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With upcoming iOS updates, it's crucial to understand the deep changes affecting the affiliate marketing industry. Our experts share everything you need to get ready for iOS 17 and MacOS Sonoma, including actionable insights based on test scenarios.

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, Matheus Campos, Senior Partnerships Manager at Savings United, outlines the best practices for working with different publisher models.

Make your data work harder. Rakuten Advertising’s award-winning data strategies show how the best of the best outperform with smarter data-led decisions.

Rakuten Advertising’s award-winning affiliate innovation showcases how leading brands Microsoft, MAC and Forever New are outdelivering expectations.

Some would have you believe that affiliate marketing is a bottom-of-the-funnel, last-click strategy for pushing out your latest discounts – technically, that’s not true. Affiliate is a channel proven to help increase conversions and a fantastic way to reach savvy shoppers. But it’s also so much more than that.

The Rakuten Advertising International Collective (RAIC) aims to showcase the strategies and steps that will elevate your affiliate thinking, giving you the tools to outthink the market and deliver campaigns that outperform for your business.

As part of our Publisher Spotlight series, Rakuten Advertising sat down with Tom Brown, CEO and co-founder of Beny, to discuss how the innovative app can help drive incrementality for advertisers.

For advertisers and publishers to be successful this year, they will need to change their thinking and how they run their affiliate programs. Taylor Swift said, “this is a new year. A new beginning. And things will change.” While some see change as scary, we at Rakuten Advertising view it as an opportunity.

As part of our Publisher Spotlight series, Rakuten Advertising recently connected with Geoffrey Lee, Head of Singapore and Indonesia at Linkby. We discussed how Linkby helps brands connect with publishers in multiple markets including Australia, Canada, Malaysia, Singapore, the UK and the US.

Singles’ Day 2022 has come and gone. While China’s e-commerce giants, Alibaba and JD.com, chose not to disclose their sales figures this year—for the first time since Singles’ Day’s inception—our in-house analysts have closely monitored and uncovered trends from across the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region.

In the newest edition of our Publisher Spotlight series, Rakuten Advertising talks tech and spec with Gary Cobain, CEO of PokitPal, to discuss how PokitPal’s card-linked rewards platform has evolved.

November is finally here, bringing with it the start of a retail sales bonanza. However, with a looming recession, some in the industry predict it to be ‘the bleakest Black Friday yet.’