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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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5 CAKE Features to Streamline the Onboarding of New Affiliates
Let’s be real here: recruiting and onboarding new affiliates to your performance marketing program involves a lot of moving parts. You need to take care of paperwork, billing, training them on the program requirements, communicating expectations, and getting them access to the campaign assets they need so they can start right away—and the list goes
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3 CAKE Features to Easily Manage Affiliate Commissions
To maintain a competitive advantage as a network, you need to keep your affiliate partners happy. And one way to do that is to incentivize them with increased affiliate commissions for high-quality, high-volume traffic. However, when you’re managing a large number of affiliates and campaigns, it can be difficult to keep up with all
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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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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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IAB’s Performance Affiliate Conference | Show Insights
On Wednesday 25th January the IAB UK held their first Performance Affiliate Conference at The British Museum. The event attracted representatives from brands, affiliates, networks and publishers. The goal of the Conference was to highlight the importance of the Affiliate Channel in the Digital Marketing world, a model that drives £17.7billion worth of UK Sales.
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Infographic: The Evolution of Affiliate and Digital Marketing
Digital marketing continues to expand and is at the forefront of almost every brand’s marketing strategy. While the digital ecosystem is comprised of many different channels including search, social, display and many more, there has been one that continues to make a lasting impression. Affiliate marketing, which boasts impressive ROI, brand awareness and relatively minimal
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PMi Announces Top Affiliate Managers of 2015
From the entire CAKE team, congratulations to the Top Affiliate Managers of 2015, named by Performance Marketing Insider! We are very excited that three out of the five individuals selected this year are power-users of CAKE. An oh-so-special shout out to CAKE users – João Alhanati of GlobalWide Media, as well as Karla Christenson and
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Cookie-Based Tracking or Server-to-Server?
While postback (server to server) tracking is a much more reliable system that should be used wherever possible, there are still many affiliate systems that don’t support it. With that in mind we still need to support Cookie-based tracking to work with these affiliates.
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4 Tips to Jumpstart an Affiliate Marketing Program
Affiliate marketing programs that enlist third-party partners to promote offers and drive traffic boost the performance of digital advertising through the ability to definitively track ROI for those offers. Recognizing the benefit of these programs, marketers are increasing their affiliate spend. In fact, Forrester Research forecasts U.S. affiliate marketing spending will increase by a compounded
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What is a dynamic click pixel?
Co-authored by Woo Song As CAKE product engineers, customers often ask us, “How do I get up and running?” We tell them that it all starts with the pixel, an essential element for modern tracking capabilities. By using the latest in pixel technology, customers can not only get up and running quickly, but can gain deep
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Compete Against Large Retailers: Choose the Right Affiliate Network
To help merchants figure out which network is for them, Website Magazine is sharing a few tips on what to look for in a network, as well as what merchants can do to make themselves more attractive to affiliate publishers; featuring CAKE’s very own Woo Song! Read the full article here.
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5 Reasons to Add Email to Your Affiliate Program
Guest blog post written by Morgan Simon, UnsubCentral Marketing Manager. We may be a little biased, but here at UnsubCentral we love email. Our team has many years of experience in the affiliate marketing industry and has worked with hundreds of clients on how to remain compliant while running successful email programs. Below are 5
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ASW 2015: The First Stepping-stone on our Journey to Another Successful Year
Well, that’s another Affiliate Summit West in the books. Everyone at CAKE had a fantastic time meeting with our existing clients and partners as well as fostering some great new relationships. Building on the successes of a very fruitful 2014, we set out to make ASW 2015 the first stepping-stone on our journey to another
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In-House & Outsourced Affiliate Marketing: Getting The Best Of Both Worlds
As global ecommerce spending continues to boom year-on-year, a growing number of UK advertisers are moving away from third-party affiliate marketing platforms in favor of building their own resources in-house and taking direct control of their online performance marketing. Paul Wright, Managing Director, Europe of CAKE shares his thoughts with Momentology on how marketers can
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Performance Marketing: 4 Key Metrics For Brands
While there are many data points that brands can track, there are four key performance marketing metrics that are essential in determining how campaigns are performing, how digital marketing spend can be optimized, and the overall success or failure of a brand’s digital marketing efforts. Santi Pierini, President of CAKE shares with Momentology his insights
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Letter from the CTO: CAKE for Networks Takes Affiliate Marketing to the Next Level
Since its inception, CAKE has been committed to fostering innovation and growth in the affiliate industry. That quest continues… At the start of 2014 CAKE began an initiative to uplift our current platform and brand, and today we introduced a new release of CAKE for Networks. With this latest version, affiliate networks can access data-driven
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