As part of our strategic partnership with ClickBank, we’re excited to introduce Affiliate Tracking on Vid Analytics—a powerful enhancement that provides affiliate-level visibility to help you make data-driven decisions and optimize performance.
This update empowers you with deeper insights into your affiliate traffic, helping you maximize performance and ROI. 🚀
🚫 Restrictions: This feature is accessible to all paid plans with Filters/Segments enabled.
How to Set Up:
To start tracking affiliate performance:
1. Ensure affiliates use the correct tracking format:
Affiliates should add the
"affiliate"URL parameter to their links leading to your video page.Example:
https://yourpage.com?affiliate=affiliateIDLearn more about URL Parameters and how to set them up HERE.
2. Traffic detection and storage:
When an affiliate sends traffic, the video player will detect the affiliate ID and store it in your video stats.
3. Filter and segment your data:
Use the Affiliate Filter on Analytics Home to filter data by a specific affiliate.
Use the Affiliate Segment in Vid Stats to break down performance metrics per affiliate.
CLICK below for a walkthrough video showing further insight regarding filtering and segmenting Affiliates on your Vid Analytics.
Benefits:
Per-Affiliate Analysis: Instantly identify top-performing affiliates driving the most valuable traffic.
Optimized Campaigns: Focus on affiliates generating higher conversions and better engagement.
Data-Driven Partnerships: Strengthen your affiliate management strategy with transparent performance insights.
Layer in URL Parameters: Segment your data and layer in additional URL Parameters to help optimize a specific Affiliate, e.g. Campaign ID, Ad ID or Platform ID.
Better Results: Having access to all this information segmented by each Affiliate will allow you to help your Affiliate drive in better results for them and for your campaigns.
Recruit Affiliates: Having specific data reports to show real numbers and success stories will help you recruit more affiliates specially for new campaigns.
Notes:
a) Affiliate Link Format: Proper tracking relies on correctly tagged affiliate links, including the "affiliate" URL parameter with the correct affiliate ID.
b) Currently, shielded (encrypted) affiliate IDs are supported via the "shield" value.
c) Decryption support for encrypted affiliate IDs is coming soon.
💡 Tip: ClickBank-Specific Parameters: ClickBank affiliate IDs can be detected via "hop", "shield", or "affiliate" parameters.
ClickBank
ClickBank.com is an online marketplace that connects product creators with affiliate marketers to sell digital and physical products. It provides a platform for vendors to list their products, while affiliates can promote them and earn commissions on sales. ClickBank handles payment processing, tracking, and payouts, making it easy for both parties to focus on sales.
The platform is popular for digital products like e-books, courses, and software, catering to entrepreneurs and online marketers.
With our ClickBank initiative and this great partnership we have, we support their affiliate tracking approach out of the box. Including both the HopLinks and Direct Tracking.
With the only exception of when the affiliate is encrypted (utilizing the shield parameter). This we will add soon too.
For additional questions, feedback or assistance please feel free to reach out directly to support at [email protected]. 😊