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Commission Junction
Easily the best affiliate network overall that a merchant can work with if they can generate enough sales to pay for the setup fees and monthly minimum fees. CJ's fee to setup new advertiser accounts is $2250 and their minimum monthly fees are $500 a month. I consider CJ the best affiliate network for large merchants.
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| Fees and Requirements Setup Fee: $2250 Requres $3000 in escrow or more to pay your affiliates with Minimum Monthly Fee $500 Commission Rate: 20 to 30 percent of affiliate payout Contract Length: One year typically |
Benefits Supports pay per sale and pay per lead programs. Issues checks to affiliates rather than requiring you to or charging extra fees to do such as Linkshare and Befree do. Combines affiliate payments from many programs including yours to encourage affiliates to use any and all links possible including yours. Lists merchant fees clearly on their site unlike Befree and Linkshare. A definite sign of belief in their service. Has better good will from the affiliate community than Befree and Linkshare do. Offers a nonexclusive contract for all merchants allowing a merchant to use other affiliate providers if desired as well. Pays affiliates in multiple currencies and via bank transfer ensuring as many affiliates as possible can use a merchant's program regardless of their location in the world or the currency used on the merchant's site. |
Major Merchants Ebay Overture New York Times Yahoo Personals USA Today Warner Brothers Match.com Discover Card |
Company History
1998 Founded
August 1999 Raised $7 million in capital from Cybercash.
April 2000 Raised $40 million in Venture captial funding from various partners.
Feb 14, 2001 Launches office in UK
April 18, 2001 Ebay launches affiliate program run through CJ.
July 11, 2001 Launches the CJ Open Marketplace which is a collection of stats designed to give affiliates comparitive data about how affiliate programs in CJ compare to each other as far as revenue generated. Metrics given include earnings per 100 affiliate clicks, EPC.
Jul 31, 2001 Announces agreement with Yahoo Stores in which Yahoo will promote CJ's affiliate program opportunities to its store members.
August 1, 2001 The company ceases to offer any cost per click programs. Interestingly enough when Microsoft's Clicktrade shutdown its publishers were referred to CJ and many went to CJ in search of pay per click programs like Clicktrade once had.
August 21, 2001 Microsoft offers CJ affiliate services to their BCentral Clients.
March 28, 2003 CJ institutes the "Productive Publisher Policy" that charges publishes for inactive accounts and closes all publisher accounts that have had no activity for six months time.
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