“The new strategy became a great negotiation tool.”

"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."

"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 …

"AMDX helped us to grow our program and meet our sales targets in a very competitive space. The collaboration between our teams is something we will continue to grow in 2020 and beyond while utilizing everything the Rakuten Advertising platform has to offer."

“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.”

"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."

“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.”

“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 …

"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."

"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 …

"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 …

“88% of consumers said they would shop online with free shipping, drawing a parallel to research that shows that 88% also don’t want to pay anything for shipping when they shop online. [Advertisers] tend to think of free shipping as coming with a minimum order [to help cover costs], Perez …

“They could be the main shopper in a household who didn’t get everything done; they could be the type to try and wait out sales; it could be college students who were caught up in exams and finals and didn’t get around to starting their shopping until after the semester …

“As we grow as a brand and add more global ecommerce distribution, Rakuten Affiliate Network will be a vital part of that growth.”