• 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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  • CAKE News

    G2 Summer 2021 Grid® Report: CAKE Named an Industry Leader

    Once again, CAKE was recognized as an industry leader in the G2 Summer 2021 Grid Report. CAKE received award badges in 18 different categories as users emphasized their high satisfaction with the quality of the performance marketing platform and its excellent customer support. G2 is the largest software marketplace and services review platform. According to
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  • Insights

    CAKE recognized as industry leader in the G2 Spring 2021 Grid® report

    As part of G2’s Spring 2021 Grid® reports, CAKE has earned high customer marks in 19 categories. G2 is the largest software marketplace and services review platform. According to G2, the Grid® represents the democratic voice of real software users, rather than the subjective opinion of one analyst. G2 rates products from the categories algorithmically
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  • How-To

    5 Best Practices for Onboarding New Advertisers

    Onboarding is a critical step in establishing a long-term relationship with new advertisers. You’re still working on earning their trust, business, and even potentially exclusivity at some point down the road. So put your best foot forward: show what you’re capable of, minimize potential hiccups, and create a positive onboarding experience that will set the
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  • How-To

    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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  • Insights

    Build vs Buy Software: Dispelling 3 Common Myths About Building Your Own Affiliate Network Solution

    Are you thinking of building (or perhaps you’re already using) your own affiliate network software? If so, it’s inevitable that you’ve pondered over whether to build or buy, and possibly if your current software meets the cut. The advantages of buying or licensing affiliate network software is well-documented. The right solution plays a key role
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  • How-To

    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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  • How-To

    How to Customize Sub ID Payouts to Reward Partners  

    Optimizing campaign performance depends on properly identifying which campaigns and partners are performing well. CAKE enables affiliate marketers to track and measure granular data points about partner performance using Sub ID click tracking parameters. With this knowledge, you’ll be in a position to do more of what is working best, reward your partners with higher payouts
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  • How-To

    Vlog: How to Control and Improve Lead Quality

    As a performance marketer, you need to make sure the leads you sell to buyers aren’t returned because of fraudulent data or low lead quality. So the constant challenge is: How do you control and improve your lead quality?? That’s the topic of our latest conversation between Garth Harris, CAKE’s VP of Product Innovation, and
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