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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. In our latest post, Dave Trolle, founder of digital consultancy and Affiliate Marketing specialists Customer First Digital, introduces some of the most common myths surrounding affiliate marketing and how to bust them. Stay tuned for part two from Dave in the coming weeks!

The first meetings of the Rakuten Advertising International Collective (RAIC) took place a couple of weeks ago.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Affiliate marketing is one of the oldest forms of advertising, yet brands are only just beginning to recognise the channel’s true value.

Rakuten Advertising Named Best Affiliate Network by mThink for 10th Consecutive Year, Marking a Decade as the Chosen Performance Marketing Leader  

Today Rakuten Advertising launches A 5-stage Blueprint for High-Performance Affiliate Marketing. The blueprint provides both advertisers and publishers with insights into the strategic value of affiliate marketing throughout the customer journey.

Over recent years advertisers in the financial service sector have pivoted their marketing strategies online. As the industry navigate this shift, advertisers are increasingly turning to the affiliate channel to reach and engage consumers throughout the sales funnel.

The affiliate industry has changed significantly in the last 5 years. Wind the clock back, and the affiliate channel sat on the periphery of the traditional marketing mix - and if you worked in the channel, it’s likely that explaining what you did to friends and family was met with blank faces.