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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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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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Rafael Bonfa - member of the Rakuten Advertising International Collective
Marketing Strategies

RAIC Insights: Demonstrating How a Strong and Profitable Affiliate Program Delivers Brand Goals

The Rakuten Advertising International Collective (RAIC) aims to showcase the strategies and steps to elevate your affiliate thinking, giving you the tools to outthink the market and deliver campaigns that outperform for your business. In our latest post, Rafael Bonfa, Senior Performance and Affiliate Manager, US and Brazil at Aliexpress, outlines how to get c-suite buy-in for affiliate marketing.
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Susie Zhu, Director at Shoplooks
Marketing Strategies

Publisher Spotlight: Shoplooks

An industry-leading influencer marketing network partnering with 250,000 creators with the world's top brands, Shoplooks has experienced phenomenal growth in its six years. Read our latest spotlight and hear first-hand how the Shoplooks team connect brands with influencers to deliver long-lasting partnerships and top-tier campaigns.
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Marketing Strategies

Part 1 of The 3 Keys to Affiliate Intelligence by Rakuten Advertising Series: The Richest Data, Industry-First AI

Using products and tools powered by data and AI, Rakuten Advertising introduces Affiliate Intelligence to help brands and publishers connect with audiences and run data-informed campaigns.
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Marketing Strategies

GA4 and Affiliate Marketing: How to Navigate Changing Attribution Models

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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Dave Trolle, RAIC member and founder of Customer First Digital dispels affiliate myths in our latest blog
Marketing Strategies

RAIC Insights: Dispelling Affiliate Marketing Myths – Part 2

The Rakuten Advertising International Collective (RAIC) aims to showcase the strategies and steps that will elevate your affiliate thinking, giving you the tools to outthink the market and deliver campaigns that outperform for your business. In our latest post, Dave Trolle, founder of digital consultancy and Affiliate Marketing specialists Customer First Digital, introduces some of the most common myths surrounding affiliate marketing and how to bust them.
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Marketing Strategies

Prime Day 2026: Partnership Marketing Strategy to Capture the Halo Effect

Prime Day 2026 may start on Amazon, but its impact reaches across the retail web. Using Prime Day 2025 data, this article shows affiliate and partner marketers how the halo effect shapes traffic, conversions, category performance, and publisher strategy, and where to focus before June 23–26 to drive stronger results.
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Insights

Publisher Spotlight: Savings.com Introduces Affiliate Fundraising Initiative: SavingsCARES

We had the opportunity to sit down with Bianca Mitchell, Partnerships Director at Savings.com to hear about the exciting innovations that Savings.com has been accomplishing within the coupon space and their latest fundraising initiative, SavingsCARES.
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Insights

Incrementality: proving affiliate’s impact

Rakuten Advertising has embraced the reality of incrementality. We’ve laid out a four-phase plan to help you unlock the power of incrementality and fully grasp the impact your affiliate initiatives have on your business.
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Insights

Building High-Performance Affiliate Marketing Programs

Today Rakuten Advertising launches A 5-stage Blueprint for High-Performance Affiliate Marketing. The blueprint provides both advertisers and publishers with insights into the strategic value of affiliate marketing throughout the customer journey.  
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Marketing Strategies

Affiliate Insights for Publishers: Preparing for Q4 in an ever-shifting e-commerce landscape

A lot has happened in the world of e-commerce over recent years. For affiliate publishers, it can be hard to keep track of the shifting consumer behaviors and advertiser needs. As we step into Q4, and the annual retail frenzy peak, our experts share the latest insights and strategies to help publishers exceed their goals this shopping season.
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