According to Forrester Research, 95% of businesses see their affiliate marketing program as a successful method to drive customer acquisition. While affiliate marketing is certainly a powerful tool, it takes skill and experience to know how to use it to its full potential.
Often, the most cost-effective way to go about this in the long run is to hire an affiliate marketing agency. But what are your best options in the field? We curated a list to help you find an affiliate agency that best fits your needs.
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8 Best Affiliate Marketing Services
Here are the eight best professional affiliate marketing services that you can partner with:
1. Vivian Agency
With over 50 successful programs under our belt and a total of $12 million in profits generated for our clients, it’s no surprise we’re at the top of our list.
Vivian agency, which was founded in 2018, offers multiple digital marketing services, including building affiliate, referral, and influencer programs.
Our process begins with determining the best method of affiliate success for your brand based on its industry and then using our in-house audience research methodology to target the best niche affiliates and platforms to work with.
Some industries may benefit the most from SEO work, others from YouTube videos, and some from social media. At Vivian Agency, our affiliate marketing experts are equipped to work with all of these methods.
Compared to many other agencies, we stress the importance of affiliate nurturing and strengthening strong personal connections with affiliates.
Rather than simply market a service, our loyal affiliates are trained to understand your business goals and values, which explains our unique results.
Some of our best achievements include:
- SafetyWing’s affiliate program was built from scratch, creating an affiliate revenue of $380k per month
- Click and Grow, also developed from scratch, increased their annual sales by 187%
- OneWayFly, which brought over 120 active affiliates
You can check out other similar stories and results from our top clients across several industries.
2. Attrock
A successful digital marketing agency with a broad palette of services covering the entire sales funnel, Attrock also offers affiliate marketing services, helping expand existing affiliate networks or build affiliate programs from scratch.
Attrock adopts a holistic approach, analyzing your website and, if you already have one, your affiliate program. The agency will revamp and optimize them to create a stronger base for driving new traffic. Then, it will launch an affiliate campaign that’s best suited to your needs, picking the best affiliate partnerships available and ultimately moving on to affiliate program management.
Among the affiliate marketing agencies listed here, Attrock boasts some of the most impressive partnerships in the SaaS industry, with successful partnerships with names like HubSpot, Semrush, and Sprout Social.
3. CJ Affiliate
The largest affiliate marketing agency in the world, CJ Affiliate has partnered with household names like CNN, Buzzfeed, J.Crew, and NordVPN to develop their affiliate programs. Being trusted by such brands is an endorsement in itself, but CJ Affiliate also has a lot to offer in concrete terms.
CJ (formerly known as Commission Junction) offers a single, unified affiliate platform that you can use to monitor your overall performance, track specific metrics, interact with your affiliate network, create incentives, and optimize your affiliate strategy.
Given its broad array of partners across all industries, you can be assured that CJ Affiliate has the expertise and capacity to help your business gain conversions and boost sales, regardless of its niche.
4. Rakuten Advertising
The Japanese tech giant Rakuten made its way into the affiliate marketing industry, too, where it decided to use the capabilities of artificial intelligence to their full potential. Therefore, Rakuten’s digital marketing division (Rakuten Advertising) developed a uniquely AI-powered affiliate marketing platform.
The help of AI insights helps your business connect with the best affiliate partners, make forecasts based on the latest industry data, and much more. This clever use of AI speeds up the whole affiliate marketing funnel by letting both you and the agency focus on the steps that require a human touch.
Rakuten Advertising also has its own curated network of premium affiliate partners that can help you reliably boost your marketing efforts. This network includes influencers, web portals, and even payment programs.
5. Traffic Dojo Inc
A California-based digital marketing agency, Traffic Dojo specializes in crafting and facilitating full-funnel marketing strategies for its business clients. This includes affiliate marketing services, which were, in fact, the agency’s main focus until its change of business focus in July 2024.
Traffic Dojo still provides affiliate marketing services as part of its broader package of services. The agency’s rich experience across various diverse sectors—such as FinTech, E-commerce, and Gaming—guarantees that your affiliate marketing remains in good hands.
What Traffic Dojo prides itself on is its ability to acquire new leads in a highly cost-effective way by knowing exactly where to look. This saves a lot of time and money and delivers exceptional ROI.
6. NYMO & Co
NYMO & Co is another California-based agency that focuses on helping D2C brands acquire new leads and increase their revenue. You might also know them after the Performance Marketing Spotlight podcast hosted by their CEO, Marshall Nyman.
The agency provides two main services: Affiliate Marketing Consulting and Affiliate Marketing Strategy. While the former is limited to providing advice and support for your existing affiliate program, the latter lets the agency directly manage your program, developing a more effective strategy and optimizing it as necessary.
NYMO & Co’s services are mainly marketed towards small, emerging brands looking to make high-value partnerships and develop while still in their early phase. The Affiliate Marketing Strategy package is the perfect choice for such clients, letting them outsource their marketing efforts to trusted experts and saving money in the long run.
7. AffiliateMotion
In only two years of existence, AffiliateMotion has already managed to become one of the best-performing affiliate marketing services—thanks to the experience of its founder, Simos Vlassis, an entrepreneur with a career of 17 years in the affiliate marketing industry.
AffiliateMotion offers a free consultation, where you can discuss which of the agency’s comprehensive suite of services is the right choice for you and your business goals. The full suite takes care of your entire affiliate marketing funnel, from recruitment to compliance monitoring.
One of the biggest advantages of AffiliateMotion’s services is its option to hire dedicated account managers who can recruit, vet, and oversee new affiliates, providing them with training and continuous guidance.
8. Clique Affiliate Marketing
As one of the oldest agencies on this list in continuous operation, Clique has been in the affiliate marketing business for an impressive 18 years. This gave them enough space to learn how to handle each complexity of affiliate marketing and develop the unique CliqueNAV model that focuses on publisher diversification to attract new customers.
While they are open to working with all industries, Clique’s specialization, based on expertise with previous clients, is in the following niches: Outdoors, Sports, Lifestyle, Health & Wellness, Home & Garden, and Motorsports.
As a nifty feature, the agency’s website also offers a Readiness Quiz to help you see if you have the prerequisites ready to succeed in your affiliate marketing efforts.
Wrapping Up
Each of the affiliate marketing services we’ve mentioned has unique strengths that make it the perfect choice for a certain category of clients.
While you may find that another agency may be better suited to your needs, we invite you to try Vivian Agency’s services first. It’s our humble belief that our services strike the ideal balance to suit most clients’ needs, regardless of their industry or the size of their business. The various success stories coming from brands of many different stripes all attest to that.
So, if you need affiliate marketing services to help you develop or improve an affiliate marketing program of your own, write to us or book a video call so we can discuss your ideas and help make them a reality.
