CJ can help you leverage your current US affiliate marketing and ecommerce tools to facilitate Chinese cross-border shopping. According to eMarketer, ...

Tax services is one of the hottest advertiser categories in Q1 with its first sales peak hitting in late January/early February. Think this category ...

To learn how affiliate marketers can best convert the increased interest in travel purchasing during Q1, CJ Affiliate turned to Sarah Bundy at the ...

A review of last year’s affiliate shopping trends and what they mean for holiday 2018. One of the best guides to anticipate what will work for this ...

You’ve determined your Q4 strategy through promotional planning, historical analysis, and account review by reading our post How to Plan a Successful ...

Q4 can be a busy time of year, as affiliate managers hustle to schedule and coordinate brand and site promotions as well as ensure they meet program ...

Tracking affiliate engagement, influence, and transactions across both mobile and web environments is essential for a holistic understanding of true ...

A comprehensive product feed, also known as a product catalog, can enable opportunities between advertisers and publishers across all levels and ...

Influencer Marketing remains a hot button topic. But what does it all mean for you and affiliate? I’m a gamer off hours; there’s nothing I love more ...

Before jumping into affiliate, it’s important to assess what you’ll need to bring to the table. Many publishers dive in and expect quick results, but ...

As one of Q4’s largest shopping events, Free Shipping Day is a cost-effective means of driving last-minute holiday sales and boosting brand presence. ...

Recently, we shared the top reasons an advertiser would want to reach out to their publishers, like sharing program, company, and promotional ...

Proper communication with your publishers is key to managing a successful affiliate program. But where do you start? This is a common question we ...

The affiliate space is an exceptionally relationship-oriented industry, and thus communication is key for any successful affiliate program.  A common ...

Since launch on May 24, we’ve shared a lot about what Cross-Device is, how it works, and why it’s valuable to you. But now that you’re informed on ...

Publisher Groups allow you to organize publishers into categories or segments within your affiliate program. For example, you can build groups based ...

A key to growing your affiliate program is to understand how to communicate successfully with your publishers, and finding what works best to convert ...

The CJ Affiliate network is an expansive eco-system of advertisers and publishers that is constantly growing, offering both parties countless ...

Recently, our Senior Director of Publisher Development, Sarah Crosby, sat down with influencer marketing blog and software provider, GroupHigh. In ...

Here at CJ, we have no shortage of data. Everything you need to know about your consumers is flowing through our system, the CJ Account Manager ...

Recently, one of our publishers said to me, “I didn’t know that your APIs at CJ did that!” After speaking with some other clients, it became clear ...

Here at CJ Affiliate, we’re passionate about a number of critical things: how we can move the affiliate industry forward, enable client success, and ...

The end of the year is full of retail shopping days that we plan for in a big way, all the way up to Christmas Day. Yet generations of UK and ...

Developing an international publisher base and “Going Global” is always a topic of conversation within the affiliate channel. Although many ...

Now that we're well into Q4, are you ready to celebrate the holidays? If you're like me, you're ready to gobble down that turkey on November 24! But ...

According to our 2016 Holiday Intelligence Report, shoppers this holiday season will likely dedicate more of their holiday spend to gifts of ...

*You must be logged into the CJ Account Manager Support Center for the links in this article to be active. To recap from Tuesday's blog post and ...

*You must be logged into the CJ Account Manager Support Center for the links in this article to be active. We're back again with two more affiliate ...

*You must be logged into the CJ Account Manager Support Center for the links in this article to be active. Publisher diversification strategies can ...

Note: You must be logged into the CJ Account Manager Support Center for the links in this article to be active. A great way to motivate publishers to ...

October is almost here and with it comes the beginning of the holiday season; fall leaves lead to pumpkin flavored everything, which spills over into ...

In a survey fielded to 6,000 content creators, 1,200 consumers, and 150 top brand markets, 31 percent of respondents found blogs to be the online ...

Here at CJ Affiliate, we are always preparing for Q4. One great way to do this is to run an activation campaign in Q3 to ensure that you are ...

In this, the first of a three-part blog series, CJ Affiliate's Strategic Insights Director, Sandrine Thompson, will present forward-thinking ...

