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Impact Radius
Impact, formerly known as Impact Radius, is a partnership management platform for affiliate, creator, referral, and other commercial partnerships. Brands can discover and recruit partners, define contracts and payouts, track outcomes across devices, manage communication, monitor compliance, issue payments, and analyze partner value, while publishers can find and apply to participating programs. It suits organizations running multiple partnership channels and affiliates that want a marketplace plus centralized tracking rather than managing every brand relationship through separate systems.
What it does
Impact is a partnership management platform that moves beyond the traditional affiliate network model: instead of running a shared publisher marketplace, it provides the technology layer for brands to recruit, contract, track, and pay a custom portfolio of partners — affiliate publishers, influencers, B2B technology integrations, and app-to-app referrals — all within one managed relationship. Brands own the partner data and relationships directly rather than sharing them through a network intermediary. The platform handles event-level attribution with built-in fraud screening, supports flexible commission structures including dynamic payouts based on customer lifetime value, and automates the partner payment process. A built-in marketplace lets brands discover and recruit new partners while managing existing ones in the same interface.
Where it fits
Impact replaces the traditional network middleman, giving brands full ownership of partner relationships and data while the platform handles tracking, attribution, and payment automation.
Core features
- Direct partner management replacing the intermediary affiliate network model
- Multi-touch and incrementality-based commission models beyond standard last-click attribution
- Fraud detection and traffic quality scoring applied to all tracked partner events
- Partner marketplace for recruiting affiliate publishers, influencers, and technology partners
- Automated payment processing across multiple partner types, currencies, and payout structures
- API integrations with Shopify, Salesforce, and major e-commerce and CRM platforms
Best for
- Mid-market and enterprise brands building a direct, fully managed affiliate and partnership program
- Companies needing flexible attribution models and fraud controls unavailable in traditional affiliate networks
Beginner notes
- Impact requires significantly more setup than joining an existing network like CJ or ShareASale; plan for a multi-week integration and onboarding before partners can go live.
- Incrementality testing is available but requires substantial traffic volume for statistically valid lift estimates — run it after the program stabilizes rather than at launch.
- Use the discovery marketplace to identify affiliates already promoting direct competitors and recruit them early; it is usually faster than building partner pipelines from scratch.