Performance / Affiliate Marketing is still in its infancy in South Africa, yet globally, it has come a long way over the past two decades (US 1994), continuing to evolve and diversify as a genuine platform for revenue growth.
With the growth of e-commerce in South Africa, more consumers are shopping online, even via their mobile devices. It’s time that advertisers and affiliates start leveraging the revenue opportunities available via affiliate campaigns.
WHY AFFILIATE MARKETING?
Affiliate marketing is a great way to build income and monetize your blog/website. In fact, any time you recommend a product or service to your followers, check to see if the advertiser has an affiliate program (usually advertised in their footer links). If so, sign up, use your affiliate link, and make a little commission if they happen to buy.
MAKE MORE MONEY WITH YOUR WEBSITE.
If you’re a blogger, a vlogger (video blogger), or have a successful website and have been thinking of strategies to monetize it, consider testing the following affiliate networks. There is no reason not to join them all (joining as a publisher is free, after all), as it will give you more options when selecting advertisers to partner with.
AdMarula – offers publishers access to an affiliate marketing network and the opportunity to increase online revenue through CPA, Revenue share, CPL, CPC, and Social Media campaigns.
- Minimum payment: 500ZAR
- Payment Cycle: 20th of each month with a two-month lead.
- Publisher Sign-up
- Advertiser Sign-up
Offerforge – Based in Johannesburg, South Africa, OfferForge offers a wide range of local and international affiliate programs with high-converting offers, a variety of payment methods, and commission-based agreements.
- Minimum payment: R50
- Payment Cycle: 30 days after the end of the month.
- Publisher Sign-up
- Advertiser Sign-up
Affiliate.co.za offers publishers big brands and big conversions, together with reliable tracking, payments, and reporting systems.
- Minimum payment: R250 (SA Affiliates)
- Payment Cycle: Within the first 10 working days of each month
- Publisher Sign-up
- Advertiser Sign-up
CJ Affiliate by Conversant – CJ was one of the first affiliate networks (1998), and is now one of the largest, and most well-known in the industry. Some feel that CJ has a technology lead over their competition and is a little more popular with publishers. A viral professional network with unmatched depth in advertiser verticals and industry categories, including more Internet Retailer Top 500 advertisers than any other network, providing countless opportunities to partner with widely recognized brands.
- Minimum payment: 450ZAR
- Payment Cycle: 20th of each month.
- Payment Method: Cheque
- Publisher Sign-up
- Advertiser Sign-up
Zanox—One of Continental Europe’s leading performance advertising networks, Zanox offers a wide range of advertiser programs in the Telco & Services, Retail & Shopping, Travel, and Financial Services sectors.
- Minimum payment: 25Euros
- Payment Cycle: 9th of each month.
- Payment Method: Direct deposit
- Publisher Sign-up
- Advertiser Sign-up
Public Ideas – One of the main actors in Europe has recently launched offices in Cape Town. Their key advertisers are Booking.com, Alibaba.com, Cybercellar, Superbalist, and Rubybox, to name but a few.
- Minimum payment: N/A
- Payment Cycle: N/A
- Payment Method: N/A
- Publisher Sign-up
- Advertiser Sign-up
Affiliatenetwork.co.za is one of the highest-paying affiliate networks in South Africa. Over the years, we have built extensive relationships with some of the most reputable financial institutions.
The threshold is R200.
- Publisher Sign-up
- Advertiser Sign-up
In addition to your current earnings, you get 5% from publishers' revenue who registered via your referral link.
- Publisher Sign-up
- Advertiser Sign-up
