42 Rakuten Marketing Testimonials

"We are very pleased with the success of our affiliate marketing strategy and as a result, winning the Best Managed Global Affiliate Programme in the International Performance Marketing Awards 2018. Our partnership with Rakuten Advertising played a vital part in the increase of our campaign performance, which drove huge sale growth globally during the year. Our strategy enabled us to retain exclusivity whilst capturing new customers, resulting in the growth of the programme."

“We perceived Rakuten Affiliate Network to have a higher standard in the luxury and fashion industry than competitors and we believe our recent successes justify that opinion.”

"Rakuten Advertising has played a huge part in the success and growth of the Cult Beauty affiliate programme. The market-specific knowledge the team has provided has helped shape the international growth strategy of the programme and has also provided crucial information for the business to inform international strategy. Coupled with the strong account management and service, it’s a delight to partner with Rakuten Advertising."

"The strategy we built with AMDX and Rakuten Advertising has helped us focus our spend on acquiring new customers, while still realizing the impact the affiliate channel has on driving repeat purchases."

“Rakuten LinkShare offers an amazing level of service and higher level thinking that’s taking our affiliate marketing program to the next level.”

"Rakuten Advertising has helped us to understand how vital influencers have become, especially with targeting and reaching new customers. They continue to drive success for brands so we’re looking forward to investing in influencer marketing in the upcoming year."

"Partnering with Rakuten Affiliate Network has made it easy for CouponCabin to drive incremental growth and new customers for advertisers. We look forward to continued, tremendous growth with RAN and our partners within the network!"

"Our partnership with Rakuten Advertising and Customer First Digital has opened our eyes to the opportunity and returns that can be gained from the affiliate channel. The programme has exceeded our expectations and is now driving a significant source of new customers . We have also been able to use the intelligence to inform our wider business planning across other marketing channels."

"Having worked together successfully since 2017, we trust Rakuten Advertising to invest the cost of sale to produce the best results. We have seen increases YoY having launched with Accelerate at the end of last year. Our account management team have become an extension of our team – they are highly efficient and always a step ahead of our requests which makes everything a lot easier!"

"Rakuten Marketing has provided strategic recommendations that have helped us to optimize campaigns and test new acquisition strategies with publishers. Their expertise in the vertical and their strong partner relationships have led to a highly successful program."

“Our affiliate programme with the Rakuten Marketing Affiliate Network has been going from strength-to-strength and their understanding of the fashion and lifestyle sector has helped us achieve our planned online growth. We are looking forward to further success in 2017 as we move into Rakuten Marketing’s fully managed service and utilise their powerful insights and attribution platform, Cadence, to optimise our programme even further and grow our cross-border commerce on the back of their extensive international presence.”

“We partnered with Rakuten Advertising at a crucial time for our brand when our ecommerce revenues were falling. We were losing confidence in our marketing spend and Rakuten Advertising quickly turned this around and gave me the confidence to increase our investment. We have always been a very ROI focused business and this integrated marketing strategy has exceeded my expectations, delivering a unified approach to performance marketing which was the absolute goal I had in mind.”

“We have seen revenue grow month to month. Affiliates now count for 20% of our online business — from 0 to 20% in 18 months, not bad at all.”

“As a fashion site, our readers gravitate towards high end luxury fashion brands. Not only does the Rakuten Affiliate program work with the majority of these brands, but the program also provides all the tools our editors and data analysts need to make informed decisions. Our editors have the ability to create custom links in the matter of seconds while our analysts can pull a variety of reports at a moments notice. This gives our team the power to monitor sales, commissions and industry trends at any given time.”

“Our aim to break into APAC through affiliate partnerships turned out to be a huge success; we see constant growth across all KPIs and gained many new valuable publishers. The successful relationship with Rakuten Affiliate Network helped to achieve our objectives; our global programme is impressively growing due to fantastic account support with a common understanding of growing sales and customer reach globally.”