Revenue Performance announced today that ClickBank has been chosen as the top ranked affiliate network in the performance marketing industry. Epic Direct has been chosen as the top ranked CPA network. The results come after two months of extensive research, over 5,000 publishers and advertisers surveyed and dozens of dicussions with industry experts and insiders.

The full list of the BLUE BOOK Top 20 CPA Networks may be found here.

The full list of the BLUE BOOK Top 20 Affiliate Networks may be found here.

In addition to ClickBank and Epic Direct, Never Blue, oneNetworkDirect, ShareASale, Market Leverage and CJ ranked particularly well, although each of the networks that made it into the Top 20 rankings were enthusaistically supportedby many publishers and advertisers.

For the first time, our ranking process included a Blue-Ribbon Panel of industry experts, including luminaries such as Heather Paulson, Peter Klein, Mbrendan Smith, Jennifer Lovette and other. The full list of members of the Blue-Ribbon Panel may be found here together with background on the importance of their input.

Rankings such as this are always met with disagreement and discussion. We welcome your input and look forward to hearing from you with a view to making the BLUE BOOK Top 20 rankings even more authoritative next time around.

For now though, we extend our congratualtions to all of the networks that made it into the BLUE BOOK Top 20. These networks are the flag-bearers of the industry and we have no hesitation in recommending them to you.

Chris Trayhorn