TOP 20 Affiliate
(CPS) Networks
These are the current Blue Book Best CPS Affiliate Networks. Scroll down to view the Top 20 Affiliate Networks in 2015.
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| 1 | Rakuten Affiliate Network |  |
Now our 6-time winner, Rakuten Affiliate Network, part of Rakuten Marketing, receives enthusiastic support from both advertisers and publishers. |
| 2 | ShareASale/Affiliate Window |  |
As we went to press news came that Affiliate Window (part of zanox Group) has acquired ShareASale. Industry consolidation is accelerating. |
| 3 | eBay Partner Network Go to Website |
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eBay Partner Network is incredibly well-respected by people who know the performance marketing industry. A great network. |
| 4 | Avangate Go to Website |
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Avangate has been growing fast over the last few years and is our most popular “digital downloads” network by some margin. |
| 5 | Amazon Associates |  |
Amazon Associates remains the industry entry-point for many publishers. Their broad product offerings and ease of use make it simple. |
| 6 | CJ Affiliate by Conversant Go to Website |
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CJ is still a top network but survey feedback indicates that they’re just a little off the pace compared to the other giants. |
| 7 | ClickBank Go to Website |
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Enormous and extremely popular, ClickBank is still the entry point to the industry for a large number of merchants. |
| 8 | LinkConnector Go to Website |
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LinkConnector has a terrific range of trusted brands. In combination with their focus on proprietary technology this is consistently pushing them higher in our list. |
| 9 | RevenueWire Go to Website |
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A well appreciated Canadian network focused on digital commerce. An excellent reputation with advertisers. |
| 10 | FlexOffers Go to Website |
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Into the Top 10 comes FlexOffers, with good support for publishers and quality traffic for advertisers. |
| 11 | Impact Radius Go to Website |
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Run by legends of the industry, with top-class technology and great results. An intelligent, experienced network. |
| 12 | AvantLink Go to Website |
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A stable and professionally operated network with a great business model. |
| 13 | TradeDoubler Go to Website |
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A very strong European network founded way back in 1999. Tradedoubler has global reach and a terrific publisher network. |
| 14 | Performance Horizon Go to Website |
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A high-tech SaaS platform designed to scale globally and providing real-time data for big brands. Brilliantly effective technology. |
| 15 | Webgains/ad pepper media |  |
Based in the UK, with an active US office, Webgains delivers world-class customer service and cutting edge technology. |
| 16 | PepperJam Go to Website |
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Formerly eBay Enterprise Marketing Solutions and now resurrecting a brand synonymous with affiliate marketing, Pepperjam is newly independent and eager to expand. |
| 17 | oneNetworkDirect Go to Website |
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oND is still popular but increasingly finds itself over-shadowed by newer digital download networks. |
| 18 | Affiliate Future |  |
Based in London, founded in 1999 and owned by Global Data, Affiliate Future is a solid network well-respected by our survey respondents. |
| 19 | TradeTracker Go to Website |
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Another London-based network, and with 16 offices worldwide TradeTracker offers a lot of reach and a good platform. |
| 20 | Share Results Go to Website |
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Share Results is a decade-old network, confident enough to invest in developing their own technology and with a loyal set of retail-oriented clients. |
Best CPS Affiliate Networks – Top 20 Affiliate Networks 2017
Each year we conduct the biggest research survey in the performance marketing industry in order to identify the best CPS Affiliate Networks (Cost-Per-Sale). 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 Affiliate 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.
TOP 20
Affiliate (CPS) Networks 2015
Click here to view the TOP 20 Affiliate CPS Networks 2017
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- Network
- Survey comments or notes
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- 1
- Rakuten Linkshare
linkshare.com 
- A close competition between Rakuten LinkShare and CJ as always, but the quality of LinkShare’s advertiser support is hard to ignore.
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- 2
- CJ by Conversant
cj.com - CJ is felt by some to have a technology lead over their competition and is a little more popular with publishers. A very popular professional network.
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- 3
- Amazon
affiliate-program.amazon.com 
- The industry entry-point for many publishers. Ease of use and broad product offerings make it simple.
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- 4
- Avangate
avangate.com - An impressive jump in the rankings resulting from very strong support from their vibrant publisher community.
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- 5
- ebay Partner Newtork
ebaypartnernetwork.com 
- The absorption of Pepperjam and the bigger, stronger eBay Partner Network is extremely well-liked by publishers.
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- 6
- ClickBank
clickbank.com 
- Still huge even as they have had to evolve with the changing rules on promotions and disclosures. Massively popular with entry-level merchants.
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- ShareASale
shareasale.com 
- Always a contender, ShareASale seems to polarize opinions a little more than some other networks. A stable network with a solid history.
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- 8
- FlexOffers
flexoffers.com - FlexOffers is a network comprised of skilled online publishers with full compliance monitoring for advertisers within a multitude of product verticals.
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- 9
- Revenue Wire
revenuewire.com 
- A terrific jump in the rankings from last year shows the great reputation that this Canadian network has built for itself.
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- 10
- AvantLink
avantlink.com 
- Stable professionally operated and a great business model. Very popular with the advertisers in our survey. What more could anyone want?
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- 11
- LinkConnector
linkconnector.com 
- A terrific range of trusted brands and a focus on proprietary technology keeps LinkConnector high on our list.
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- 12
- Affiliate Window
us.affiliatewindow.com 
- The best network in Europe and increasingly prominent in the USA. Well worth a look for any publisher or advertiser looking to go global.
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- 13
- oneNetworkDirect
onenetworkdirect.com 
- oND is still popular but increasingly finds itself over-shadowed by newer digital download networks.
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- 14
- AffiliateNetwork
affiliatenetwork.com 
- Based in Manhattan and with a great reputation, especially for their email campaigns.
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- 15
- affiliatefuture
affiliatefuture.com 
- No longer a new a entry to the Top 20, but still based in NY and owned by Progressive Digital Media Group. Affiliate Future is going strong.
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- 16
- AdMedia
admedia.com 
- A surprising new entry this year, admedia has been providing online advertising services to advertisers, publishers and consumers since 1998.
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- 17
- Tradedoubler
tradedoubler.com 
- Another strong European network founded way back in 1999, Tradedoubler has a global reach and a great publisher network.
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- 18
- Webgains
us.webgains.com - Based in the UK but with an active US office, Webgains tries to stay focused on solid core values.
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- Impact Radius
impactradius.com - Run by legends of the industry, with top-class technology and great results. Well worth their inclusion.
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- 20
- Valuleads
valuleads.com 
- Back in the rankings this year, ValuLead’s customized campaigns have fostered a dramatic rise in popularity..
Past Winners:
2014 – Top 20 Affiliate Networks