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    CJ Affiliate

    Score4.3 out of 10
    N/ACJ Affiliate, formerly known as Commission Junction, is an affiliate network and online advertising agency headquartered in Santa Barbara and owned by the Publicis Groupe, a French PR and advertising company. CJ Affiliate's technology offers affiliate personalization, cross-device customer journey campaign management, and a content monetization suite of products for publishers.N/A

    Impact

    Score8.7 out of 10
    N/AImpact Radius is a partner management platform from the company of the same name in Santa Barbara, California. The platform touts tag management without technical assistance for marketers, tracking of all media channels for multi-channel and mobile marketing, call tracking for inbound calls, and affiliate / partner program management capabilities. Central to the platform is the Partner Manager, with its pay-for-performance affiliate management capabilities.N/A

    Trackonomics

    N/AN/ATrackonomics is a suite of tools designed to help content publishers, brands and agencies create, analyze and optimize affiliate content at scale. It is an Impact brand since the March 2021 acquisition. It can be used to track the entire customer journey from click to purchase and discover exactly how much each link or article is worth.N/A
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    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    CJ AffiliateImpactTrackonomics
    Considered Multiple Products
    CJ Affiliate (formerly Commission Junction)
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    Impact
    Chose Impact
    We have used each application together for about the same time and both offer great options for sign ups and pay out set up which is important for us. we chose to add impact because we like to have as many options as possible. CJ Affiliate and Impact are pretty similar with …
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    Chose Impact
    Both help you manage partnership and referral programs. The biggest challenge is that programs can switch between the two and it can make it difficult to update across different products. Fortunately, Impact, etc are good at notifying you ahead of time if a program is moving or …
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    Chose Impact
    Everflow had ok tracking but didn't have a great payment process and their marketplace was geared towards larger marketing conglomerates that we would have had to sign other contracts with. CJ is very comparable in terms of features their marketplace is bigger but the quality …
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    82%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Features
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    Reporting & Analytics
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    Impact
    7.0
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    6% above category average
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    Dashboards00 Ratings7.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Standard reports00 Ratings7.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Custom reports00 Ratings7.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Partner performance analytics00 Ratings7.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Content Management Capabilties
    Comparison of Content Management Capabilties features of CJ Affiliate and Impact and Trackonomics
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    6.6
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    Content management00 Ratings6.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Content sharing00 Ratings7.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Partner collaboration tools00 Ratings7.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Partner Lifecycle Management
    Comparison of Partner Lifecycle Management features of CJ Affiliate and Impact and Trackonomics
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    Impact
    6.4
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    9% below category average
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    Lead distribution00 Ratings6.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Co-op advertising00 Ratings6.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Partner discovery and onboarding00 Ratings7.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Referral tracking00 Ratings6.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Journey builder00 Ratings7.02 Ratings00 Ratings
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    7.3
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    CJ AffiliateImpactTrackonomics
    Likelihood to Recommend
    CJ Affiliate (formerly Commission Junction)
    CJ would be a great place for any publisher looking to monetize their blog or social media accounts. Products that have broad targeting or rely on bargain hunters would perform really well as there are tons of coupon sites and fashion blogs. Niche products would have a harder time growing as they would probably still need to do a lot of outreach.
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    Impact
    Any publisher looking to monetize their blogs would be a great fit. The size of the publisher probably doesn't matter. They have a wide selection of advertisers and publishers can sign up for free. Advertisers that are looking for great partners for their affiliate programs would be good fits. One of the benefits is that Impact really focuses on recruiting high-quality publishers.
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    Pros
    CJ Affiliate (formerly Commission Junction)
    • their portal is easily usable
    • communication within the system is supper easy
    • searching for new affiliates is really great
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    Impact
    • There are no hidden charges and tracking is instant and automated.
    • As an affiliate, Finding relevant offers and managing the programs is quite easy.
    • It has a great user interface which is quite easy to use and manage.
    • There is nearly zero downtime, which makes it much more efficient and reliable.
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    Cons
    CJ Affiliate (formerly Commission Junction)
    • It's a great platform but have selected countries.
    • Sometimes loading speed is too slow in my experience.
    • Customer service needs to be improved in my opinion.
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    Impact
    • User interface could be improved a little, as it is a quite difficult task to find the content or links
    • Approval from the advertisers sometimes takes a huge amount of time. If they can somehow reduce the response time, it will be great
    • New affiliates might find the onboarding process a little difficult
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    Usability
    CJ Affiliate (formerly Commission Junction)
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    Impact
    Impact has had a major impact on our business. It is pretty easy to use if you don't have multiple accounts with them, so be sure you keep things streamlined. Otherwise, it can be confusing if you have to bounce between different accounts you've applied to. While they are managed under a single login, they can be difficult to distinguish between when trying to see how successful your campaigns are.
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    Support Rating
    CJ Affiliate (formerly Commission Junction)
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    Impact
    We've been reaching out requesting support for two months and no one has responded. They completely ghosted us. We've emailed the original sales rep, our account manager, our sales rep and account manager's bosses, and others. Still no response, though I can see the emails have been opened multiple times. I've never experienced worse support.
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    Alternatives Considered
    CJ Affiliate (formerly Commission Junction)
    CJ definitely has the largest pool of publishers and is well built out in terms of features. However, it does appear that they have a lot of dead weight in their pool which is something that their competitors claim they have solved. We ultimately selected CJ because we had previous experience with the platform and wanted to tap into their affiliate pool.
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    Impact
    First promoter has been a phenomenal affiliate platform to use. It has everything I need from a reporting perspective. It has everything I need from a payout perspective. It has all the links, tips, and tools I need for promoting products. Overall it is a far better tool to use
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    Return on Investment
    CJ Affiliate (formerly Commission Junction)
    • we have been able to make a good amount of money
    • we just share the link and then the companies do the rest
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    Impact
    • By using Impact we were able to increase the number of advertisers on our platform.
    • Delayed payments on the part of advertisers or Impact creates so many execution issues.
    • Multi regional campaigns helped us to increase our presens in the market.
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