Resilience in Affiliate Marketing During COVID-19: Letter From Gen3
- Clothing & Apparel +3%
- Home & Garden +29%
- Health & Beauty +58%
- Sports & Fitness +8%
- Travel –62%
- Accessories & Jewelry –26%
- Food & Drinks +107%
- Art, Photo & Music +16%
- Gifts +76%
- Electronics +58%
Using a more granular view, Gen3 performed a similar exercise with nearly 100 of our retail clients comparing week over week statistics and the data aligns with Pepperjam’s analysis above.
Given our experience of ’08, the data is not surprising. While certain industries are less immune to the current market environment, the affiliate channel has proven to be successful during times of economic uncertainty for at least three reasons.
3 Reasons Why Affiliate Marketing is Resilient
First, the affiliate channel is purely pay-for-performance and the advertiser determines in real time what they are willing to pay for a sale; you have total control over channel ROI.
Second, as consumers become more cost-conscious, many companies will become promotional and will need to rely on large affiliates that are very adept at getting promotional messages out.
Finally, as companies will need to broadcast messages out to the largest number of potential shoppers, they benefit from leveraging the expansive models that affiliates use to promote their advertisers, from on-site promotion to email, social media, paid search, shopping feeds and more.
Given our experience of ’08, the data is not surprising.
We appreciate our partnership with each of you and will continue to provide transparency as more data becomes available. We pledge to work tirelessly to continue to successfully promote your business through the affiliate channel.
Wishing you good health and much success,
Mike and Andy
If your business is among the many experiencing hardships and considering Affiliate Marketing to help rebound performance, reach out to start a conversation with us today.
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