• Insights

    Q&A: How to Deliver High-Quality Leads to Your Buyers

    There’s no doubt about it. Quality matters. This especially rings true when selling leads. In the lead distribution process, high-quality leads have a positive impact across the board — from fewer lead returns and increased revenue to strengthening buyer relationships and your credibility. Now, imagine the significant risks of selling subpar leads. This is a
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    Reveal Powerful Conversion Insights with Advertiser Sub IDs

    The best types of conversions are those that reveal the most data about the detailed actions surrounding a conversion event. Yet, collecting enough conversion information is a common issue performance marketers often come up against. This blindspot results in critical gaps in information required for identifying your affiliates’ impact on conversions and makes it difficult
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    Data Privacy and Security – Are you Prepared? A Step-by-Step Guide

      If your answer isn’t a resounding yes, it’s time to develop and implement a data privacy and security strategy guaranteed to be effective. A well-executed strategy will safeguard consumer data, avoid fines, preserve brand integrity, and ultimately give you a competitive edge. This is especially true given that 37 percent of consumers have ended
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    CAKE Best Practices for Accurate Measurement (without Cookie Tracking) 

    Editor’s Note: This post was originally published in November 2019 and was revised on September 23, 2020. Performance marketers are navigating a new world of privacy regulations that are making them rethink how to maintain accurate measurement across their campaigns. The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has created a tidal wave of changes with browsers
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  • CAKE News

    CAKE Achieves TYPE 2 SOC 2 Certification & Completes CCPA Compliance Readiness

    We’re excited to share an update with you. CAKE has achieved Type 2 Service Organization Controls (SOC 2) compliance. Additionally, we have also completed our California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) compliance-readiness strategy that’s aligned with the new regulation. CAKE’s certification and ongoing efforts demonstrate the company’s continued commitment to protect client data and individual privacy. With
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  • Insights

    What is Performance Marketing and How Has it Evolved?

    What is performance marketing? What is the goal of performance marketing? How has it evolved over the years and how can it help my organization? Today’s blog answers these questions and more.   What is performance marketing? Two decades ago, performance marketing emerged when brands were getting increasingly concerned about the amount of money they were
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  • Insights

    Google Chrome 80: Everything You Need to Know as a Performance Marketer

    Editor’s Note: This post was originally published in January 2020 and was revised on February 4, 2020, to include updated information from Google Chrome 80 release notes. For performance marketers, figuring out how to accurately measure campaign performance amidst ongoing privacy regulations remains a challenge. The wave of privacy initiatives kicked off in 2018 with
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  • Insights

    Three Ways to Leverage Technology to Grow Your Affiliate Marketing Program

    In 2009 I first entered the performance marketing world as an affiliate manager; as my book of business grew, I knew technology was going to be the key to continued success. Since then, some things have changed. I moved on to CAKE, a performance marketing software company, and now am the Head of Major Accounts.
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  • Blog

    Apple’s Intelligent Tracking Prevention 2.0 (ITP) – How Will This Impact You?

    Consumer privacy enhancements are an ongoing initiative across the web today as evidenced by the recent EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) which went into effect in May. Shortly following the GDPR, Apple announced their update to the Intelligent Tracking Prevention (ITP) functionality for Safari users. This blog post will cover the following: -Features of
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