Affiliate Marketing Consumer Attitudes 2024

Creators Are Dragging Affiliate Into New Territory

Despite its uncomplicated value proposition, affiliate marketing is in a constant state of reinvention. Our survey of 1,378 US consumers about their attitudes toward advertising and privacy identified a number of trends that could shift the balance of power in affiliate.

Key Question: How do consumers encounter and view affiliate content, and how do they feel about it?

Key Stat: Less than half of millennials (45.3%) and less than half of Gen Zers (46.6%) said they have seen affiliate content on websites.

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    Table of Contents

    1. Executive Summary
    2. A word on the high-level changes affecting affiliate marketing
    3. More than half of US consumers are aware of affiliate marketing
    4. Consumers run into affiliate marketing in many places
    5. There are significant generational differences in how affiliate ads and content are noticed
    1. Affiliate content is at parity with other ad formats in consumers’ eyes
    2. Affiliate content is about as trustworthy as most other kinds of advertising
    3. Affiliate content is about as influential as most other kinds of advertising
    4. Consumers see creators as more influential on social
    5. What it all means
    1. Methodology
    2. EMARKETER Interviews
    3. Media Gallery

    Interviewed for This Report

    Li Haslett Chen
    Howl
    Founder and CEO
    Interviewed June 14, 2024
    Renee Christensen
    Acceleration Partners
    Senior Director, Data and Analytics Strategy
    Interviewed June 25, 2024
    Karen Garcia
    Lab6 Media
    Partner and CEO
    Interviewed June 11, 2024
    Wendy L. Herzberg
    Kinesso
    Vice President, Lead Generation and Partnership Strategy
    Interviewed June 11, 2024
    Chris Lloyd
    StackCommerce
    COO
    Interviewed June 11, 2024
    Lauren Newman
    Red Ventures
    Executive Vice President, Media and Commerce
    Interviewed June 7, 2024
    Jim Nichols
    Exclamation Marketing Solutions
    Founder
    Interviewed June 4, 2024
    Kristen Pulver
    Horizon Media
    Vice President, Performance Media
    Interviewed June 4, 2024

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    Max Willens

    Contributors

    Na Li
    Director, Primary Research
    Evelyn Mitchell-Wolf
    Senior Analyst, Digital Advertising & Media
    Jennifer Pearson
    Yoram Wurmser