Affiliate marketing is an Internet-based marketing practice in which a business rewards one or more affiliates for each visitor or customer brought about by the affiliate's marketing efforts.

It is also the name of the industry where a number of different types of companies and individuals are performing this form of Internet marketing, including affiliate networks, affiliate management companies, and in-house affiliate managers, specialised 3rd party vendors, and various types of affiliates/publishers who promote the products and services of their partners.

Affiliate marketing overlaps with other Internet marketing methods to some degree, because affiliates often use regular advertising methods. Those methods include organic search engine optimization, paid search engine marketing, e-mail marketing, and in some sense display advertising. Affiliate marketing using one website to drive traffic to another is a form of online marketing, which is frequently overlooked by advertisers. While search engines, e-mail, and website syndication capture much of the attention of online retailers, affiliate marketing carries a much lower profile. Still, affiliates continue to play a significant role in e-retailers' marketing strategies.

Websparks Pty Ltd Director Adrian Rossetto has been affiliate marketing now for over 10 years, swapping the mundane daily life of an 9 to 5 employee with a constantly challenging but rewarding life of an internet affiliate.

Take a look below at a few examples of affiliate programs and affiliate networks we work with.

GENERAL AFFILIATE NETWORKS - covering most mainstream areas of interest

Australian Focused Affiliate Program Networks

Clixgalore are an affiliate marketing network that represent hundreds of merchants in the shopping and travel area in both sale and lead based programs. They are a truly global player with representation in Australia, UK, Europe, USA and Asia. Commission Monster Australia are the leading Australian based affiliate network representing many large e-tailers on sale based programmes as well as a huge number of lead based programmes, many in the credit and finance area.

UK/Europe Focused Affiliate Program Networks

NICHE NETWORKS - Online Gambling Focused Affiliate Program Networks