“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.”

"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 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."

“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 …

"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 …

“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 …

“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 …

"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 …

“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 …

"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."

“It wasn’t until we started working with Rakuten Marketing that we understood how much incremental revenue retargeting could drive. The ability to quantify the specific value of our retargeting campaigns made Rakuten Marketing the obvious choice as a retargeting partner.”

“The new strategy became a great negotiation tool.”