Network Partners

Formerly known as Impact Radius, Impact was founded in 2008 in Santa Barbara, California. Since its conception, it has grown to over 750 employees and twelve offices across the United States, Europe, and Asia. Impact is a global leader in Affiliate Marketing, allowing brands to scale their marketing strategy.

Impact’s Partnership Cloud automates each stage of the partnership lifecycle from discovery, recruitment, onboarding, engagement, and optimization of all types of partnerships. Impact Partnership Cloud comes with an application programming interface (API), which facilitates integration with third-party platforms, such as Salesforce, Shopify, Google Shopping, Twilio, WooCommerce, Facebook, Instagram, and more. And in April of 2021, Impact acquired Affluent, furthering their analytics & reporting capabilities.

Founded in 2005, AvantLink had been recognized as one of the fastest-growing entrepreneurial businesses in its field. Since then, it has become the premiere affiliate referral tracking, analytics, and technology platform for web retailers. AvantLink offers an array of industry-leading Affiliate tools and scripts that are integrated into the network free of charge. They also maintain a zero-tolerance policy for fraud or other rogue practices.

Always striving to better the client and publisher experience, AvantLink has developed the highly anticipated Arches platform. AvantLink CEO, Scott Kalbach, explains “The new platform brings the next generation of data architecture, tracking, UI/UX, and performance marketing technology to those in the AvantLink network.”

Ascend by Partnerize

Headquartered in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., Ascend by Partnerize, formerly known as Pepperjam, is a global provider with offices in London, New York, Philadelphia, Santa Cruz, Sydney, Tempe, and Toronto. Founded in 1999, Ascend by Partnerize is known in the industry for having brought together some of the greatest minds and technology in performance marketing while maintaining a boutique feel. They do this by taking a cross-channel approach to portfolio management allowing for maximum ROAS and facilitating one to personalize the impersonal.

The Ascend platform delivers a fully integrated suite of discovery, recruitment, optimization, payment, and brand safety capabilities. In other words, Pepperjam’s Ascend platform allows one to control the entire affiliate partnership marketing lifecycle—on a single platform.

Founded as a Japanese e-commerce brand, Rakuten Advertising is home to one of the top affiliate marketing networks. With over 20 years of experience in Affiliate and Performance Marketing, Rakuten Advertising is an innovative platform with an award-winning solution that connects advertisers with valuable audiences and helps publishers monetize their content. Rakuten Advertising states that its mission is to make the internet a better place. “A place that brings relevance, value, and enjoyment to everyone involved – advertisers, publishers, and consumers alike.” They achieve this goal by committing to constant innovation and implementing “game-changing strategies” informed by decades of learning.

ShareASale is a Chicago-based affiliate network that has spent over 20 years growing its network. By 2017 ShareASale became one of North America’s largest affiliate management platforms. ShareASale aims to guide merchants and publishers to success through nurturing relationships and delivering cutting-edge technology. ShareASale provides real-time insights into performance data, affiliate partner activity, and personalized program diagnostics.

In January 2017, a large part of ShareASale’s affiliate operations had been acquired by Awin, a global affiliate network. With over 20 years of experience in Affiliate Marketing for both ShareASale and Awin, they set forth to build a platform that provides solutions to drive sustainable growth for merchants worldwide. Since the merge ShareASale has increased its reach, providing international opportunities to even more affiliates across the globe.