The affiliate marketing landscape, a multi-billion-dollar engine of the global digital economy, witnessed a transformative moment this week. Rakuten Advertising—a titan of the industry—and impact.com, the leading partnership management platform, announced a strategic alliance that fundamentally alters the infrastructure of performance marketing. This partnership effectively bifurcates the traditional affiliate model: Rakuten Advertising will pivot to […]
10 Thoughts on impact.com Rakuten Alliance in Affiliate Marketing
A few days ago, the affiliate marketing industry was rocked by major news: Rakuten and impact.com announced “a strategic alliance to modernize the affiliate and performance marketing ecosystem.†Long story short, the world was told that Rakuten Advertising will now focus solely on affiliate program management, while all Rakuten-based affiliate programs will migrate to impact.com‘s […]