Smoking Dogs Media" was coined, after the logo used on the Political Dogs website.

Business Philosophy

Smoking Dogs Media was originally founded on the idea of combining talents to achieve exceptional results, and will continue on that theme, either by finding new ways to get more performance out of blogging, explore new topics for blogs, find new ways to leverage affiliate marketing programs and advertising networks.