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Katie Spurkeland

Jul 15, 2026

Prioritize Revenue Protection Against Ad Blockers and Privacy Changes with…

Partnerize is leading the charge in future-proofing your program. While our underlying infrastructure is already built to withstand ongoing browser changes, true resilience requires a complimentary solution to safeguard against ...

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Katie Spurkeland

Jul 09, 2026

Bring Mobile App Events into the Partnership Fold with the New Mobile SDK…

Operate from a holistic view of results with the Partnerize Mobile SDK, a mobile app event tracking solution that empowers brands with mobile apps to capture in-app events–insight that ...

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Katie Spurkeland

Jul 01, 2026

Insights in Your Inbox: How Partnerize Scheduled Reports Streamlines Global…

Partnerize puts the reporting you need in your inbox when you need it most with the ability to schedule reports, the latest enhancement to the platform’s reporting suite.

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Katie Spurkeland

Jun 23, 2026

Plug the Leaks: How to Stop Losing Partnership Channel Revenue to Broken…

Partnerize eliminates the friction of manual link updates with easily-implemented functionality that automates tedious tasks and offers immediate payoffs so that you can stay focused on driving results.

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Katie Spurkeland

May 27, 2026

Redefining Partner Incentives: Why the Click is No Longer Your System of…

Continuing to evaluate your modern partnerships through a legacy, click-based lens is no longer just a reporting issue—it is a strategic liability. If your infrastructure cannot verify and reward ...

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Katie Spurkeland

May 12, 2026

Why the Partnerize Tag is Partners’ Secret Sauce for Programmatic Growth

As the digital landscape continues to make seismic shifts, the pressure on partners to maintain persistent tracking and relevant content has never been higher.

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Katie Spurkeland

May 07, 2026

Beyond the Last Click: Rethinking Incrementality for the Modern Marketer

For too long, the partnership industry has relied on a last-click model that treats every conversion as equal. But in a landscape where consumer journeys are increasingly fragmented, simply counting ...

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Katie Spurkeland

May 04, 2026

The Partnership Audit: Why Strategic Level-Setting is the First Step to…

In the current market, "business as usual" has become a high-risk strategy. As the consumer journey evolves, the metrics that defined success yesterday—total clicks and top-line volume—are no ...

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Katie Spurkeland

Apr 01, 2026

Commission with Precision: How Parameter-Level Data Unlocks Sub-Affiliate…

Deploying a tactical commissioning strategy requires advertisers to pass and optimize granular metadata–tracking optimization that has shifted from a "nice-to-have" to a strategic necessity. Partnerize enables advertisers to evolve ...

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Katie Spurkeland

Mar 10, 2026

[Download] The Rise of Strategic Waiting: Winning the 2026 Promotional…

In the current machine-mediated market, where AI overviews and chatbots often intercept the consumer journey before a click happens, simply "being there" isn't enough. Brands must lean into these key ...

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Katie Spurkeland

Sep 22, 2025

[DOWNLOAD] Get Ready to Win Q4: Your Holiday Partnership Program Checklist

The holiday shopping season is here, and with plenty of revenue potential at stake, it’s never too soon to prepare. To ensure your brand earns a piece of the ...

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Katie Spurkeland

Sep 17, 2025

[DOWNLOAD] Rethinking Incrementality in Affiliate Measurement

In a time of economic uncertainty, advertisers are favoring channels that promise to deliver the best results. However, without the right measurement tools, performance metrics can be inaccurate, leading to ...

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Katie Spurkeland

Jun 04, 2025

Partners, Strengthen Your Collaboration Negotiations with Dynamic Payment…

Partnerize provides advertisers with the software and tools necessary to optimize their diverse partnerships. For partners, knowing what these tools are and how they can benefit your campaigns enables you ...

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Katie Spurkeland

May 15, 2025

New to the Partnerize Tag: Deliver on Your New Customer Acquisition Goals…

Accelerate activation of brand-to-brand partnerships with Sovendus, a brand partnership provider that supports post-purchase promotion sharing across a curated network of complementary brands.