There are a few ways to go about international expansion within the affiliate channel. Which route to take is dependent on a few variables based on ...

In the last few years there has been an influx of bloggers making their way into the affiliate arena. Why? Bloggers and influencers have more of an ...

Affiliate marketing isn't just about helping advertisers and publishers, it's also about helping consumers find the products and services they want. ...

The CJ Affiliate network is composed of publishers in nearly all the populated regions of the world; and millennials are one of the largest ...

We're pleased to announce the launch of our most advanced service offering yet: Affiliate Customer Insights. Originally unveiled in September of ...

We are honored to announce that CJ Affiliate by Conversant won two 2016 Performance Marketing Awards at the April 26 ceremony in London. After being ...

CJ is pleased to announce enhancements to our ViewThrough tracking technology, which allows advertisers to commission publishers on an ad impression ...

One of our primary goals at CJ Affiliate is to make your affiliate marketing journey as smooth as possible. Often times, affiliate managers find that ...

There's a lot to think about when you're setting up your CJ account. There's technical integration, your network profile, program terms, and more. Of ...

Springtime is fast approaching, and whether you're already easing into warmer weather on the west coast or still waiting for that heat wave to hit ...

Drawing from findings by CJ's Strategic Insights Director Sandrine Thompson, see how trends in the areas of mobile, global, audience, and content ...

As a new year starts it's easy to be so focused on rolling out new campaigns that you forget all about your affiliate tracking code. If your account ...

As a member of the Publisher Development team, I am always searching for new advertisers to recommend to publishers. Like a baseball scout looking to ...

With Valentine's Day less than two weeks away, shoppers are just about ready to finalize their buying decisions. Last year's data suggests that sales ...

All the lights are down, Christmas trees composted, and decorations put away. The holidays may be over, but I gathered some great insights from the ...

While some find relief that the hustle and bustle of the holidays has passed, others recognize that the New Year marks the start of another important ...

Feeling the holiday fallout yet? While the fourth quarter is a huge driver for many affiliates, the winter doldrums offer creative opportunities to ...

Are you constantly tasked with lowering your cost per action (CPA) while also maintaining or exceeding revenue goals? This can be very frustrating, ...

In follow up to part one of this series, we continue our interview with Tim Katlic, Head of Marketing at Savings.com, as he discusses best practices ...

Here at CJ Affiliate we continue to seek growth in the trademark bidding sector. For those not yet familiar with the practice, trademark bidding is ...

We’ve all been there—completely confused and looking for a quick resolution. We follow our impulse to immediately call the 800 number or send an ...

The Rolodex was once a marketer’s most prized possession. It represented a career-long accumulation of connections and relationships. This desktop ...

With Q4 madness right around the corner, it's important to find a way to make your brand—and your holiday promotions—stand out. As an advertiser, ...

Black Friday and Cyber Monday aren't the only shopping holidays coming up this month. The recently identified "Singles Day", taking place on 11/11 ...

If you're reading this, you've likely experienced the long and arduous process of either searching for paid placement opportunities or, as a ...

With the holiday season fast approaching, bloggers and content Publishers all over the web are planning their Holiday Gift Guides. These popular ...

Are you ready for the upcoming holiday season? With Q4 upon us and just 52 days until Black Friday, it's time to start thinking about how to best ...

Today's always-on, multi-channel ecosystem has impacted consumer buying behavior, brand loyalty, and overall lifetime value (LTV). Now is the time to ...

Summer vacations are over and kids are back to school, leaving retailers enough time to take a breath before the year's busiest shopping season hits. ...

Have you tried applying to an Advertiser's program only to be stuck in "pending" forever or, worse, swiftly declined? It's a frustration many ...

I work with CJ's awesome Content Team, but at heart, I'm a blogger—a blogger who's always excited to start new relationships. That said, like most ...

Within the affiliate marketing space, compliance serves as an integral part of maintaining the Advertiser-Publisher relationship. There are "smash ...

Within the digital marketing space, the affiliate channel is unique. While other channels rely on automation and programmatic buying, the success of ...

June 26 marked the first in a series of insightful webinars from one of CJ's affiliate marketing experts, Director of Strategic Insights Sandrine ...

Forecasts expect a robust holiday sales season in which online sales growth will again outpace overall retail sales. Emarketer projects that ...

