• Top Cost-Per-Acquisition CPA Networks 2024

    These are the Blue Book Top CPA (Cost-Per-Acquisition/Cost-Per-Action) Networks, as chosen by the advertisers and publishers of the world-wide performance marketing community.

    INDUSTRY LEADERS 2024

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    MaxBounty

    MaxBounty returns to our #1 spot for 2024 reflecting huge support from our advertisers and publishers. MaxBounty is also the first inductee into the Blue Book Hall of Fame recognizing their two decades of performance marketing industry leadership. Famous for their strong advertiser support and top-notch advertiser reporting interface, they also dominate with affiliates across multiple verticals. CEO Matt McEvoy is appreciated as one of the industry's strongest leaders and for being a straight-shooter, while his team is experienced and supportive. In 2024 MaxBounty celebrates their 20th Anniversary - the new Blue Book #1-ranking as the best CPA network worldwide is a fitting appreciation of their continued excellence.

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    Digital Media Solutions

    As a leading provider of technology-enabled, data-driven digital performance advertising solutions, Digital Media Solutions has a strong reputation among both advertisers and publishers. DMS says, “With a focus on high-quality traffic and high-touch support, DMS Performance Ad Market connects leading advertisers with industry-leading publishers, leveraging the DMS proprietary tracking platform to execute and optimize high-converting CPA, CPL, CPC and CPM campaigns across diverse media channels, including email, native, search, social media and more.”

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    Perform[cb] (formerly Clickbooth)

    Perform[cb] was our #1-ranked network for seven years but has dropped two places for 2024. They are still rated highly by both advertisers and affiliates, though the number voting for them has fallen slightly, possibly as a result of a shift in their market positioning. This is an ambitious network that has continually invests in its platform and in acquisitions, and has recently shifted their offerings for advertisers to "outcome-based marketing", reflecting the scale and sophistication of their solutions. Perform[cb] is strong in pay-per-call and media buying and have a very experienced leadership team. Perform[cb] says, "Perform[cb] empowers brands to acquire new customers through incremental digital channels on a pay for results model. Our proprietary technology and highly-curated partner marketplace aligns “cost-per” pricing with customer lifetime value."

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    ClickDealer

    ClickDealer is a market-leading affiliate network with over a decade of industry experience. The company’s long run in performance marketing has afforded them a seasoned managerial team, in-house optimization and tracking solutions, and exclusive deals with long-term partners that make ClickDealer popular with publishers and advertisers worldwide. Offers unique smartlink technology. Strong in lead-gen, e-commerce and Pay-Per-Call.

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    CrakRevenue

    CrakRevenue is an industry-leading, international CPA network with over 13 years of experience in traffic monetization and digital marketing. CrakRevenue provides its network with exclusive, high-paying affiliate programs in some of the most profitable verticals (including Cam, Dating, CBD and Gaming), an innovative all-in-one platform, powerful promotional tools , in-house creatives, tested funnels and multilingual support, all year round.

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    TORO Advertising

    One of our favorite European networks, TORO is based in Spain and Argentina, and has risen quickly up through our rankings. They receive enthusiastic votes from advertisers and publishers alike, with client and partner support being especially highly-rated.

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    A4D Performance Network

    A San Diego-based network, A4D is aggressive, smart and has a loyal band of publishers.

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    The Affiliati Network

    The Miami-based network founded by Sonny Palta is a big hit with publishers in our survey, and is ranked in the GLOBAL20 for the first time this year.

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    Mobidea

    Mobidea is an award-winning Mobile Affiliate Network specialized in mobile offers for affiliate marketers. Driven by technology and education, Mobidea knows +130k affiliates and what drives them to succeed.

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    iMonetizeIt

    iMonetizeIt offers a CPA marketplace and an effective Smartlink solution with traffic from a worldwide network. They focus in particular on dating, sweepstakes and nutra.

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    MaxWeb

    MaxWeb is an Irish network that specializes in health & beauty campaigns, primarily via social and content marketing channels. They are popular with affiliates who love their laser-focus and well-optimized offers.

