Skimlinks for Brands & Merchants
The top 100 Merchants working with Skimlinks have seen their AOV increase by 76%
Skimlinks is the leader in commerce content: we see over $2.5million worth of Ecommerce transactions through Skimlinks’ network every day. We work with any network, any merchant, any market: 50 networks giving us access to 48,500 advertisers across display, mobile and CPA/CPC offerings and a wide range of countries. On the publisher side, we work with 54% of the Top 100 US and UK publishers – including Buzzfeed, HuffPost, Conde Nast, Hearst and Gizmodo -, and 60,000 publishers globally. Skimlinks Network Quality team manually approves every publisher on its platform and continuously monitor the quality of the traffic and the respect of its Program Policies. Only 20% of Publishers who apply are accepted into the Skimlinks network. You can learn more about Network Quality on Skimlinks here.
Data in the Skimlinks Platform shows that the Top 100 Merchants saw their total order value increase by 11.75% and their AOV increase by 76%.
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Increased Sales
Data in the Skimlinks Platform shows that the Top 100 Merchants saw their total order value increase by 11.75% and their AOV increase by 76%.
- Full Transparency
- Exclusive Rates
How to work with Skimlinks
Skimlinks has programs available to merchants to increase exposure to Publishers. We encourage merchants who are paying less than $3,000/£2,000 monthly commissions to Skimlinks Editorial Content Publishers to join the Skimlinks Preferred Partner Program.. You can find out more about the program here.
| Skimlinks Merchant | Skimlinks Paid Preferred Partner | Skimlinks Managed Merchant |
Skimlinks Managed Merchant – Preferred Partner | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Profile Page in Publisher Hub | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Offers listed in Publisher Hub | ✔
Automatically pulled from select networks* or add them here |
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Automatically pulled from select networks* or add them here |
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Automatically pulled from select networks*, send to your Merchant Manager or add them here |
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Automatically pulled from select networks*, send to your Merchant Manager or add them here |
| Publisher reporting in affiliate network interface | Available in select networks** | Available in select networks** | Available in select networks** | Available in select networks** |
| Scheduled Publisher Level Reporting via email | Upon request | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Preferred Partner Status: Badge in Publisher Hub | ✘ | ✔ | ✘ | ✔ |
| Exclusive Rates: One to one with Publisher/groups | Available in select networks | Available in select networks | ✔ | ✔ |
| Managed by the Account Specialist Team | ✔ | ✔ | ✘ | ✘ |
| Dedicated Account Manager | ✘ | ✘ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Publisher Introductions / Publisher Days | ✘ | ✘ | ✔ | ✔ |
| QBRs / Performance Reviews | ✘ | ✘ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Conditions to join | Work with an approved affiliate network. | Work with an approved affiliate network.
Pay $140/£99/€110 per month. 3 month commitment |
Work with an approved affiliate network.
Actively optimizing. >$3,000/£2,000 Editorial*** Content Publisher commissions per month, for three consecutive months. This is reviewed twice/year. |
Work with an approved affiliate network.
Actively optimizing. >$3,000/£2,000 Editorial*** Content Publisher commissions per month, for three consecutive months. This is reviewed twice/year. Minimum 50% rate increase. |
Resources available
Getting Started Guide – skimlinks.com/resource/getting-started-for-merchants
Resource Center – support.skimlinks.com
*We currently pull offers from Awin, CJ, Rakuten and ShareASale. **Reporting is currently available in Awin, CJ, Commission Factory, Impact, Involve Asia, and Partnerize. ***Skimlinks Editorial Content Publishers include Hearst, Conde Nast, Vox Media, Refinery29, etc
