What is the future of affiliate marketing and how will programmes be run? In this session, Awin considers how data will be at the heart of affiliate campaigns beyond 2018.
1. 1 | Future-proofing the affiliate industry
Future-
proofing
the affiliate
industry
2. 2 | Future-proofing the affiliate industry
The global opportunity
€12bn
Estimate
d global
value of
affiliate
marketing
€149m
Netherland
s
€226m
France €1.3b
n
German
y
€1.7bn
UK
€4bn
ROW
€4.5bn
USA
3. 3 | Future-proofing the affiliate industry
Murky at best
and fraudulent at
worstMarc Pritchard, P&G, January 2017
5. 6 | Future-proofing the affiliate industry
Quantitative Qualitative
Multiple
measurement
Single
measurement
Fixed
dashboards
Flexible
dashboards
Literal
interpretation
Lateral
interpretation
Three-
dimensional
Two-
dimensional
6. 7 | Future-proofing the affiliate industry
Next generation affiliate marketing
Measure more
7. 8 | Future-proofing the affiliate industry
Incorporating CRM data
Previous
Purchase Date
Delivery Town
Loyalty / Membership
Number
New / Existing
Customers
Lifetime Value
Product Category
Determining which publishers drive
the most valuable customers
Understanding customer lifecycles
and behaviour
Benchmarking against your
competitors with more in-depth
metrics
Introduce geo specific strategies
targeted at publishers with a higher
percentage of sales abroad
Spend more efficiently with
publishers during peak periods
Product Size
Product Margin
10. 12 | Future-proofing the affiliate industry
How do we make sense of the data?
30% 0.83 £153 0.93 £12.02 1.35 74/26 0.96
50% 1.39 £174 1.06 £11.07 1.46 92/8 0.77
52% 1.44 £147 0.9 £7.88 2.1 68/32 1.04
Biggest
affiliate
Highest
AOV
affiliate
Discount
code
Programme
benchmark 36% 1 £164 1 £16.21 1 71/29 1
New
customer
%
New
customer
score
New
customer
AOV
New
customer
AOV score
New
customer
CPA
New
customer
CPA score
New
customer
gender
split
New
customer
gender
score
4.1
3.7
5.5
4
Total
score
52% 1.44 £147 0.9 £7.88 2.1 68/32 1.04
Discount
code 5.5
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Connecting post-transaction data
£767k
additional
revenue
0
5
10
15
20
25
0
50
100
150
200
250
300
350
400
2 purchases 3 purchases 4 purchases 5 purchases
Desktop Apps
£511
average
spend from
each
customer
3.3
additional
sales on
average
5.1
additional
sales on
average
through
apps.
£100k
of that
tracked back
through the
affiliate
channel,
One retailer tracked 1,500 customers initially referred through the
affiliate channel over the next 12 months…
12. 14 | Future-proofing the affiliate industry
Broadband Cashback Voucher True Content
6 Month Churn 6 Month Churn Affiliate Channel 6 Month Churn All RTMs
Delivering lifetime value through affiliates
“The channel can clearly demonstrate
customer quality, lifetime value, sales
attribution and investment opportunities.
“Bundled together, this has increased sales,
decreased churn and made the affiliate
channel a major success internally”
13. 15 | Future-proofing the affiliate industry
Tapping into current trends
Top partners
Influencer
programme95.62% 68.67%
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Conversion timeframes for single and multi-device
sales
14%
21%
66%67%
11%
22%
Within 24 hours Within a week More than a week
Cross Device Sales Single Device Sales
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The importance of global retail events
8% 12% 14%
40% 42% 42%
51% 56%
82%
93%
145%
162%
177%
194%
210%
Denmark Spain Germany Brazil Sweden France GLOBAL
AVG
UK Finland Italy Norway USA Netherlands Poland Belgium
Black Friday 2016,
YoY revenue
growth
17. 19 | Future-proofing the affiliate industry
Next generation affiliate marketing
Macro
trends
Track
more
Analyse at
point of sale
Monitor
campaign
Long term
picture
Business
intel
Next
generation
tracking
Test, learn
and optimise
18. 20 | Future-proofing the affiliate industry
The Awin Report 2017
www.awin.co
m/awinreport
Editor's Notes
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Display ad impression "viewable" if at least 50% of pixels are on-screen for at least one second
Video is viewable if at least 50% of the player is on-screen for at least two seconds.
With more data points being shared we can focus on incentivising most valuable behaviours
Advertiser objectives differ from brand to brand
By sharing data, brands are better position to drive more value from affiliate sales
Publisher X drives more sales from China
Publisher Y sells more maternity wear
Publisher Z has customers who stay loyal
What could this look like from a reporting perspective?
Let’s chat about this slide on Friday morning to see how you want to present this data. I’ll explain what I’m trying to achieve with it.
This slide is supposed to show how a campaign’s data could be contextualised with a specific scoring. I’ll talk you through it.
the rest to other paid channels and direct to site
As an indication of just how big Black Friday has become for Awin you’ll see here the growth in revenue that each of our markets saw in 2016 versus the previous year. On average that growth was around 51% for the entire network but there were markets that far exceeded that as the event took hold properly for the first time.
For some markets such as the Netherlands and France, 2016 was the year that Black Friday genuinely became a fully-fledged online event, with previous years seeing fairly negligible growth.
The US saw what might be considered to be a significant amount of growth considering it is the home of Black Friday and the event is well established there. Yet it’s worth remembering that the event was initially an in-store one and it is only in recent years that retailers there have responded to Amazon’s online successes and have started to ramp up their ecommerce efforts.
With Black Friday 2017 just around the corner it remains to be seen whether all of these markets will continue to grow or if they have already reached peak performance.
Track more: incorporate CRM data into your program
Analyse at point of sale and benchmark your individual affiliates against your own standards
Monitor campaign performance to observe variances and outliers
Consider the long term picture: monitor post-transaction data
Investigate business intel tools: speak to your network!
Consider next generation tracking: consumers are not tied to single devices
Give thought to macro trends and wider digital developments
Test, learn and optimise!