As shopping events go, the Back-to-School shopping season is a big deal for retailers—for a third straight year, forecasts show online spending for ...

Father's Day 2014 shopping begins in earnest as soon as the calendar page turns to June. In anticipation, CJ Insights has analyzed the 2013 sales ...

Across CJ's global network, the impact of mobile this holiday season is already evident. From Thanksgiving through Cyber Monday, over 15 percent of ...

In the competitive world of online commerce, understanding consumer behavior is critical to success. Yet, at best, marketers cobble together click ...

Did you know that more than half of US online shoppers make purchases on their mobile devices? In fact, an eMarketer mobile commerce forecast ...

A confluence of rare events will likely make this year's holiday shopping season a bit different than years past. The three events with the greatest ...

If you feel like Christmas offers come earlier each year, this year you'll definitely feel like Christmas starts in October. That's because there are ...

Google celebrates its 15th birthday this year and during their big party last week revealed a new search algorithm change, leaving search marketers ...

We are thrilled to announce that CJ Affiliate now has a Deep Link Generator that allows publishers to create a deep link to a product or promotion ...

As shopping events go, the Back-to-School shopping season is a big deal for retailers. The National Retail Federation last year forecasted K-12 and ...

The principals of Gen3 Marketing, Andy Cantos and Mike Tabasso, have been successfully managing affiliate marketing programs since the turn of the ...

We have had several new PayPerCall account launches recently and encourage you to pick them up and start promoting today! InsideUp InsideUp is a ...

Father's Day gift buying is about to take off, and most gifts this year—59 percent of purchases—will be bought online, according to a recent survey ...

Today, I would like to explore how applications can be designed differently if logging were not treated as an afterthought or debugging tool, but as ...

Since becoming a mother, I realize just how much parents sacrifice for their children and I feel compelled more than ever to find a really great ...

Things move fast at CJ. In order for us to keep up with the demands and shifting landscapes of affiliate marketing, we need to be able to adapt ...

I consider myself a friend of nature but I am helpless against Mother Nature's strongest weapon: allergy season. The runny nose, the sneezing, and ...

Day light savings. As much as I dislike waking up an hour early, this day marks the beginning of longer days and prolonged sunlight in the evening. ...

I am a huge Boston Redsox fan, so as you can image it was very frustrating watching their 2012 season literally fall apart in front of my eyes. "How ...

Springtime comes closer for us Californians, a luxury we take for granted. Indoor couch potatoes start coming out of their homes to enjoy the sun, ...

A few weeks ago, I gave a quick overview of our entire technology stack here at Commission Junction and now it's time to dig deeper into how we ...

Valentine's Day has always been a special holiday for me, not only because I get to spend it with my significant other, but also because it marks the ...

If you've been inside CJ Account Manager lately, you've probably noticed the new publisher Home tab our product and engineering teams recently ...

I have a confession: I'm a huge "Back to the Future" fan, especially Part II. Yet, for all the futuristic gadgets and life-changing new products the ...

Greetings! As Director of Engineering here at CJ Affiliate, I'd like to officially welcome you to the CJ Technology blog series, where we intend to ...

In affiliate marketing, it sometimes seems like we live and die by the calendar. Maybe it's just me, but I'm usually thinking about a major holiday ...

As I sit here outside the ski lodge waiting for my dad and brother to finish their last ski run of the day, I realize that if it weren't for their ...

How incremental are the sales of the affiliate channel? You could say that is, literally, a million-dollar question, because marketers factor this ...

Abandon Cart! Abandon Cart! It's Sunday morning, and you are surfing your favorite online store, adding a handful of items to your shopping cart, ...

Vigilantly working on the front lines at CJ, our Support Teams serve a dual role – as the eyes and ears of the CJ Network. Think back to your last ...

What does "Trim" (off the weight, not the x-mas tree), Taxes (they're certain), Textbooks (school is back in session), and Travel (everyone needs a ...

Twitter me this: in the vast online social media eco-system, who is the smartest and wisest social media management tool of them all? Ask over 5 ...

Don’t think holiday shopping means serious affiliate business? Think again. Last week comScore reported that Black Friday sales topped $1 billion for ...