CJ Affiliate Reviews & Product Details

A nice tool to outreach to the database of affiliates. We contacted thousands, no-one ever replied, even ones we know personally never recieved the message. Nice tools in practise, CJ takes your minimum monhtly payment and provided no value, even negative impact on revenue Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

CJ has only coupon affiliates which means you end up paying for customers you already have or would attract without any impact from CJ. These means your CAC increases. This means it costs you more money to work with CJ

In addition, the support is terrible.

After onboarding, they couldnt be any less helpful.

Avoid at all costs. It will damage your business. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The ONLY thing I like about CJ.com is the common advantage of such affiliate platforms: it centralizes performance tracking and earnings from various campaigns into one account, reducing the need to interact with multiple companies or issue numerous invoices. However, the negatives have outweighed this sole benefit. After over a decade of affiliation, the severe issues I faced have led me to transition to direct affiliations with key companies. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I have been an affiliate with CJ.com for a decade now, and over the years I have always found their service to be lacking.

However, a recent incident has brought my concerns to a breaking point: at the end of August €7500, all being confirmed commissions set to be paid out, disappeared from my account with no trace or explanation.

Despite numerous emails and requests for explanations, I have yet to receive a satisfactory response.

The support I have received has been lackluster at best. The affiliate support emails are disorganized and fail to address the core issue, leaving me in a loop of frustration. There seems to be a communication about some bank transfers, possibly three, initiated at the end of August, but none of them reached my bank account. My bank confirmed that no such transfers were received, and had there been any error in the details, the funds would have bounced back.

I have repeatedly requested to speak to a payment department supervisor, to no avail. A few days ago, I was contacted by a team handling promotional campaigns for a publisher, and I seized the opportunity to report the issue once more and requested to be connected to a payment department supervisor. Yet again, my request was met with unhelpful responses that felt mocking rather than problem-solving.

The lack of accountability and transparency from CJ.com has been appalling. Not only are my funds missing, but the inability to even discuss the issue with a responsible person is utterly disappointing. This incident has left me feeling helpless and exasperated. I share this experience as a cautionary tale to others who might consider joining CJ.com. The service, at least from my experience, has shown a lack of seriousness in addressing grave issues that affect the financial standings of their affiliates. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

CJ affiliate is one of the best affiliate finder in the as it allows to get better advertising campaigns as per the individual preference and easy to use as well instead of google. Also there is no membership fee for joining this platform. It is the best affiliate program I have ever seen. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Everything is at good place but CJ affiliate requires you to meet their minimum performance threshold otherwise the membership of the affiliate can be terminated from the platform or he/she may not receive any further campaigns. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

If you want to develop your business via affiliation, make your own affiliation program and develop it yourself by contacting directly the sites that are in your niche. Entrusting this task to Commission Junction and Advertising Purple is simply a huge waste of time and money. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

This whole sad story started with Advertising Purple contacting us with the promise of growing our online business through affiliate marketing with Commission Junction.

Advertising Purple claims to be the company with the largest number of affiliates in the U.S... something no one can verify and after this unfortunate experience is most likely false.

The cost of working with Advertising Purple + Commission Junction is very high between fixed and recurring fees. You have to pay between $5000 and $10,000 just to cover the future commissions of your future affiliates.

Here's how it really works:

Advertising Purple assigns you an account manager who only publishes your site on bogus coupon code and discount sites. The result is that even your customers who don't normally use coupon codes end up on these sites and ultimately make you lose money because without these sites, they would have bought at the price without a discount. In addition to not making you any money, you have to pay them a commission of course. All they do is bid on your brand name!

These coupon sites do not acquire new customers for you (or very few) but allow people who already know your brand to get discounts...so really NO interests at all.

Advertising Purple and Commission Junction promise you to be affiliated with quality sites (audience, traffic etc.) but in reality they are not. Their network literally stops at very poor quality sites with no interests. As for the account manager, let's call it "trainee" with 6 months experience, the word is more appropriate.

We have decided to close our account with both Advertising Purple and Commission Junction. We have been waiting for the return of our deposit at Commission Junction for almost a year now, which is about $6500! Commission Junction is literally stealing from its clients by confiscating the deposit that was given to them at the beginning of the contract. What a shame!

We have contacted our law firm to try to get this money back and our case is ongoing...

If you want to develop your business via affiliation, make your own affiliation program and develop it yourself by contacting directly the sites that are in your niche. Entrusting this task to Commission Junction and Advertising Purple is simply a huge waste of time and money. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The software deployment team I worked with initially to launch our program was very kind and helpful. The interface is simple enough. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Kind of costly on a month to month basis without seeing much value back yet. I've already encountered a handful of fraudulent publishers on the platform so I don't think they vet publishers (and perhaps advertisers) well enough. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Impressed with CJ Affiliate's vast network of advertisers, flexible commission structures, and reliable payments. User-friendly platform with helpful support and resources for improving affiliate marketing skills. Highly recommended for anyone starting or expanding their affiliate network. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Positive experience with CJ Affiliate, but dislike high minimum payout threshold, the slow approval process for affiliate programs, and limited reporting and analytics tools. Still a valuable platform with a vast network of advertisers and flexible commission structures. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

CJ Affiliate Network has many campaigns for different regions, including India and USA. They have a good approval rate for campaigns. If they decline your application, they provide helpful feedback to improve your website. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Their tracking system could use improvement. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

CJ Affiliate has a vast number of affiliate programs which I like the most. And have lots of features compared to other networks, which also I like. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What I dislike are their payout methods. I must have a US bank account or use Payoneer. I can't use my bank account directly or receive payment via PayPal. And their minimum payout is also $50, which I don't like. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like that you can keep multiple affiliates in one location to help keep track and see any earnings. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

May not be CJ Affiliates issue but some companies will never get back to you. Should maybe just expire. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It has a ton of opportunies to promote products due to the size of the the network. You can find just about anything to promote. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It can be a little hard to join up and some of the the way they organize the affiliates can sometimes feel like it could be done better. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.