Today in this post, I am going to review Clickbank Alternatives.

Established in 1998, Clickbank has over 200 million customers worldwide and is one of the most reputable affiliate networks.

It allows vendors to market and sell thousands of digital and physical products in various niches.

Though Clickbank is a well-established affiliate network, it has many disadvantages compared to ShareASale, Impact, JVZoo, CJ, etc.

So the need for Clickbank alternatives.

Why look for Clickbank alternatives?

  1. It charges $1/day for the affiliates who are not driving any sales. For an inactive account, it charges $50.
  2. The promotional materials that Clickbank offers look very scammy. They just look awful.
  3. The low-end products hosted on Clickbank offer endless upsells and popups, annoying the users and making them fly away.
  4. The Clickbank affiliate program offers commission rates up to 75% and affiliates may be discouraged from promoting low commission products.
  5. There are many poor-quality products hosted on Clickbank revolving around get-rich-quick schemes.
  6. As there is a wide range of products from various niches, it will be very difficult for sellers to make their products stand out from the rest.

A list of the top 10 Clickbank alternatives was compiled after thorough research.

Top 10 Clickbank alternatives reviewed

Shareasale

Shareasale

Founded in 2000, ShareASale has become one of the big brands in the affiliate marketing industry. It has recently merged with Awin marketplace.

Till now, it has 15,200+ merchants, 211,000+ publishers, and 150 million sales generated in 2019.

Unlike Clickbank, which has low-quality products, in ShareASale, you will find high-quality merchants with really good products.

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You have the flexibility to filter the merchants. You can also sort the affiliate programs by:

  • 7 or 30-day EPC
  • Sale Commission
  • Lead Commission
  • Hit/Click Commission
  • Alphabetical
  • Start Date
  • Cookie Length
  • Power Rank (internal metric)
  • Joined Status

Compared to other affiliate marketplaces, ShareASale provides a good number of sorting parameters for affiliates to find and promote the products.

ShareASale has a payment threshold of $50. With Clickbank, the default is set to $100. You can set it between $10 and $1,000,000. $50 with ShareASale may be a hindrance for new affiliates.

The disadvantage of both Clickbank and ShareASale is that both do not support PayPal. Also, ShareASale affiliates who are not reaching the $50 threshold will be debited $25, which is again a problem for new affiliate marketers.

With Clickbank, the dormant accounts will be charged $1 per pay period after 90 days of no earnings, $5 per pay period after 180 days of no earnings, and $50 per pay period after 365 days of no earnings.

What do we like?

  • Wide range of quality merchants with good products.
  • Both digital and physical products.
  • Excellent filter and sorting options.
  • Good customer support.

What we don’t like?

  • Lacks PayPal payment.
  • High payout threshold of $50.
  • A fee of $25 for affiliates not reaching the payment threshold.
  • Affiliate approval can be difficult unless you have a proven track record.

Bottomline: If you are looking to promote the top brands in the industry, ShareASale is the best affiliate network to skyrocket your affiliate income. They have got a wide range of both physical and digital products.

Impact

Impact

Impact was founded in 2009 by the same people behind Commission Junction, LeadPoint, and Savings.com.

Around 1000+ advertisers use Impact to market their products. Most of these merchants choose revenue share, CPA, and CPL as their commission types.

AppSumo, Canva, Lorex, Lenovo, and Adidas are some of the top advertisers on the platform.

Impact has affiliates and merchants from more than 70 countries and the site is available in over 40 languages. On Impact, you will find over 500+ affiliate programs available in categories like education, travel, insurance, etc.

Here are some of the affiliate programs available on Impact.

Impact products to promote

Impact products to promote

The minimum payment threshold is $25 and you are free to set it between $25 and $5,000. But remember, this threshold depends on the payment method you choose:

For:

  • ACH – the minimum payment threshold is $25
  • Check – the minimum payment threshold is $50
  • International bank transfer – it is $100.

What do we like?

  • Supports cross-device tracking.
  • Flexible threshold options.
  • More ways are available to monetize.

What we don’t like?

  • Doesn’t support PayPal.

Bottomline: Impact has got over 500+ affiliate programs available in various niches, and has merchants from 70+ countries, making it one of the top affiliate marketplaces.

Partnerstack

Partnerstack

PartnerStack is a good affiliate platform, especially meant for SaaS products.

Unlike other Clickbank alternatives on the list, PartnerStack is only for digital products.

Previously called GrowSumo, is growing as a top affiliate marketplace with really good SaaS tools like Evernote, QuickBooks, Freshworks, Monday, Asana, InfusionSoft, etc.

Compared to other affiliate networks like Impact, Clickbank, etc, PartnerStack is very affordable and easy to use. It has a fixed price model.

Partnerstack dashboard

PartnerStack has various tools to promote in categories like:

  • Sales
  • Marketing
  • Accounting
  • Development
  • Productivity
  • Social media
  • etc.
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It has a payment threshold of $25 to get paid. PartnerStack pays its affiliates in their local currency. It supports both PayPal and Stripe.

