🆚 CJ vs. Rakuten Advertising

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

Type

Affiliate marketing platform
Affiliate marketing platform

About

CJ is an affiliate marketing network that connects advertisers with publishers to promote products and services through performance-based partnerships.

It provides cross-device tracking, real-time performance reporting, deep-linking to specific product pages, product feeds and promotional assets, and a marketplace used by over 3,800 brands.

Rakuten Advertising, formerly known as LinkShare, is an affiliate marketing service provider that connects advertisers with publishers who promote products and earn commissions from tracked sales or leads.

It operates a global affiliate network with more than 150,000 publishers and provides AI-driven partner discovery that recommends publishers by category. The platform also offers tools for modeling and forecasting campaign results using network data, and supports first-touch and last-touch attribution.

Headquarters

Santa Barbara, California, United States
Tokyo, Japan

Website

Pricing

For publishersFree ✔️
For advertisers
One-time network access fee$3,000
For publishersFree ✔️
For advertisersCustom

Categories

Affiliate Marketing › Rank #8
Affiliate Marketing › Rank #9

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The CJ affiliate marketing platform is as popular as Rakuten Advertising.
Total websites

Market share

Affiliate Marketing

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

CJ is more popular in the United States, the Czech Republic, and Canada, while Rakuten Advertising is more popular in Japan, the United Kingdom, and France.
United States
Japan
United Kingdom
Czech Republic
Canada
Germany
France
Australia
Italy
Brazil

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

CJ is more popular among sites focused on online shopping, business, and travel, while Rakuten Advertising is more commonly used on blogs and wiki, marketing and merchandising, and fashion and beauty sites.
Online Shopping
Blogs/Wiki
Marketing/Merchandising
Fashion/Beauty
Business
Travel
Entertainment
Sports
General News
Software/Hardware

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

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