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Katie Spurkeland

May 06, 2025

Boost AOV: Introducing Integrated Brand Partnerships in Partnerize via…

Expanding partner makeup to include complimentary brands is easier than ever with the Partnerize x Tyviso integration, a turnkey brand-to-brand partnerships via the Partnerize Tag.

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Katie Spurkeland

Apr 22, 2025

New Integrated Partner: Easily Unlock a Brand-to-Brand Revenue Stream with…

Partnerize supports advertisers in diversifying their partnerships to include brands with BrandSwap, the latest addition to our integrated partner ecosystem.

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Katie Spurkeland

Apr 08, 2025

[Download] Last Click vs. Spend Allocation: Leveraging Path-to-Purchase…

The increase in channel newcomers has sparked conversation around equitable rewards and commission attribution, with many partners unclear on the logic behind why they may (or may not) have been ...

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Katie Spurkeland

Apr 02, 2025

Partnerize Expands Integrated Partner Ecosystem to Include Amazon Revenue…

Partnerize prioritizes creating an optimal experience for partners, most recently expanding our partnership ecosystem to include Artemis Ads, an Amazon Approved Verified Partner Network that enables discovery and monetization of ...

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Katie Spurkeland

Feb 12, 2025

[Case Study] Dynamic Commissioning is the Gift that Keeps on Giving for…

With Partnerize dynamic commissioning, the brand saw immediate results with their target partner during their 30-day test period including a 436% increase in YoY conversions and a 66% increase in YoY traffic ...

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Katie Spurkeland

Jan 14, 2025

Last Click vs. Spend Allocation: Finding the Right Partner Reward Structure…

In the partnership marketing channel, there is a conversation around equitable rewards and commission attribution, with many partners unclear on the logic behind why they may (or may not) have ...

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Katie Spurkeland

Jan 06, 2025

Partners, Unlock Amazon Revenue Opportunities Directly in Partnerize

Dedicated to creating an optimal experience for partners as they promote their favorite brands, Partnerize teamed up with PartnerBoost to make tracking links for more than 500K+ products and 2K ...

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Katie Spurkeland

Dec 11, 2024

New Integrated Partner: Prescient AI Equips Advertisers with Advanced…

Leveraging measurement, forecasting, and optimization models that take into account the entirety of your cross-channel digital mix is paramount to success.

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Katie Spurkeland

Dec 05, 2024

For this Fortune 500 Company, Partnership Management is Not…

Among an extensive list of global brands, a Fortune 500 provider of technology and subscriptions leverages Partnerize to discover, track, optimize and reward their partners.

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Katie Spurkeland

Nov 25, 2024

[Download] Be a Holiday Hero with Advertiser and Partner Pro Tips from…

Prepare for this year’s unprecedented holiday shopping season with Partnerize's Be a Holiday Hero: 2024 Q4 Partnership Playbook, the holiday shopping prep guide that puts you on track to maximize ...

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Katie Spurkeland

Nov 15, 2024

[Download] Lean into Partner Type-Specific Strategy for Cyber Weekend…

Make the most of each partner category with optimizations that are catered to the strengths of each partner type. Partnerizes helps you develop this plan in our guide, Spread the ...

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Katie Spurkeland

Oct 09, 2024

First to Market: Partnerize Shopify App Update Solves Affiliate Tracking…

Partnerize is committed to delivering flexible, future-proofed tracking solutions for advertisers–a suite of options that includes streamlined integrations with leading ecommerce platforms including Shopify. The latest version of our ...

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Katie Spurkeland

Oct 08, 2024

Partnership Optimization: 5 Ways to Combat 2024 Holiday Shopping Season…

In addition to considering key shopping holidays, data-driven budget allocation, and right-fit placement opportunities during the holiday season, marketers must anticipate how macroeconomic and cultural shifts will affect their strategy.

