“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.”

“Hands down, the LinkShare account management team has gone above and beyond to understand and cater to our business goals.”

"We came out of Symposium New York with new energy and a new plan to accelerate not just this channel, but our entire business."

“The Rakuten Advertising staff I’ve worked with has been perfect. The creation of strategies around multiple channels and being on the forefront of testing has exceeded expectations. Rakuten respected our needs while also pushing the boundaries compared to the competition.”

“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.”

"BeFrugal attributes a significant part of its growth and success to our relationship with Rakuten Affiliate Network. Not only have we grown 10x in the past 3 years, we have been able to drive new customers for our retailer partners, making this relationship a true win-win. We look forward to …

"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 …

"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."

"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 …

“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.”

“Rakuten Search is really able to hone in our needs and provide strategic recommendations to promote our brand. We have already achieved record success for 2014, our year-over-year growth is already up 20% and predicted to reach 48%.”

“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 …

"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."

"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!"