Today, Cashback and Promo Codes type publishers play a leading role in online purchasing journeys, often representing more than 60% of the total volume of conversions recorded by an affiliate program.
These marketing touchpoints generally occur during the session, just before the cart is validated, and therefore often come before the conversion event but after the marketing touchpoint that initiated the visit.
This late intervention in the purchasing process raises a crucial question about the real effectiveness of the different marketing channels: to what extent do the conversions attributed to these Cashback and Promo Code publishers reflect real added value or do they rather result from a cannibalization of the efforts of other marketing channels?
In other words, are these touchpoints actually helping to generate new sales, or are they simply capturing credit for conversions that would have happened anyway, thanks to other initiating traffic sources?