News

Audience Engine: Making Personalization and Segmentation Simple

We recently sat down with Kyle Fish, Lead Product Manager, Affiliate at Rakuten Advertising, to get the low-down on his team’s latest work set to revolutionize the industry, Audience Engine.
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Marketing Strategies

What is Affiliate Marketing & How Does it Work?

Affiliate marketing is one of the most effective ways brands can drive measurable growth through partnership. Learn what affiliate marketing is, how it works, and why it remains one of the most trusted, performance-driven channels for marketers and publishers alike.
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Marketing Strategies

Outthink and Outperform: Award-Winning Full-Funnel Affiliate Strategies

Rakuten Advertising’s award-winning full-funnel affiliate strategies show how the world's top brands are outperforming throughout the funnel.
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News

Unlock Game-Changing Insights with Affiliate Conversion Journey

Affiliate Conversion Journey is the latest feature to be made available in Rakuten Advertising’s Insights and Analytics Portal. Below, we showcase the game-changing insights available and give real-world examples of how you can use Affiliate Conversion Journey to outdeliver on campaign performance.
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Insights

RAIC Insights: Correctly map the customer journey and identify publisher touchpoints for added value

The latest addition to Rakuten Advertising’s RAIC Insights series sees Simon Bird share his tips on how to correctly map the customer journey.
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Insights

Publisher Spotlight: Linkby

Linkby is a market-first ad tech platform for publishers and advertisers. Read our latest spotlight and hear first-hand how Linkby is helping brands optimize PR alongside the affiliate channel to deliver outstanding results for brands.
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Insights

Publisher Spotlight: Skimlinks

Skimlinks, a Taboola company, is the leading commerce content solution provider for publishers and advertisers. Read our latest spotlight and hear first-hand how Skimlinks is helping brands optimize the conversion journey to deliver outstanding results for brands.
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Marketing Strategies

RAIC Insights: The Importance of a Marketing Strategy for Publishers 

Last month we launched A 5-Stage Blueprint for High-Performance Affiliate Marketing using insights from publishers and advertisers in the Rakuten Advertising International Collective (RAIC). 
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Marketing Strategies

Skimlinks Q&A: Affiliate Peak Shopping Strategies

Following a successful networking event in London last week, we sat down with Dipa Shah, Director of Merchant Development at Skimlinks to get the low down on what you need to know to plan for the 2024 peak shopping period.
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Marketing Strategies

RAIC Insights: Demonstrating How a Strong and Profitable Affiliate Program Delivers Brand Goals

The Rakuten Advertising International Collective (RAIC) aims to showcase the strategies and steps to elevate your affiliate thinking, giving you the tools to outthink the market and deliver campaigns that outperform for your business. In our latest post, Rafael Bonfa, Senior Performance and Affiliate Manager, US and Brazil at Aliexpress, outlines how to get c-suite buy-in for affiliate marketing.
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Publisher Spotlight: TrooVRS
Insights

Publisher Spotlight: Entering the Metaverse with trooVRS

Find out how trooVRS became Rakuten Advertising’s first metaverse-focused partner and where Founder Adrian Whant sees affiliate and the metaverse intersect.
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Marketing Strategies

Rakuten Advertising: Q3 Affiliate Publishers Partner Spotlight

Diversify your affiliate program with our Q3 Affiliate Publishers Spotlight! Discover the most notable and newest affiliate publishers on the Rakuten Advertising network and watch your performance soar.
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