TrustRadius: an HG Insights company

CJ Affiliate

Score4.3 out of 10

7 Reviews and Ratings

Get a Demo

What is CJ Affiliate?

CJ 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.

Categories & Use Cases

Reviews

What users are saying about CJ Affiliate.
View all reviews

Covers all the bases, but has a few drawbacks.

Incentivized
CalDon PreeceView profile
Senior Digital Marketing Analyst in Marketing at VidAngel (11-50 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We just transferred over from another affiliate program software and the difference has been dramatic. CJ has a very large pool of publishers which has made getting results much easier. They also handle the payments to the publishers which is very nice as we had many difficulties when we were manually issuing payments.

Pros

  • Great pool of publishers
  • Pays publishers reliably
  • Server side tracking

Cons

  • Reporting is a bear
  • Correcting transactions could be simpler
  • Loading speed of website is constantly agitating.

Most Important Features

  • Publisher pool
  • Reporting and correcting
  • Payment manager

Return on Investment

  • We've exceeded our sales from our previous program within 2 months of being on the platform
  • Improving relationships with affiliates as payments have been processed on time.
  • Dramatically increased our outreach to publishers

Alternatives Considered

Everflow - Partner Marketing Platform and Impact

Other Software Used

Semrush, Jupyter Notebook, WordPress

A great Product for your company.

Incentivized
Angela Matteson
operations executive in Product Management at Credit Suite (51-200 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use CJ affiliate to set up and maintain affiliate accounts. we needed one place to keep track of all of our different accounts. The set up for their pay out system was really easy. We can easily log in and keep everything well maintained and up to date. We can also communicate easily with each vendor in the system.

Pros

  • their portal is easily usable
  • communication within the system is supper easy
  • searching for new affiliates is really great

Cons

  • promoting new options that are similar to what we have would be helpful

Most Important Features

  • the actual affiliate links
  • communication between new prospects could be easier

Return on Investment

  • we have been able to make a good amount of money
  • we just share the link and then the companies do the rest

Alternatives Considered

Awin

Other Software Used

Awin, Brandfolder

Best platform where you can earn money online

Incentivized
Preeti GautamView profile
Content Manager & Digital Marketer at TBU Media Pty. Ltd. (11-50 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

One of the best worldwide affiliate networks that help my company to earn money within a few months. The best thing about this software is that it is campaign approval and the approval rate is too good. Just in case they decline your application to join, they have a specific reason for it that makes your website better. One more thing that I like about this software is that you can easily track, and check placements and reports.

Pros

  • Easy to use
  • They have a wide variety of affiliate programs.
  • You can easily track campaigns.

Cons

  • 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.

Most Important Features

  • Best platform for earning.
  • Many platforms focused on quantity, but CJ focuses on quantity.

Return on Investment

  • Drive more traffic to our Website.
  • It helps to earn money from products and services.

Alternatives Considered

Everflow - Partner Marketing Platform and Post Affiliate Pro

Other Software Used

Post Affiliate Pro, Everflow - Partner Marketing Platform