Cyber Week Loses, But Ecommerce Still Wins
This week in FMTC’s Affiliate Roundup: we look back at Black Friday and Cyber Week. How much did consumers spend during these peak holiday shopping days compared to last year?
M&A, New Entrants and Features
Accelerate Your Partner Discovery
CJ’s demo of their Recruit Partners feature, which incorporates data from CreatorIQ.
Source: Commission Junction
Case Studies, Profiles and Awards
Partnership benchmarks 2020 vs. 2021: Revenues up but a surprising Black Friday
2020 vs. 2021 Black Friday Benchmarks from impact.
Source: impact.com
Movers and Shakers: November 2021
Meet the newest execs, board members, and administrators in performance marketing.
Source: PerformanceIN
Events, Webinars and Podcasts
Build Profitable Partnerships in New York as PI LIVE Launches New Show
PI Live announces New York show in 2022.
Source: PerformanceIN
PMA Announces Holiday Virtual Happy Hour
This quarter’s webinar will be a virtual happy hour for PMA members.
Source: PMA
Martech Record Panel shares B2B affiliate success stories & challenges.
B2B affiliate marketing, as discussed by Ty Lingley of Ally.io, Jack Phan of AirDeck and Jessica Spira of Ziff Davis.
Source: Martech Record
Managing Through Turbulence
JEBCommerce shares company challenges and solutions from the past year and a half on their podcast.
Source: Profitable Performance Marketing
FMTC News
Affiliate White Papers, eBooks & Insights
From beginners’ guides to deep dives into data privacy regulations, this collection is your information hub in all things affiliate.
Source: FMTC
Affiliate Adjacent
82% of the Top 100 online retailers offer a sale on Cyber Monday
More merchants this year continue the holiday shopping weekend with Cyber Monday.
Source: Digital Commerce 360
11 New Social Networks for 2022
New social networks launch next year. How many will join platform giants in taking a slice of social commerce?
Source: Practical Ecommerce
Two-thirds of Gen Z out of touch with traditional Black Friday marketing
Brands with “greener” images seem to win over Gen Z.
Source: Marketing Tech
Cyber Week online spending down 1.4% to $33.9 billion as U.S. consumers shopped earlier this year
Consumers may have spent less during Cyber Week but have spent more throughout the month of November, up 11.9% from last year.
Source TechCrunch
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