Marketing Strategies

Rakuten Advertising advertisers and publishers can officially stop running manual reports, and start getting quick answers with Prompt, now available in our dedicated Insights and Analytics Portal.

Diversify your affiliate program and watch your performance soar! Our Q2 Partner Spotlight highlights the innovative up-and-coming publishers on the Rakuten Advertising network.

Diversify your affiliate program and watch your performance soar! Our latest Partner Spotlight highlights the innovative up-and-coming publishers on the Rakuten Advertising network.

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.

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.

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

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.”

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.