Shareasale


ShareASale is an affiliate marketing network based in the River North neighborhood in Chicago, IL USA. ShareASale services two customer sets in affiliate marketing: the affiliate, and the merchant.
Affiliates use ShareASale to find products to promote, and earn commission for referrals on those products. Affiliates use their own website, blogs, social media, PPC campaigns, SEO campaigns, RSS and email, as well as a number of other means.
Merchants use ShareASale to implement, track, and manage their affiliate program.

Company history

ShareASale was founded in 2000 by Brian Littleton, and to date has over 3900 merchant programs hosted on its network platform. ShareASale is primarily targeting small and mid-size merchants. ShareASale is among the largest U.S. affiliate networks in terms of number of advertisers who are using an affiliate network to manage their affiliate program.
ShareASale has over 700,000 affiliates and more than 86% of affiliates say they are a member of the network.

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In August 2006, company founder Brian Littleton received the "AFP Fair Practice Award" and in January 2007 the "Affiliate Summit Pinnacle Award" for "Affiliate Marketing Advocate" at the Affiliate Summit West 2007 industry tradeshow and expo.

Ownership

ShareASale is a privately held Chicago, Illinois; USA Corporation since April 2000.
ShareASale was acquired by Awin that is part of Axel Springer Group on June, 10th 2017 for an undisclosed amount.