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    AdCombo Affiliate Network

    Founded in 2014, AdCombo focuses on tier-2 geos such as Eastern Europe, South Asia and Latin America. They get a lot of support from international affiliates and are new to our rankings this year.

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    MyLead

    Based in Poland, MyLead is a popular network that claims 720,000 affiliate partners. With a full suite of world-wide offers and good partner services and training, they are deservedly well-supported in our Blue Book surveys.

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    CPAlead

    CPALead focuses on mobile app installs, operating a real-time bidding platform that connects mobile app advertisers to anyone with mobile traffic. They are well-established, having been around for more than a decade, and have a great reputation.

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    Convert2Media

    Convert2Media, better known as C2M, is based in Florida and has been around since 2007. Very experienced, smart and with a network of committed affiliates, C2M was one of our top-rated networks for several years and is now welcomed back into the top 20.

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    RevenueAds

    Based in Oklahoma, RevenueAds has been around for a decade or more. This is their first time in the Blue Book top 20, with our response panel particularly mentioning their email list marketing and lead-gen capabilities.

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    AdWork Media

    AWM is particularly strong in Content Locking and run on their own proprietary platform in order to deliver a great publisher experience.

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    AdMedia

    AdMedia is the biggest search engine marketplace outside the major search engines. They offer a huge network, a full range of channels and technology partners, and full-service account management.

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    Admitad

    A leading European network, Admitad is a truly international network with extensive reach. Admitad says, "Admitad GmbH is an international CPA affiliate advertising network of over 80,000 active and verified publishers and 1,600 advertisers. Established in 2010, the company is headquartered in Heilbronn, Germany, with 7 offices across the world and sales in over 80 countries. We provide managed promotion on the CPA/Rev-Share model across our global affiliate network of 15 different traffic categories in 15 different languages."

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    Zeydoo

    Zeydoo.com is a CPA network focused on promoting direct offers from PropellerAds advertising clients. They are new to our rankings this year and received good support from our publishers voting panel.

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    dr.cash

    dr.cash is a specialist nutra network founded in 2018. If health and beauty is your vertical, dr.cash is certainly one the top networks to consider.

    Best CPA Affiliate Networks – Top 20 CPA Networks

    Each year we conduct the biggest research survey in the performance marketing industry in order to identify the best CPA networks (Cost-Per-Acquisition). The responses are then aggregated with input from the Blue Ribbon Panel of industry experts and mThink’s own research. The result is the Blue Book Top 20 CPA Networks, as chosen by the advertisers and publishers of the world-wide performance marketing community. These are the industry leaders that provide the levels of customer service, professionalism and consistent ROI that is the mark of a top network. They have also learned to survive and thrive in an ever-changing and incredibly competitive environment, so they are without exception run by smart, effective leaders.

    The BLUE BOOK Top 20 is not a simple list of the biggest networks. Instead, it takes into account reputation, influence, clientele, popularity and scale.

    An important part of the ranking process is our survey of over 25,000 industry figures that is carried out during the Fall. In the survey, we ask an open-field first question to identify the respondent’s favorite networks for running CPA and affiliate campaigns. The open-field nature of this first question is designed to avoid any selection-bias caused by prompting or by which networks we include in a pick-list. On a subsequent screen we provide a list of almost 50 networks from which respondents are asked to choose an additional four networks in each of the CPA and affiliate network categories, together with an additional open-field for write-in choices. In all, some 400 networks are included in our considerations.

    In addition to the survey, we researched and aggregated expert views, traffic data, measures of industry influence and as many other pieces of data as we can gather. We also have a strong Blue Ribbon Panel of respected leaders in the industry that help provide insight and evaluation.

    The final result of all these deliberations is the BLUE BOOK Top 20: the biggest and fairest evaluation of the best performance marketing networks in the world.


    Disclaimer
    While we put a huge amount of effort into researching and compiling the Blue Book rankings, as with all such lists they should be taken only as an expression of our opinion. By developing and posting these rankings, mThink makes no representation or warranty as to the accuracy or factual basis of the rankings. We recommend that users should carry out their own research. Under no circumstances will mThink be held liable in any way for any ranking, any errors or omissions in any ranking/s, or any loss or damage of any kind incurred as a result of the use of the ranking/s.

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