• Product Development

    CAKE Q3 Product Update: What’s New, What’s Next

    At CAKE, our goal is to deliver a product that meets and often exceeds customers’ business needs, so we welcome your contributions to our product roadmap. This is where the CAKE Idea Portal comes in. Our customer community can log in to the CAKE Idea Portal to share business challenges, provide suggested features, and vote
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  • Insights

    The Cookieless Future: How to Maintain Accurate Measurement and Prioritize Consumer Privacy

    Performance marketers are preparing for a cookieless future full of evolving consumer privacy regulations. This new wave of regulations is making marketers rethink how to maintain accurate measurement across their digital campaigns. The impact? Affiliate networks that fail to prioritize privacy initiatives and adopt alternate tracking methods in lieu of cookie-based tracking will become obsolete.
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  • How-To

    Maximizing Efficiencies With The Mass Adjustment Tool in CAKE

    The Mass Adjustment Tool equips customers with timesaving workflows and the flexibility to get granular with data. The purpose of the tool is to reconcile conversion and event counts at any point in a billing cycle to provide accurate reporting, revenue, numbers, and cost. Admins can add, remove, or adjust conversions or events for advertisers,
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  • CAKE News

    Spotlight Q&A With Ollie Ross, CAKE’s Business Development Representative

    In this spotlight Q&A, we caught up with Ollie Ross, CAKE’s EMEA Business Development Representative. Ollie brings more than six years of retail and sales experience to CAKE and is dedicated to helping prospects understand the robust and powerful capabilities of the company’s platform. Here are some highlights from our conversation.   What is your
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  • Insights

    Affiliate Marketing Statistics in 2022: Predictions, Trends, and Opportunities

    Affiliate marketing has proven to be one of the most adaptable channels available to marketers. Affiliate marketing statistics show that nearly half of U.S. executive-level marketers say they have greater control over their ad spend and better ROI with affiliate marketing compared to other digital channels. With more pressure to prove measurable ROI, marketers are
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  • How-To

    Landing Pages: The Feature You Need to Streamline Workflows

    Landing pages are an essential tool that digital marketers use to convert website visitors into leads. Across all industries, landing pages convert at an average rate of 9.7 percent. How you achieve high-converting landing pages comes from the ability to create a personalized customer experience along each unique conversion path. In CAKE, the Landing Page
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  • Events

    3 Trends Influencing Lead Generation and Distribution in Europe

    The CAKE team recently attended Lead Generation World London to meet existing CAKE customers, network, and learn about the 2022 trends impacting the lead generation industry in Europe. Lead Generation World is a global event that takes place in the United States and the United Kingdom and brings together lead generators, performance marketers, and service
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  • CAKE News

    CAKE Q2 Product Update: What’s New, What’s Next

    We’re highlighting the Q1 2022 product releases and new features coming to the CAKE platform this quarter. Since our Q4 product update, customers have submitted incredible ideas to the CAKE Idea Portal. The Product team has gone through each submission and we are excited to share the ideas that have been pushed live, those currently
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  • CAKE News

    Meet IPQualityScore, CAKE’s New Fraud Prevention Partner

    Advertisers and affiliate networks focus on increasing profit margins and building strong partnerships. Yet this can be hampered by a serious challenge that dates back to the early 90s— digital advertising fraud. And it’s still on the rise. Globally, the costs associated with digital ad fraud are projected to increase from 35 billion in 2018
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  • CAKE News

    Spotlight Q&A With Mackenzie Barr, CAKE’s Business Development Representative

    In this spotlight Q&A, we caught up with Mackenzie Barr, CAKE’s Business Development Representative. Mackenzie brings more than four years of sales experience and is passionate about helping prospects find the best solution for their unique business goals. Here are some highlights from our conversation.   What is your current role at CAKE and what
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  • CAKE News

    CAKE Recognized as Industry and Momentum Leader in the G2 Winter 2022 Grid® Report

    As part of G2’s Winter 2022 Grid® Report, CAKE’s performance marketing software has once again received recognition for the highest user adoption, momentum leader, best support, and high performer. With these accolades spanning 16 different categories including affiliate marketing, Ecommerce analytics, cross-channel advertising, and others, performance marketers can leverage the G2 Winter 2022 Grid® Report
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  • How-To

    5 Reporting Features You Should Be Using in 2022

    Robust performance marketing software fuels speed and accuracy which enables marketers to quickly recognize revenue-generating opportunities. Whether you are collecting first- or third-party data, or a combination of both, CAKE seamlessly ingests the data and provides advertisers and networks the ability to identify and act on performance trends, in real-time.   Same accurate data, enhanced
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  • CAKE News

    Spotlight Q&A With Rocco Sarich, CAKE’s Senior Marketing Manager

    In this spotlight Q&A, we caught up with Rocco Sarich, CAKE’s Senior Marketing Manager. Rocco brings over a decade of experience, a passion for problem-solving, and a curiosity that empowers his creativity. Here are some highlights from our conversation.   What is your current role at CAKE and what are you focused on? I am
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  • Insights

    Affiliate Marketing Trends 2022: A Look Forward

    In part one of this two-part affiliate marketing series, we covered key challenges and significant milestones that impacted the affiliate channel since its inception in 1994. Now, in part two we’ll explore how affiliate marketing continues to evolve and important trends that are shaping the future of the channel.   What’s trending in 2022 The
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  • CAKE News

    CAKE Q4 Product Update: What’s New, What’s Next

    We are thrilled to share that since our Q3 product update, we have received 35 new ideas to the CAKE Idea Portal. The CAKE Idea Portal is our customer community fueled by our clients who collaborate on ideas they would like to see make it into CAKE’s product roadmap. In Q4 we added new functionality
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  • Insights

    Affiliate Marketing Trends: A Look Back

    The multibillion-dollar affiliate marketing industry has grown and matured since its inception almost three decades ago. Over that time, the industry has overcome challenges and continues to contribute to new customer acquisition and fuel repeat purchases. Today, affiliate marketing is used by over 80 percent of advertisers. This two-part series will take you through the
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  • Blog

    ‘Tis The Season For Gratitude and Thanks

    Though we appreciate you — our amazing CAKE customers — all year round, it’s that time of year when we want to send a special shout out!  May your holiday season and all the days ahead be filled with happiness, peace, and prosperity. The entire team at CAKE appreciates your continued support and partnership with
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  • How-To

    Performance Marketing: An Affiliate Marketing Glossary

    The affiliate marketing industry is a dynamic world with a language of its own. The vocabulary used to describe the unique nuances of this business space is not always widely or easily understood.  Performance marketing, an advertising model that allows advertisers to pay a fixed dollar amount for a specified result, includes both affiliate marketing
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