The downside of PartnerStack is the limited number of products available to promote. To attract more affiliates to join their platform, they need to have more brands on board.

What do we like?

  • Really good interface and experience
  • Catered towards digital product sellers, especially SaaS.
  • Top industry-leading brands are available to promote, offering good commissions.
  • Payments will be made in the local currency.

What we don’t like?

  • Limited products are available to promote.
  • For affiliates, they need to manually withdraw the account. Although it’s a click of a button, you tend to forget to do it regularly.

Bottomline: If you are into SaaS affiliate marketing, PartnerStack is the best platform. As it has hosted some popular digital brands you have a chance to earn decent commissions. I’m earning decent money out of it.

Avangate

Avangate

Avangate was founded in 2006 and its affiliate network is called 2Checkout.

Similar to PartnerStack, Avangate promotes only digital products.

2Checkout has 22,000+ software advertisers signed up with them and you will find great tools like Bit Defender, Malware Bytes, SEO PowerSuite, and Filmora, FTP software to promote.

It has a Payment threshold of $100, which is a little high compared to other alternatives on this list. It provides Check, direct deposit, PayPal, and Avangate Mastercard payment gateways.

Avangate affiliates

Avangate Affiliate Network has ranked #5 for continuous 6 years in a row in mThink’s Blue Book.

Avangate affiliate commissions

It offers up to 75% commission on its products. The products are available in various categories, like audio & video, mobile apps, finance, education, and much more.

Avangate products sorting

You can sort the products by the newest arrivals and also based on the commission rates.

What do we like?

  • The interface feels pretty dated
  • You will get up to 75% commission.
  • Top-quality merchants are available in various categories.

What we don’t like?

  • High payment threshold
  • Limited for only digital products.

Bottomline: If you want to earn huge i.e. up to 75% by promoting top softwares available, Avangate is the way to go.

JVZoo

JVZoo

JVZoo started as a small startup in 2011 and now it has grown as a good affiliate network with over 800,000+ active affiliates and 5,000+ merchants.

Over the past few years, it has sold around 18 million products, which is 6085 per day on average. It has been listed on the Inc. 5000 of the fastest-growing companies in America,

Unlike Clickbank, which allows you to promote both digital and physical products, with JVZoo you can only sell digital products.

JVZoo products

JVZoo lags behind Clickbank in terms of the diversity of programs or vendors.

But JVZoo deals with internet marketing products that are found by joint ventures. Most of these products are around micro-niche and often will be low-quality with a lot of upsells. You can check out some of the top selling products here.

The commission rates vary from 30-to 70% depending on the products.

Clickbank supports Check or DirectDeposit, whereas JVZoo supports PayPal, Payoneer, check, and direct deposit. If you need instant payments, JVZoo is the way to go.

Similar to ShareASale, JVZoo has a payment threshold of $50.

JVZoo provides an extensive knowledge base for new affiliates to learn and succeed as high-earning affiliates.

What do we like?

  • Supports PayPal payment gateway.
  • Instant approvals.

What we don’t like?

  • Complicated signup process.
  • Often, the products are short-lived and of low quality.

Bottomline: With 800,000+ active affiliates and 5,000+ merchants, JVZoo is the affiliate’s favorite network to promote and get paid soon.

CJ Affiliate Network (Commission Junction)

CJ Affiliate Network

CJ Affiliate Network was founded in 1998 and later in 2003 it was acquired by ValueClick.

Recently in 2014, it was rebranded as CJ Affiliate by Conversant.

CJ has over 2,800+ merchants in various niches. You can find the products to promote by:

  • Advertiser type
  • Advertiser status
  • Serviceable area
  • Language
  • Advertiser’s Country
  • Geographic Source
  • Currency

With CJ, you can filter each program based on EPC, like

  • 7 day EPC
  • 3 month EPC
  • Network Earning

Below are some good products you will find in CJ –

CJ Affiliate Network products

One frustrating thing with CJ is that you need to apply for each of the offers you wish to promote. It is just a waste of time to apply for each, even after being accepted on the network.

Similar to Clickbank, it supports only Check or Direct Deposit. No PayPal, unlike JVZoo or ShareASale. The minimum threshold to get paid is $50.

What do we like?

  • A large number of advertisers are available on the platform.
  • Low payment threshold at $50.

What we don’t like?

  • No support for PayPal payment.
  • Need to apply for each of the products to promote.

Bottomline: CJ is rated as the top network, especially for beginners with its top advertisers and ease of use.

Rakuten Marketing

Rakuten Marketing

Rakuten was previously called Linkshare, and it was started in 1996. Later in 2005, it was acquired by Rakuten.

Rakuten Marketing product categories

With Rakuten, you will get over 1000+ products to promote in various categories. You need to apply for each program to start promoting. Most of the products on Rakuten have auto-approval, and only a few require manual approval.

Rakuten comes with a mobile tracking feature for you to track the lead conversions on the go. Using its API, you can send personalized offers to the audience in real-time thus achieving maximum conversions.

The payment approval process is very slow. You will get paid once every 60 days. It processes the payment via Direct Deposit, PayPal, or check once you reach the payment threshold of $50.

