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Marketing Strategies

Affiliate Marketing How-To: Ensuring Brand Voice Consistency Across Partners

Maintaining a consistent brand voice across partners is essential for brand marketers looking to scale their programs. This blog explores actionable strategies—and the value of working with a trusted affiliate network like Rakuten Advertising—to ensure your brand’s messaging, values, and reputation remain strong.
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Marketing Strategies

Affiliate Marketing Step-by-Step: 5 Essential Steps to Launch Your Brand’s Affiliate Program

Ready to launch your brand’s affiliate program? This Affiliate Marketing Step-by-Step guide for brand marketers covers everything from setting goals and choosing a platform to recruiting partners and optimizing for growth, including the benefits of affiliate networks and advanced technology. Contact us to get started!
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Marketing Strategies

How Affiliate Tracking Works: The Complete Guide for Brands & Publishers

Learn how affiliate tracking works in partner marketing and why it’s the foundation of performance marketing. Explore tracking links, cookies, attribution models, and reporting systems for accurate results and fair payments.
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Affiliate Marketing Platforms: What Do They Do and Why You Need Them

Affiliate marketing platforms help brands and publishers manage, track, and optimize their affiliate programs. This guide explains the core functions of these platforms and what to look for when choosing a solution.
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Announcing the Rakuten Advertising Agency Partners: 2026 Preferred and Platinum

We’re excited to introduce the 2026 Rakuten Advertising Agency Partners, featuring our newest Preferred and Platinum award recipients. These partnerships set the standard for innovation and growth in affiliate marketing. Discover how working with these standout agencies can help your brand reach new heights this year.
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Marketing Strategies

10 Common Affiliate Marketing Mistakes (and How to Fix Them)

Avoid the pitfalls that hold affiliate marketers back. Learn the 10 most common affiliate marketing mistakes and how to fix them with practical, expert-backed solutions.
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Holiday Shopping Trends 2025: Canadian Cyber Week Showcases Digital Discovery and Gift-Giving Momentum

Explore the leading holiday shopping trends of 2025, as Canadian Cyber Week highlights a surge in digital engagement and evolving consumer preferences. From apparel to gifts and toys, discover how these trends are shaping the retail landscape and what they mean for brands and shoppers in the year ahead.

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What is Affiliate Marketing & How Does it Work?

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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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How Brands Can Launch a Successful Affiliate Marketing Program

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Affiliate Marketing How To for brands: your step-by-step guide to planning objectives, selecting technology, designing commissions, and activating a high-performing partner mix. Learn how to launch and optimize with governance, tracking, and data-driven metrics.

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Affiliate Marketing Insights: 10 Tips to Win the Canadian Holiday Shopping Season

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Affiliate Marketing Insights for Canadian ecommerce brands: Discover how to win the holiday season with a Canada‑first calendar, CAD pricing and duties transparency, published shipping cut‑offs, winter‑ready fulfillment, and a diverse affiliate mix—including cashback, editorial, deal forums, extensions, and creators—plus a Boxing Week plan to drive repeat purchases.

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Rakuten Advertising: Q3 Affiliate Publishers Partner Spotlight

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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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Key Highlights from DealMaker Canada 2025: Leading Canadian Affiliate Events Recap

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DealMaker Canada 2025 was a standout among Canadian affiliate events, bringing together top advertisers, publishers, and agencies for two days of networking, learning, and dealmaking. Read our full recap of this leading affiliate event in Toronto!

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