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Katie Spurkeland

Sep 17, 2024

[Download] Incrementality and Partnerships: Measure Affiliate Success on…

More than half of US consumers trust affiliate marketing–an encouraging statistic for marketers working to instill confidence in their digital experiences amidst uneasiness of safety, privacy and validity of ...

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Katie Spurkeland

Sep 03, 2024

New to Partnerize: Create a Branded Experience at Partners’ First…

Effectively optimizing partnerships requires advertisers to tailor experiences based on the unique needs of individual or segments of partners–strategy that lays groundwork for mutually beneficial relationships.

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Katie Spurkeland

Aug 02, 2024

[Content Hub] Head Back to the Classroom with Partnerize

Partnerize is helping you with your homework with our Back-to-School Content Hub, your one-stop-shop for building and deploying a strategy that helps you toP make the most of the back-to-school ...

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Katie Spurkeland

Jul 23, 2024

What the Google Third-Party Cookie Deprecation Pivot Means for You

Partnerize continues to support advertisers in future-proofing their tracking with a range of best-in-class of tracking solutions–optionality that allow marketers to meet the needs of their unique businesses when ...

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Katie Spurkeland

Jul 16, 2024

[Download] 8 “Musts” to Set Your Partnerships Up for Success

Set your partnerships up for success by downloading our latest eBook to understand ‘musts’ that allow you to maximize revenue in the coming months, prioritize action items that posture your ...

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Katie Spurkeland

Jul 02, 2024

[Download] Learn How to Deploy an Effective Back-to-School Strategy

Consumers are projected to spend 3% more year-over-year preparing students for the upcoming school season with sales reaching $81B. As brands across apparel, technology, accessory and office categories prepare to capture ...

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Katie Spurkeland

Jun 12, 2024

Reach Target Audiences with 15-30 Second TV Ads Through the Partnerize x…

Advertisers using the Partnerize Tag can easily integrate with tvScientific on a performance-based model–a payment structure for 15-30 second TV ads that is exclusive to tvScientific.

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Katie Spurkeland

Apr 30, 2024

Partnerize x Pushly Integrated Partnership: Easily Reach and Convert…

Partnerize supports marketers in automating their personalization strategy with our latest integrated partnership: Pushly.

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Katie Spurkeland

Apr 24, 2024

Google Chrome Extends Cookie Deprecation Deadline. What Does This Mean for…

Google Chrome has, once again, extended its timeline for third-party cookie deprecation to 2025. It's important to emphasize that while yet another delay might be tempting to put tracking updates on ...

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Katie Spurkeland

Apr 03, 2024

Build Out Your Q2 Marketing Campaigns with Key Shopping Holidays

Optimization Tip: Prepare for the upcoming shopping holidays by ensuring that you have the right partners in place to reach and engage your target audience.

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Katie Spurkeland

Apr 02, 2024

Evaluate the True Impact of Partnerships in Your Reporting Source of Truth…

Partnerize prioritizes up-to-date integrations with leading analytics, attribution and data warehouse tools–functionality that enables brands to integrate their partnership program data into their existing data provider.

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Katie Spurkeland

Mar 19, 2024

[Download] Evolve Beyond Last Click with Spend Allocation Tools from…

While the partner channel gives marketers necessary payment flexibility to achieve omnipresence, evolving beyond the channel’s historical last-click payment model is the secret sauce for maximizing the benefits of ...

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Katie Spurkeland

Nov 08, 2023

Partnerize x Envolve Integration Partnership

Partnerize continues to support brands facing consumer conversion challenges with the latest addition to our integrated partner ecosystem, Envolve–technology that deploys an on-site virtual shopping assistant providing consumers with 24/7 ...

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Katie Spurkeland

Nov 02, 2023

Be a Holiday Hero: Your 2023 Q4 Partnership Playbook

To ensure that all of the partnership boxes are ticked and bows are tied, Partnerize has developed Be a Holiday Hero: 2022 Q4 Partnership Playbook, a step-by-step guide that ensures no ...

