Affiliate Marketing in consumer finance (Link)
- - Affiliate Marketing Ad Spend has grown to 14.1% of the Big 4 Australian banks Ad Spend in 2016, up from 11.7% in Calendar Year 2015
- - Spend is largely through comparison sites, like Finder.com.au
- - Total Ad spend for the Big 4 banks grew by 5.6% in Calendar Year 2015.
AWIN's Black Friday Statistics & interactive data visualisation (Link)
Key statistics for Australia
- - 64% increase in Transactions
- - 166% increase in Revenue
- - 137% increase in Commissions
- - 36.7% of transactions from mobile
- - 1pm was the peak hour for transactions
- - 44% of transactions from Content Sites.
Commission Factory's Black Friday (Link)
- - Affiliate Network sees 73% year on year growth in sales and 60% year on year growth in retail revenue on Black Friday 2017
Rakuten's Single's Day (Link)
- - Australians embraced Singles Day on 11 November once again.
- - Week on Week increase in conversions of 15% for Singles Day Saturday compared to the previous Saturday
- - 44% of sales took place on a mobile device
- - AOV 38% higher on Single's Day compared to Black Friday
Rakuten's Cyber Weekend (Link)
- - A 68% year on year increase on conversions on Cyber Monday across the Australian network
- - Highest Click-through Rates between 7pm and midnight on Cyber Monday
- - 14% of sales via mobile over Cyber Weekend, 30% lower than Singles Day (likely due to bias toward mobile amongst Chinese-Australian consumers on Singles Day)
Must read articles on Affiliate Marketing
- - 9 Creative Instagram Affiliate Marketing Methods: (Link)
- - Future proofing the Affiliate Industry (Link)
- - Navigate Digital increases eCommerce site's affiliate revenue by 211% (Link)
- - 10 tips on how to recruit top partners on to your Affiliate Programme (Link)
By Matt Sheppard, International Account Manager, Navigate Digital Australia