🆚 Impact vs. Rakuten Advertising

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

Type

Affiliate marketing platform
Affiliate marketing platform

About

Impact is a partnership management platform that helps businesses manage and optimize affiliate, influencer, referral, and strategic partner programs from a single system.

It provides tools for partner discovery and recruitment, contract and payment management, cross-channel attribution, fraud detection, performance analytics, and a marketplace with thousands of 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

Free version ✔️For publishers
For advertisers
Starter$30+/month
Essentials$50+/month
For publishersFree ✔️
For advertisersCustom

Categories

Affiliate Marketing › Rank #2
Affiliate Marketing › Rank #9
Loyalty Management › Rank #2
Influencer Marketing › Rank #1

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Impact affiliate marketing platform is 4 times more popular than Rakuten Advertising.
Total websites

Market share

Affiliate Marketing

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Impact is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany, while Rakuten Advertising is more popular in Japan.
United States
Japan
United Kingdom
Germany
France
Spain
Australia
Canada
Italy
India

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Impact is more popular than Rakuten Advertising in all market segments.
Blogs/Wiki
Online Shopping
Marketing/Merchandising
Business
Internet Services
Entertainment
Fashion/Beauty
Travel
Sports
Software/Hardware

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

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