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Katie Spurkeland

Oct 27, 2023

Partnerize x Soreto Integrated Partnership: Easily Turn Customers Into…

Partnerize streamlines integration with one of the leading social commerce partners, Soreto, with one-click deployment through the Partnerize Tag. As a result, marketers can easily incent consumers to share their ...

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Katie Spurkeland

Sep 21, 2023

[Download] Partnerize Tracking Solutions: Power Your Partnership Channel…

Driving profitable growth inside the partnership channel requires partnerships to be optimized by data-driven insights. And, garnering accurate, actionable data hinges on reliable tracking–a critical foundation to any partnership ...

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Katie Spurkeland

Sep 14, 2023

Choose Your Own Finish Line: Measuring Success with Partnerize's KPI…

Partnerize gives marketers the single destination reporting and visuals they need to quickly and easily get a pulse check on unique goals with the KPI dashboard, a real-time tracking hub ...

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Katie Spurkeland

Aug 30, 2023

[Download] School's in Session: Learn How to Deploy an Effective…

When developing your back to school strategy, make the most of each partner category with optimizations that are catered to the strengths of each partner type.

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Katie Spurkeland

Aug 22, 2023

Must-Know Details Surrounding Ongoing Browser Changes that Help Performance…

To ensure that reporting is accurate and partners are equitably rewarded, brands must implement future-proofed tracking infrastructure–solutions made easily accessible by Partnerize. Learn more about Partnerize’s tracking solutions ...

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Katie Spurkeland

Aug 08, 2023

Affiliate Best Practice: 6 Pro Tips for Serving Up Creative Content that…

Because delivering relevant, accurate creative is a brands’ accountability to serve partners of all types across all verticals, ensure that you are serving up content that fuels partner campaigns with ...

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Katie Spurkeland

Jul 27, 2023

5 Strategies to Turn Influencers into Sales Machines

Here are 5 strategies to scale your influencer marketing program. If you're looking for influencer tips to improve your revenue, read this.

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Katie Spurkeland

Jul 20, 2023

It's Here: On-the-Go Partner Management via the Partnerize Mobile App

Partnerize has responded to mobile’s rise to becoming an integral part of daily routines with a mobile app experience–functionality that lets you keep a pulse on your partnerships ...

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Katie Spurkeland

Jul 05, 2023

[On-Demand Event] Incrementality and Partnerships: Measure Success on Your…

As macroeconomic challenges continue to make a global impact on brands and their marketing dollars, what is holding marketers back from leaning into affiliate and partnerships, a risk-averse, pay-for-performance channel ...

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Katie Spurkeland

Jun 13, 2023

Reserve Your Spot: Explore Incrementality and Partnerships with Partnerize…

Reserve your spot now for Partnerize’s session on Wednesday, June 21st at 10 AM EST. You can also sign up to catch presentations from Summer Camp participants and leading digital ...

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Katie Spurkeland

Jun 07, 2023

Destination Success: Partnerize Software Enables Travel Brands to Go the…

There's good news for travel marketers new to the channel or languishing on another partnership management platform: Partnerize offers innovative software solutions that make managing your travel partnerships easy.

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Katie Spurkeland

May 17, 2023

7 Tips To Make Influencer Partnership Programs Successful

Marketers need easy access to the tools necessary for finding, recruiting and optimizing influencers as a part of their diversified partner makeup. The Partnerize platform enables marketers to maximize the ...

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Katie Spurkeland

Apr 19, 2023

Quick Guide: Ensure Sub-Affiliate Partners are Equitably Rewarded for the…

Partnerize makes garnering and commissioning on sub-affiliate activity easy with the ability to uncover partner-level data—insight into touchpoints that brings greater clarity to partner channel transactions. By implementing parameters ...

