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Top Influencer Marketing Trends to Watch in 2025

Get ahead in influencer marketing with the latest insights and global trends evolving the industry. Perfect for marketers ready to amplify their impact and connect authentically with audiences worldwide.
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Marketing Strategies

Future-Focused Tracking Solutions

We're committed to maintaining the highest standards in integration integrity and conversion security. As a leading global network for over 25 years, we navigate the complexities of today's landscape on behalf of our clients and publishers to bring them the most innovative, robust, flexible, and reliable integrations and attribution solutions.
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Marketing Strategies

Discover Rakuten TV Enterprise Services, an interview with Chief Content Officer Marcos Milanez

Rakuten TV's Enterprise Services provides content owners with unique opportunities to reach diverse European audiences through FAST channels and video-centric apps. In collaboration with Rakuten Advertising, this initiative delivers sophisticated targeting and monetisation strategies to advertisers, ensuring more effective and profitable campaigns.
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Spotlight on Rakuten Advertising’s Creative Ads

Generate 30% higher brand preference and 29% increased purchase intent with Creative Ads from Rakuten Advertising. Delivered by Rakuten Advertising’s experienced in-house team, these unique formats help agencies and brands go further on CTV.
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Marketing Strategies

Publisher Spotlight: Brandswap

Brandswap helps retailers unlock fresh streams of revenue through relevant brand partnerships. Read our latest spotlight and hear first-hand how Brandswap is leveraging the affiliate channel to deliver brand to brand partnerships
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News

Google’s reversal on deprecating third-party cookies

While Google’s shift may raise concerns about affiliate marketing, the good news is that it has no impact on Rakuten Advertising’s affiliate tracking technology or the tracking capabilities of our network and partners. Our tracking solutions are built to be robust, effective, and reliable, adapting seamlessly to environmental changes such as these.
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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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Skimlinks Q&A: Affiliate Peak Shopping Strategies

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

Brands can’t succeed in today’s business climate without capitalising 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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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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Google Spam Update and Its Impact on Affiliate Marketing

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The recent update to Google’s Site Reputation Abuse Policy is set to shake up how consumers interact and engage with Voucher and Coupon sites. In this post, we examine the changes and their impact on affiliate marketing.

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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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