Groupon Launches Its Own Global Affiliate Marketing Platform for Partners

Press release - Mar 18, 2014:

Groupon has launched Groupon Partner Network (GPN), the first proprietary local e-commerce affiliate marketing platform designed to help online publishers better monetise their online presence through the promotion of Groupon deals.

Groupon has launched Groupon Partner Network (GPN), the first proprietary local e-commerce affiliate marketing platform designed to help online publishers better monetise their online presence through the promotion of Groupon deals.

The idea is to allow Groupon users to share deals and make money out of it - found a deal you want to share, generate an affiliate link code, promote it and track it.




For Users or Affiliate Partners:

Affiliate Partners using GPN have access to a host of resources to help them market Groupon, track their performance and gross higher commissions:
  • Real-time Reports - run 24/7 reports on daily sales volume, impressions, click-through rates from anywhere in the world with an Internet connection and export them into Excel spreadsheets
  • Link Creation Wizard - multiple tools for creating high-converting links to Groupon, including browser bookmarklets, as well as smart widgets based on category, geolocation and retargeting
  • Open APIs - instant access to thousands of deals from the Groupon marketplace, as well as orders and commissions
For Publishers:

Through an extensive suite of publishing tools including retargeting, GPN distributes the most relevant Groupon deals across partner websites and apps, helping to increase the visibility and distribution of merchants' features and drive purchases through Groupon.

Details.



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