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Katie Spurkeland

Apr 05, 2023

Incorporate Mobile App Events Into Your Partner Channel Success Story with…

Download our quick guide on maximizing partner channel revenue with persistent tracking across device types to understand the role that mobile app tracking infrastructure plays in making data-driven decisions.

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Katie Spurkeland

Jan 25, 2023

The Partnership Channel: A Scalable Alternative to Subsidize Primary Sales…

With innovative software, marketers pull back the curtain on what was once a data black box to gain visibility into the incremental value partnership channel conversions deliver to broader business ...

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Katie Spurkeland

Jan 20, 2023

Introducing Partnerize’s Future-Proofed Tracking Hub, Preparing for a…

As a part of our commitment to creating awareness around this macro-level challenge, we’ve created Preparing for a Cookieless Future, a resource hub that keeps marketers in-the-know when it ...

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Katie Spurkeland

Jan 09, 2023

[Download] The Partnerize Tag: Future-Proofed Tracking that Drives Success…

Exacerbating these hurdles, marketers are faced with macro-level challenges including rising advertising costs, spiking inflation and retail profit warnings. Emerging as an opportunity to overcome these issues are partnerships, providing ...

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Katie Spurkeland

Dec 08, 2022

[DOWNLOAD] Actionable Takeaways for Pushing Excess Inventory on Free…

Learn more about how Partnerize supports marketers in overcoming macro-level challenges by downloading 7 Action Items for Combating Inflation and Excess Inventory Challenges, our guide that provides easily-implemented partner optimizations and ...

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Katie Spurkeland

Dec 05, 2022

Be a Holiday Hero: Q4 Pro Tips for Brands & Partners

Although marketers are facing evolving macro-level challenges that create layers of complexity for 2022 holiday shopping season, traditional steps for partner program Q4 prep cannot be overlooked. To ensure that all ...

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Katie Spurkeland

Nov 18, 2022

[Download] Holiday Planning 2022: Setting Your Partnership Program Up for…

To help the effort, Partnerize has created a holiday planning eBook filled with holiday 2022 considerations, advanced planning strategies, optimization tactics, plus more. You can download the eBook right here.

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Katie Spurkeland

Oct 26, 2022

7 Action Items for Combating Inflation and Excess Inventory Challenges with…

Marketers faced with the challenge of disburdening themselves of excess inventory while enticing budget-conscious audiences with their holiday promotions should lean into the partnership channel for its ability to find ...

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Katie Spurkeland

Oct 17, 2022

Holiday Season Prep: 5 Tips for Staying Engaged with Your Partners

Half of consumers intend to kick off their holiday shopping by Halloween–‘holiday creep’ fueled by inflation, inventory challenges and shipping delays among other retailer hurdles. With Partnerize, marketers have ...

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Katie Spurkeland

Oct 13, 2022

[Webinar] The Cookieless Future Is Here. Is Your Performance Tracking Ready?

Reserve your spot for our eMarketer Tech Talk webinar on Tuesday, October 18th, and learn the timeline of user-privacy changes in web browsers and mobile devices, how marketers and partners ...

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Katie Spurkeland

Oct 07, 2022

The Partner Lifecycle: A Single-Destination Solution to Marketers’…

Worldwide digital buyer growth is projected to increase, as eMarketer suggests, by 3.4% in 2022. Further, consumer behavior shifts paired with an unpredictable climate means that marketers are shouldering more pressure than ...

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Katie Spurkeland

Sep 30, 2022

ICYMI: Key Learnings from Partnership Day NYC 2022

Partnerize’s recent event, Partnership Day NYC, served as a meeting of the industry’s best and brightest, examining existing macro conditions and lending expert insight into the critical keys ...

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Katie Spurkeland

Sep 15, 2022

Driving Incrementality with Path to Purchase Optimization

With innovative software, marketers pull back the curtain on what was once a data black box to gain visibility into the incremental value partnership channel conversions deliver to broader business ...

