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Events

Earth Day 2025: Creating Authentic Action with Affiliate Partnerships

In a world where consumers increasingly vote with their wallets, Earth Day 2025 presents a pivotal opportunity for brands and publishers alike. This isn't just another marketing moment. It's a chance to demonstrate an authentic commitment to sustainability.
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Insights

Announcing the Rakuten Advertising 2025 Preferred and Platinum Agency Partners

From award-winning customer support to innovative technology, the Rakuten Advertising Agency Support team has one goal in mind for our agency partnerships – success. Our Agency Services Program provides our affiliate agency partners with the necessary solutions, tools, and support to fuel consistent growth for their clients. These agency partnerships continue to move the industry […]
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Events

Key highlights from DealMaker Canada 2024

DealMaker Canada was a smashing success with a record-breaking number of top advertisers, publishers, and agencies coming together for 2 days of networking, discussions, and fun. Attendees enjoyed a day full of meetings, insightful content, and dealmaking in our last DealMaker event of the year. Read the full blog now to hear more!
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News

Announcing the Rakuten Advertising 2024 Preferred and Platinum Agency Partners

Our Agency Support team is consistently striving for success - from our award-winning customer support teams to our innovative technology, this team supports the success of our agency partners. The Agency Services Program provides our affiliate agency partners with innovative tools and solutions to fuel consistent growth for their clients.
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Marketing Strategies

Time to Fix Your Buying Funnel #4: The “Where is It?” Funnel

Brands can’t succeed in today’s business climate without capitalizing on every opportunity for growth. We need to deploy integrated approaches that impact the full funnel – influencing impact at every step of the customer journey. But what happens if your prospects and customers get lost on the way to conversion? What if they stop progressing toward purchase?
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Insights

Navigating GA4: Updated Insights for Affiliate Advertisers

Since our last post on GA4's implications for affiliate marketing, we’ve continued investigating and adapting to the evolving landscape of attribution models. Our latest findings reveal nuances in how GA4 processes sessions and events, significantly impacting how affiliate conversions are credited. This update delves into these discoveries and offers actionable advice for advertisers navigating this new reality.
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Time to Fix Your Buying Funnel #3: The Funky Hourglass Funnel

This is the third post in our “Time to Fix Your Funnel” series that identifies ways to help partnership marketers improve program performance. In the competitive world of affiliate advertising, a brand's success hinges on a program that guides customers seamlessly from awareness to purchase.

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Time to Fix Your Buying Funnel #2: The Clogged Sink Funnel

This is the second post in our “Time to Fix Your Funnel” blog series on strategies for partnership leaders to drive more growth through full-funnel affiliate programs. Affiliate marketing success relies on a smooth customer journey from awareness to purchase. Brands increasingly find value in affiliates that can impact every stage of this journey, not just the final sale.

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Time to Fix Your Affiliate Buying Funnel #1: The “Blown Out Umbrella”

In the competitive affiliate advertising landscape, it’s critical for a brand to have a program that carries the customer from awareness to the finish line of conversion—from the top of their customer journey or buying funnel to the magic moment they click “buy now.”

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The Affiliate Marketing Shopper Part 2: Loyalty Shoppers

We recently performed a comprehensive 18-month study, surveying 15,000+ online shoppers on their habits when buying online, with a focus on online coupons and rewards, cashback sites, budget planning, and online shopping behaviours. In the second part of our three-part series, we explore the loyalty and reward shoppers and what they really value.

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The Always-On Luxury Shopper: Affiliate Marketing Strategies

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The luxury shopping market continues to remain a key retail focal point despite economic headwinds. Our latest blog analyzes the luxury shopper, explores specific luxury shopping destinations, and provides tips and tricks on how best to leverage different affiliate marketing strategies to reach your ideal luxury consumer. Read the entire blog now to learn more!

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GA4 and Affiliate Marketing: How to Navigate Changing Attribution Models

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Uncover the seismic shift in analytics as GA4 takes the stage, altering the game for the affiliate marketing industry. Our latest blog post explores the repercussions of GA4's move from a last-click to a data-driven attribution model. Discover how Rakuten Advertising navigates these changes, offering reliable methodologies, additional tools, and collaborative solutions.

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