Affiliate marketing agencies help companies across a variety of industries with building, growing, refining, and expanding their affiliate programs and partnerships. For brands without an affiliate program, most use affiliate marketing software to manage campaigns internally. An affiliate marketing agency can help launch a new era of affiliate management and ensure it’s set up for success. Simply put, an affiliate marketing agency connects users with the right partners (like social media influencers, content creators, or other niche-specific creative types of partners) to help publish and drive traffic in order to increase conversion.
Companies with an affiliate program often want to drive growth, improve the performance or return on ad spend of their campaigns, or expand their program into a new market or region. Affiliate marketing agencies support these various objectives, bringing expertise, efficiencies, customization, strategic support, and scale to a company’s affiliate program. In addition to adding strategic value to companies, affiliate agencies are often retained to manage the day-to-day operations of a program, including performance reporting, compliance and fraud monitoring, and partner application processing.
Some affiliate agencies also provide publisher development services to help their clients attract the right partners to their affiliate programs who align with their business goals. Affiliate agencies can service one region or multiple regions, with a few having global capabilities.