"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 …

"Working with our talented Rakuten Advertising team helped us to greatly surpass our targeted goal. The seamless communication and execution across channels enabled us to have clear visibility into how each channel was performing, making it easier to monitor and optimize our initiatives."

“The Rakuten Marketing Search team is a huge asset to Vans e-commerce. They continue to drive sales, stay abreast of industry trends, and provide great support year after year. We consider their search marketing expertise, technology and strategy a critical part of our online success.”

"Rakuten Advertising was the right fit for us to grow our affiliate reach and provide the connection to our own attribution model in order to develop this method further."

“Partnering with Rakuten Affiliate Network has not just enabled Goodshop to experience 334% growth in the past 2 years, it has helped provide new customers to our merchants and support over 114,000 charitable causes. We look forward to continuing our partnership in the years to come.”

“One of the pitfalls of employing the same discounts repeatedly is that advertisers risk losing the customer to the competition. Consumers respond best to what they perceive as better value, and it’s in the retailer's best interest to mix offers up to excite consumers.”

“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 …

“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.”

“The new strategy became a great negotiation tool.”

"Accelerate has allowed both companies to join forces with a united front and to tackle any obstacle that arises, together our partnership has gone from good to great and the best is yet to come."

"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."

"Using Cadence, we have been able to see the true impact of our affiliate programme across the board. Not only has it helped us transform strategy, but further enable us to invest confidently in the affiliate channel with Rakuten Marketing.”

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

"The past few months have been a challenging time for all, especially our frontline heroes. As a brand which prides itself on all-day comfort, FitFlop identified the opportunity to give back to NHS staff over this period, while tackling current market challenges in an ever-changing retail environment. The team had …

"Our measurement of the campaign proved the investment and authentic, vibrant content resonated with our audience, in some instances better than own-brand content. Throughout this campaign, we worked collaboratively across departments to inject newness to the campaign to reduce our reliance on discounting. This strategy will play a pivotal role …