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What is Performance Marketing and How Has it Evolved?
What is performance marketing? What is the goal of performance marketing? How has it evolved over the years and how can it help my organization? Today’s blog answers these questions and more. What is performance marketing? Two decades ago, performance marketing emerged when brands were getting increasingly concerned about the amount of money they were
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Life is Good, But the CAKE Idea Portal is Here to Make it Even Better for Our Customers
We are pleased to invite our customers to the CAKE Idea Portal, an exclusive customer community, which provides a new, effective way for us to collaborate on what’s coming next! At CAKE, we believe in empowering customers, sharing knowledge, and inspiring continued innovation for performance and growth. With that in mind, we created a shared
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Spotlight: Q&A With The Bastio Consulting Group
Performance Marketing Agency Leverages CAKE to Increase Performance Results by 25+ Percent for Expanding Customer Base In this CAKE Spotlight, we’re excited to feature a performance marketing agency, the Bastio Consulting Group. The company’s founders – Brian and Serena Bastio – share their industry best practices with their clients to deliver affiliate marketing programs
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Path to the Future: CAKE Celebrates 10 Years of Progress and Innovation, and is Set for More to Come
As we enter 2020, CAKE is thrilled to celebrate our 10-year anniversary. Over the past decade, with all that has changed some things have remained the same at CAKE…. such as our mission to deliver trusted, innovative performance marketing solutions that create the best revenue opportunities for our customers worldwide. In a year where we
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5 Best Practices for Working with Your Lead Buyers on a Ping Post
As a lead distribution network or publisher, your success hinges on being flexible enough to work with a wide range of lead buyers that are using different technologies and have vastly different requirements. If you’re constantly creating workarounds, chances are you’re missing out on lead revenue. To increase your lead volume and scale your program,
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Spotlight: Q&A With CAKE’s VP of Product Development, Dave Wilson
CAKE’s Spotlight is a series that features the amazing, talented, and intelligent team that drives the company’s continued innovation and growth. Today you’ll have the opportunity to meet (or learn more about!) our very own David Wilson. A true team player, David joined CAKE more than seven years ago and since then has advanced to
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Lead Distribution: The Next Big Revenue Growth Driver for Affiliate Networks
Affiliate marketing has taken exciting strides over the past decades, and affiliate networks have played an important role in the industry’s rise. In fact, today the vast majority of advertisers, an impressive 83 percent, partner with affiliate networks and rely on them to secure deals with publishers. There are numerous ways they continue to deliver
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Affiliate Marketing in India: Unlocking the Value of the Advertiser and Network Partnership
Affiliate marketing in India is on the rise. And for good reason. In a recent survey, about 90 percent of the advertisers in India stated that affiliate programs were important to their overall marketing strategy, contributing to almost 20 percent of their annual revenue. So, how do advertisers and networks stay ahead and continue growing
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Three Ways to Leverage Technology to Grow Your Affiliate Marketing Program
In 2009 I first entered the performance marketing world as an affiliate manager; as my book of business grew, I knew technology was going to be the key to continued success. Since then, some things have changed. I moved on to CAKE, a performance marketing software company, and now am the Head of Major Accounts.
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Best Practices for Sales and Client Success: Q&A With Garth Harris
As CAKE’s Vice President of Operations and with almost a decade of experience in the performance marketing industry, Garth Harris shares his personal story about how he joined CAKE, plus perspectives on best practices for sales and client success teams. He also dives into CAKE’s recent acquisition by Constellation. Here are some highlights from the
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In Good Company – Performance Marketing Software Reviews
Where do you start when looking to purchase a consumer product? If you’re like many, one of the first things is to check out customer reviews on sites such as Amazon, Angie’s List, Yelp, or TripAdvisor. This provides you with insights and ultimately helps make smart buying decisions. The same holds true for business technology.
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Why Affiliate Marketers Should Use Unique Post-Click Landing Pages for Campaigns
Guest blog post written by Tyson Quick, CEO and Founder of Instapage. Earn money while you sleep. Affiliate marketers hear this phrase much too often because this is how the world thinks affiliate marketing works. Just sign up for an affiliate program, create some ads, connect them to a web page and start earning commissions
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MWC 2018: Reflections and Predictions
It’s been over a week since the largest mobile-focused event hit the shores of Barcelona and the CAKE team is reflecting upon the key talking points highlighted at the fast-paced, four-day show. This year the over-arching event theme was “Creating a Better Future” (the full details of which can be found here). Aside from eating
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Insights from a Data Scientist: Predicting the Customer Journey to Boost ROAS
Our Data Science department at CAKE has been busy. Recent accomplishments are highlighted on our tech blog and a press release announced our related Patent Application which utilizes Hidden Markov Models to boost return on ad spend (ROAS). Digital marketers are interested in gaining deeper insights about the customer journey to better understand their customers
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UK Digital Adspend Study by The IAB and PwC
On the 12th April, the IAB along with PwC published their findings on the growth of digital Adspend within the UK Digital Industry over the last year. You can find the full results here. Below are highlights from the study that we found interesting. Mobile The key findings from the study indicated a 17.3% increase
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ad:tech New Delhi | Show Insights
Held March 9-10 at The Leela Ambience Gurgaon, ad:tech New Delhi brought together more than 6,500 attendees representing over 31 countries with the goal of connecting modern marketers with suppliers, networks, digital strategies and innovative trends and technology. Featuring a two-day line up of insightful sessions and an exhibit hall, ad:tech New Delhi sought to uncover the emerging
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