MSoM #54 | Adam Furness on the resurgence of affiliate marketing, and doing content partnerships at scale

Aug 23, 2023

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A conversation with Adam Furness.

In this episode I have Adam Furness joining me. Adam is the Asia Pacific managing director for Impact.com, a platform for managing partnerships, content collaborations, and affiliate marketing. Impact is one of the few platforms solely focused on Partnership Automation Technology, by helping businesses grow through creating better media buying decisions and managing partner lifecycles.

Adam is also the co-chair of UnLtd, a social purpose organization connecting the media, marketing, and creative industries with charities and helping children and young people at risk.

In this episode, we talk about the return of the affiliate, and how privacy pressures on the digital marketing industry are bringing about a renewed interest in partnerships, affiliate marketing, and new ways to scale up content marketing efforts with influencers, bloggers, content creators, and publishers.

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đź“š Resources

Partnership Automation: Key to Partnership Success - impact.com
impact.com - the world’s leading partnership automation platform discovers, manages, protects, optimizes all partnership channels.
UnLtd: Power to help
UnLtd is a social purpose organisation connecting the media, marketing and creative industries with charities helping children and young people at risk.
New Balance and UNiDAYS step up partnerships program
Watch this video to see how New Balance and UNiDAYS found the technology to discover Student Ambassadors, track and manage links, and pay partners out reliably
How Zero Co cleaned up its partnership management | CASE STUDY
Read this case study to see how Zero Co ditched single-use plastices and manual processes, scaled up, and connected with a much larger audience
HubSpot gains 50%+ increase in affiliate revenue
Affiliate partnerships were a key component of HubSpot’s marketing strategy, but there were limitations with its previous platform: lack of reporting and payout flexibility, and difficulty recruiting partners. With impact.com’s help, HubSpot was able to: - Increase affiliate revenue and signups b…
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