What do we like?

  • Provides API for personalizing the audience.
  • Supports mobile tracking.
  • The majority of the products have auto-approval, so you can promote them instantly.

What we don’t like?

  • Delayed payments.
  • No filtering of products based on EPC.

Bottomline: Rakuten network has big brands onboard, so you can sell more and make more money.

PeerFly

PeerFly

PeerFly was founded in 2009 and emerged as one of the top affiliate networks with a CPA pricing model. PeerFly has 250,000 registered affiliate marketers from over 16 countries.

In 2016, PeerFly was ranked as the second-best CPA network.

The platform has around 2000 merchants with 8000+ product offers. PeerFly offers multiple types of offers, like CPA (cost per action), CPL (cost per lead), and CPS (cost per sale).

Affiliates can earn up to 30% commission on their products. It provides various gateways like Checks, Bank Wire, PayPal, Bitcoin, Amazon Gift Card (for US-based clients), Payoneer, as well as ACH (for US clients). After reaching the $50 threshold, you will get paid. You can choose net 30, net 15, or even weekly payments.

As PeerFly works on a cost-per-action model, affiliates will get paid when a user clicks on your link and completes a certain action.

If you are a newbie affiliate, you can use its free training to become a successful affiliate marketer.

It also offers plenty of incentives for affiliates to earn good revenue.

What do we like?

  • Flexible affiliate marketing models are available like CPA, CPC, and CPS.
  • Provides free training for new affiliates.

What we don’t like?

  • The sign-up process isn’t easy.
  • Poor customer service.

Bottomline: As it is mainly based on the cost per action model, you can achieve increased conversions.

Amazon Associates

amazon associates

Amazon Associates is a great way to monetize Amazon affiliate sites. Amazon offers tons of products in various niches. The more products you sell, the more is the commission you get.

Amazon Associates commission rate varies from 0 to 10% depending on the product category you sell.

Amazon Associates product categories

Luxury beauty products have the highest commission rate of 10%, followed by home improvements, garden, and pet products with a commission rate of 8%.

Amazon offers another affiliate program called the “Amazon bounty program”.

If any of your customers subscribe to the Amazon service, you will receive a commission. It ranges from $3 for joining the trial to $15 for a referral to starting an Amazon business.

Amazon provides only a 24 hours cookie period, but remember if anyone adds a product to the cart, the cookie duration extends to 90 days.

Amazon always focuses on achieving higher conversions. It offers various upsells to the customers, so affiliates get high pay even though commission rates are low.

For bloggers, Amazon has released a plugin called AAWP. It is a WordPress Plugin developed to help Amazon affiliates to achieve high conversions.

With AAWP you can create highly attractive product boxes, tables, best sellers lists, etc., that convert users well.

What do we like?

  • Tons of products are available to promote.
  • Excellent ease of use.
  • 90 days extended cookie duration for those who add products to the cart.
  • Its AAWP plugin is a conversion booster of Amazon affiliates.

What we don’t like?

  • Cookie duration is very low.
  • Promotional materials provided by Amazon are very poor in look.

Bottomline: If you want to promote physical products in various niches, Amazon Associates is the best option to go with.

eBay Partner Network

eBay was previously known as Auction Web. Later in 1997, it was rebranded to eBay. Over the years, eBay has sold millions of dollars and outraged many of its competitors.

As per the statist report, eBay now has 25 million active sellers, and 175 million active buyers, and has become the top marketing platform in the eCommerce space.

eBay Partner Network

eBay has got all the products in 300+ categories. 90% of the products sold on eBay are brand new ones, it also has “used products” on the site.

eBay Partner Network product commissions

Similar to Amazon, here also the commission rates depend upon the category of the product you promote. The commission rates vary from 1 to 4%. The best price guarantee on eBay and free shipping makes customers more likely to convert.

eBay Partner Network payment modes

Similar to Amazon associates, eBay also has a 24 hours cookie duration. It processes the payments with EFT (Electronic Funds Transfer) or PayPal.

To get paid, you need to achieve a payment threshold of $10.

The best part is that for advanced affiliate markets, eBay offers various API like:

  • Shopping API
  • Finding API
  • Merchandising API
  • Trading API
  • Buy API

What do we like?

  • Low payment threshold.
  • Huge variety of products available to promote.
  • Free shipping services.

What we don’t like?

  • Commission rates are low.
  • Finding the best products to promote is a little confusing.
  • Very short cookie period.

Bottomline: eBay is best for affiliates who want to promote products in any of the niches they like.

Conclusion

This is all about the top alternatives to Clickbank.

ShareASale is one of the top affiliate networks with over 100+ quality merchants. With a wide range of products available, you can easily reach the threshold and get paid. Its customer support is fast and good.

Impact has hosted many of the top brands, like AppSumo, Lenovo, Razer, Harrys, etc. You can earn really good commissions promoting these brands.

As everything is moving digital, the number of online shoppers is drastically increasing. Amazon, one of the biggest online retail stores, is a great network to earn good commissions by becoming an Amazon affiliate.

I hope you loved this post on Clickbank alternatives.