Being a influencer online is nice but it’s a lot nicer when you’re making money from it.
When it comes to making money from your blog or channel, affiliate marketing is one of the best ways to turn traffic into cash.
But affiliate marketing is only a viable strategy if you can find quality products that your audience is interested in.
Here’s a list of 7 affiliate marketplaces/platforms that you can sign up with.
So whether you want to promote physical or digital products, work with big or small brands, you’ll find an affiliate platform on this list that can help you find what you’re looking for.
1.Impact
Getting paid: Hit their minimum or custom payment threshold, or on the 1st or 15th of the month.
Payment method: Direct Deposit, BACS, or PayPal.
Minimum payout: $50
Founded in 2008, Impact is one of the newest networks on the block. They partnered with an impressive array of brands for affiliates to choose from, and offers over nine million products. You can find partnerships with SaaS and SEO brands like Semrush or opportunities with brands like Airbnb and Adidas.
A quick read of its 400+ reviews on G2 shows that Impact is well loved for its clean and modern user interface and marketing tools, as well as its excellent customer support. Another plus for Impact is its Mobile App Partner Marketplace, which you won’t find elsewhere. It also offers a suite of automation tools to manage your partnerships.
Therefore, if you want to be an affiliate partner for popular mobile apps, Impact.com is the best option for you. It’s also a great option for UK-based affiliates since it offers BACS as a payment option. Read more on how you can join their program here.
2.Amazon Associates
Average commission rate: Ranges from 1% to 10% depending on the category.
Cookie duration: Cookies last for 24 hours. However, if you have people directly add a product to their carts, you’ll get a 90-day cookie but only for the specific product that’s in their carts.
Minimum payout: $10 for Amazon gift card or direct deposit.
If you want to promote physical products on your website, Amazon Associates is a good option.
With Amazon Associates, you can earn a commission on pretty much anything sold at Amazon.com.
What makes this program even more valuable is that you earn a commission on everything new that someone you refer purchases, even if it’s not the product you linked to.
For example, I’ll leave a link this to ths mic. If anyone ends up buying anything else after clicking on this link, I’ll still get the commission.
As long as it’s within the 24 hour cookie duration. Also, the product can’t have already been in that person’s cart.
In the past, Amazon Associates paid you a commission rate based on how much revenue/sales you drove. However, since 2017, Amazon has moved to a flat-rate commission structure where you’re paid a flat percentage based on the category that each product is in:
Niche/product types: Anything sold on Amazon’s website (including products from third-party vendors).
3. Cj Affiliate
Getting paid: This month’s commissions are paid on the 20th or 28th of the following month.
Payment method: Direct deposit or Payoneer.
Minimum payout: $50
CJ Affiliate (formerly known as Commission Junction) is also one of the biggest affiliate networks on the scene, with a market share of 8.15%.
Creating an account with CJ is easy. To become an active member you’ll need to complete seven steps, including filling in your contact information and adding your “promotional property,” i.e., your website or social media accounts.
While CJ is great for beginners, this platform is best if you’re an advanced affiliate or a developer, since CJ has an open developer portal for API access.
4. Shareasale
Getting paid: On the 20th (or nearest business day) of each month, for the previous month’s commissions.
Payment method: Paper check, direct deposit, or Payoneer.
Minimum payout: $50
ShareASale is an affiliate platform, acquired by the AWIN Group in 2017. With tens of awards as a service provider, ShareASale helped the AWIN Group generate $1 billion in revenue for publishers (and $14 billion for advertisers). It’s perfect if you start affiliate marketing with no money, because it’s free to join the network and apply for programs.
The platform has over 16,000 merchants to choose from. So no matter what your niche is, you’ll find a product category or affiliate product for you. With that variety of merchants comes a wide range of commission rates. You’ll find programs that offer 1% commission, all the way up to high-ticket affiliate programs with 300% commission rates, and it’s easy to find real CPA rates.
The best part? Signing up is free and easy to do. You can sign up with either your website or a social media account, which makes it a great option for beginner bloggers or influencers.
5. Clickbank
Getting paid: Weekly or bi-weekly.
Payment method: Check, direct deposit, wire transfer, or Payoneer.
Minimum payout: $50
One of the oldest and most reliable affiliate marketing networks, ClickBank has paid out more than $5 billion in commissions since 1999.
Compared to other networks on this list, signing up and getting verified is easiest with ClickBank. You don’t need to provide a website or social media handle. You simply give it your contact information and you’re able to browse the affiliate marketplace and generate links right away.
It’s worth noting that ClickBank has a much larger range of digital products than it does physical products. So if you’re an influencer (particularly in the health and fitness category) that wants to monetize their content with referrals, ClickBank is an easy option to choose.
6. Rakuten Affiliate Network
Payment methods: Check; Direct Deposit; PayPal
Minimum payment amount: $50
Affiliate program types offered: CPA, CPL, CPS, CPC
Formerly Buy.com, this is another popular affiliate network for e-commerce focusing mostly on physical goods. It’s another decent alternative to Amazon.
Rakuten represents a variety of different industry-standard brands, including Walmart, Sephora, New Balance, etc.
While their platform is smaller than some other top affiliate networks with around 1,000 partners, they are one of the oldest affiliate networks, and dedicated to premium technology.
Niche strengths: Retail Goods, Physical products
7. AWIN
Getting paid: On the 1st and 15th of every month for the previous month’s commissions
Payment method: BACS, international wire transfer, or ACH.
Minimum payout: $20
ShareASale’s owner, AWIN (formerly known as Affiliate Window), was voted best CPS (cost per sale) network 2022 in North America. With over 21,000 brands in the AWIN network, you’ll find it easy to connect with the right merchant here.
According to Robin Young of Fitness Savvy, “Their site is easy to navigate, creating product feeds and custom links is super easy to do, they feature many top advertisers—across the world, but especially good for the UK, I have found—and their customer service is really great.”
Similar to ShareASale, you can sign up with either a website or social media handles, though you do need to pay a small $5 deposit to join the network. You get the deposit back after reaching your first payment threshold.
As Robin mentioned, with a surplus of British brands in the network, UK–based creators and small businesses can easily make AWIN work for them.
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