$15m migrated, performance intact

A global accessories brand with an affiliate programme generating $15m a year. The programme was run by an agency, so the brand had no direct control over it — and it sat on a network the brand no longer wanted to work with. Moving was the right decision. Moving badly would have been expensive.

Vertical

Accessories

Focus

Network migration

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The issue

Network migrations are one of the most delicate operations in affiliate. Every publisher has to swap links, contracts have to be re-signed, tracking has to be rebuilt — and all of it has to happen while the programme keeps trading. Done badly, a migration means weeks of lost revenue and publishers who quietly deprioritise the brand and never come back. The goal of a good migration is that, from the outside, nothing appears to change: publishers keep earning, tracking never gaps, revenue doesn’t dip.

Programme Rebuild

The issue

Programme Rebuild

Network migrations are one of the most delicate operations in affiliate. Every publisher has to swap links, contracts have to be re-signed, tracking has to be rebuilt — and all of it has to happen while the programme keeps trading. Done badly, a migration means weeks of lost revenue and publishers who quietly deprioritise the brand and never come back. The goal of a good migration is that, from the outside, nothing appears to change: publishers keep earning, tracking never gaps, revenue doesn’t dip.

$15m

Annual programme revenue

145

Publishers migrated

4 weeks

To full pre-migration run rate

The approach

  • Coordinated every party in the move: the brand, legal on both sides, the account teams at the outgoing and incoming networks, and the publishers themselves.

  • Sequenced the migration by value: top-earning publishers moved first, with links live on the new network before anything was switched off on the old one.

  • Briefed publishers early and directly, so nobody discovered the migration through a dead link or a missing commission.

  • Kept commercial terms continuous through the move, so no partner had a reason to pause promotion while the paperwork caught up.

The findings

Four weeks after cutover, the programme was trading at its normal run rate on the new network — 145 publishers moved, relationships intact, and the brand in direct control of its programme for the first time.

The findings

Four weeks after cutover, the programme was trading at its normal run rate on the new network — 145 publishers moved, relationships intact, and the brand in direct control of its programme for the first time.

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