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Katie Spurkeland

Feb 14, 2022

[eBook] How Brand-to-Brand Partnerships Accelerate Growth

When developing partner channel strategies, diversification of partner types is critical to expanding reach and tapping into higher lifetime value consumers. And, reaching and incenting target audiences requires marketers to ...

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Katie Spurkeland

Feb 07, 2022

[Download] The Partner Lifecycle: A Single-Destination Solution to…

As marketers strategize to maximize spend to reach the ever-growing, ever-demanding population of ecommerce shoppers, considering modern challenges (more importantly, solutions) is critical to driving profitable growth. The solution: Partnerize’...

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Katie Spurkeland

Jan 03, 2022

4 Ways Brands Can Overcome Affiliate Incrementality Hang-Ups

Consumer-controlled purchase journeys demand that brands to be omnipresent to achieve outcomes or results—a task only exasperated by cost and complexity. With year-over-year (YoY) cost increases for key players ...

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Katie Spurkeland

Dec 30, 2021

Thank You for Playing a Role in Partnerize’s 2021 Momentum

As 2021 quickly draws to a close, we’re celebrating the momentum that we built this year, together. From the enhancement of the Partnerize platform’s products to the expansion of ...

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Katie Spurkeland

Nov 08, 2021

[eBook] Everything You Need to Know About Privacy Regulations in…

As consumer favoritism of digital experiences continues to grow, marketers are shouldering the responsibility of achieving omnipresence, battling the rising cost of customer acquisition and delivering a cohesive user experience ...

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Katie Spurkeland

Nov 03, 2021

5 Simple Steps to Overcome Holiday Hurdles

There’s good news for marketers leveraging Partnerize. They can adapt to the 2021 holiday shopping season hurdles while accommodating consumers’ desire to spend by implementing these tactics into their holiday ...

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Katie Spurkeland

Oct 29, 2021

Partner How-To: Negotiating Holiday Collaborations with Your Favorite Brands

Partnerize makes finding and joining the right programs simple with integrated functionality for discovering, communicating with and receiving payment from your favorite brands. However, maximizing the benefits of partnership functionality ...

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Katie Spurkeland

Oct 04, 2021

Partners, Ensure Appropriate Organic Search Rank with an Automated Tag…

Partners that pull the anchor tag for brands’ textlinks, coupons and banners will now have rel="sponsored" automatically included in their tracking.

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Katie Spurkeland

Sep 27, 2021

Relying on Cookies? Your Tracking is at Risk.

For brands leveraging cookie-based tracking solutions, accurate partner channel tracking is threatened by ever-evolving browser updates including those found in Safari's ITP, Google Chrome and Firefox.

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Katie Spurkeland

Sep 16, 2021

Partners, Don’t Miss Out on Making Performance Marketing a New Revenue…

The partnership channel affords marketers and partners alike an opportunity to create a new revenue stream to help fuel profitable growth. For our part, we support winning marketers with an ...

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Katie Spurkeland

Sep 08, 2021

Affiliate Links & Tips for the Latest Google Search Update

Google ranks first in the United States as the most popular multi-platform web property accounting for nearly 83% of U.S. desktop search traffic—a market share of more than 61% among ...

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Katie Spurkeland

Sep 02, 2021

7 Excellent Tips To Make Influencer Partnership Programs Successful

Influencer marketing spend is expected to exceed $3B this year—a 34% increase from 2020. As influencer marketing and brand ambassador campaigns continue to gain traction and become a more integral part ...

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Katie Spurkeland

Aug 12, 2021

Automatically Reengage High-Intent Consumers with Partnerize’s Cybba…

Partnerize allows marketers to rapidly deploy custom reengagement solutions with our latest integrated technology partner, Cybba.

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Katie Spurkeland

Jul 29, 2021

Automated Conversion Optimization with Partnerize x UpSellit Integration

Partnerize enables marketers to effortlessly implement personalized cross-channel touchpoints with UpSellit, the latest addition to our integrated technology solution ecosystem. UpSellit is a remarketing and retargeting provider that designs, develops ...

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