Marketing Strategies

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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News

New Report – Affiliate: The Resilient Revenue Driver

While the past few years may not have been the most stable trading conditions – and uncertainty looking set to continue - one thing that’s been demonstrated is the ability of affiliate marketing to deliver reliable revenue to advertisers and publishers.
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Marketing Strategies

Optimising Affiliate Performance for Key Metrics

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.
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News

Product Update: Affiliate Forecasting 

Do you ever find yourself asking, ‘what would happen if we changed our base commission rate” or how would increasing commission spend affect your program performance? Our Affiliate Forecasting tool removes the guesswork for you. Launched in late 2021, the pioneering solution has received an exciting update.  
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Marketing Strategies

Shake up your 2023 strategy with advanced affiliate tech

For advertisers and publishers to be successful this year, they will need to change their thinking and how they run their affiliate programmes. 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.
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Marketing Strategies

Affiliate Marketing and the Wider Marketing Mix

In its most basic form, affiliate marketing is a performance-based marketing channel whereby brands partner with publishers and pay them an agreed commission rate based on actual performance.
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Marketing Strategies

Affiliate benefits for financial services

Brands in the financial services industry are spending more on digital advertising. eMarketer projects that financial services advertisers will spend £14.62 billion on digital channels overall this year, nearly double the £8.08 billion they spent in 2017.
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Insights

Benefits of a Global Affiliate Network

The affiliate channel is the perfect low-risk, low-cost model for brands looking to expand internationally. Here are three key reasons why working with a global affiliate network is best for brands looking to expand beyond their home country.
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Marketing Strategies

Outthink with Affiliate Innovation

Rakuten Advertising’s award-winning affiliate innovation showcases how leading brands Microsoft, MAC and Forever New are outdelivering expectations.
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Marketing Strategies

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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Marketing Strategies

Smart Affiliate Commissioning Strategies

Smart commissioning strategies are changing the way advertisers engage with the affiliate channel.
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Insights

Outthink to Outperform: 2023 Affiliate Trends 

It’s hard to believe that another year is ending with many people looking back on the year that was and forward to what’s to come. And at the risk of sounding like a broken record, 2023 promises to be another year that keeps everyone on their toes.  
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