CJ Affiliate vs. Pepperjam Ascend (discontinued)

CJ Affiliate

CJ Affiliate

7 Reviews and Ratings

Pepperjam Ascend (discontinued)

Pepperjam Ascend (discontinued)

5 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
CJ Affiliate	Score 4.3 out of 10	N/A	CJ Affiliate, formerly known as Commission Junction, is an affiliate network and online advertising agency headquartered in Santa Barbara and owned by the Publicis Groupe, a French PR and advertising company. CJ Affiliate's technology offers affiliate personalization, cross-device customer journey campaign management, and a content monetization suite of products for publishers.	N/A
Pepperjam Ascend (discontinued)	Score 4.7 out of 10	N/A	Pepperjam Ascend was an affiliate marketing lifecycle management platform, supporting discovery, recruitment, attribution, commission, fraud prevention, and payment. Pepperjam is now part of Partnerize since the July 2020 acquisition.	N/A

Pricing

CJ Affiliate

Pepperjam Ascend (discontinued)

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Offerings

Pricing Offerings
CJ Affiliate	Pepperjam Ascend (discontinued)
Free Trial
No	No
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

Optional

No setup fee

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Community Pulse
	CJ Affiliate	Pepperjam Ascend (discontinued)
Considered Both Products	CJ Affiliate CalDon Preece Senior Digital Marketing Analyst Chose CJ Affiliate CJ definitely has the largest pool of publishers and is well built out in terms of features. However, it does appear that they have a lot of dead weight in their pool which is something that their competitors claim they have solved. We ultimately selected CJ because we had … Incentivized Helpful? AM Angela Matteson operations executive Chose CJ Affiliate They are pretty similar honestly we only use different options because there are different companies promoted on each one. the search feature in CJ affiliate is not as easy as Awin. Incentivized Helpful? Preeti Gautam Content Manager & Digital Marketer Chose CJ Affiliate It's a user friendly platform where anyone can earn money very easily. Incentivized Helpful?	Pepperjam Ascend (discontinued) Verified User Anonymous Chose Pepperjam Ascend (discontinued) Pepperjam Ascend's user interface is way behind these other platforms. It's not intuitive nor is it easy to create custom reports and engage with your publishers. We have been stuck with Pepperjam and many other affiliate networks have a very similar layout without much upside. Incentivized Helpful?

User Ratings
	CJ Affiliate	Pepperjam Ascend (discontinued)
Likelihood to Recommend	7.3 (0 ratings)	1.0 (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	CJ Affiliate	Pepperjam Ascend (discontinued)
Likelihood to Recommend	it is a great option for any company that is trying to keep track of multiple accounts that they are maintaining. It probably would not be the best option for smaller newer companies that do not have that many links that they need to keep track of. searching for new companies could be easier. Incentivized AM Angela Matteson operations executive Read full review	There is no place where Pepperjam Ascend is well suited. The company needs to throw itself away and start over with all new everything! Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Pros	Great pool of publishers Pays publishers reliably Server side tracking Incentivized CalDon Preece Senior Digital Marketing Analyst Read full review	Lots of coupon sites. Enables different tiers of commissions. Can blast out newsletters to your network. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Cons	promoting new options that are similar to what we have would be helpful Incentivized AM Angela Matteson operations executive Read full review	The dashboard/platform is the furthest thing from user-friendly. It looks like a high school student with zero experience designed it in excel and hoped for the best with the results. Reports are hit and miss. They may load, they may not! It's ridiculous, in my opinion. No mobile options whatsoever, everything has to be desktop. It's 2022, they need to catch up! Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Alternatives Considered	CJ definitely has the largest pool of publishers and is well built out in terms of features. However, it does appear that they have a lot of dead weight in their pool which is something that their competitors claim they have solved. We ultimately selected CJ because we had previous experience with the platform and wanted to tap into their affiliate pool. Incentivized CalDon Preece Senior Digital Marketing Analyst Read full review	Pepperjam Ascend's user interface is way behind these other platforms. It's not intuitive nor is it easy to create custom reports and engage with your publishers. We have been stuck with Pepperjam and many other affiliate networks have a very similar layout without much upside. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Return on Investment	Drive more traffic to our Website. It helps to earn money from products and services. Incentivized Preeti Gautam Content Manager & Digital Marketer Read full review	Very low ROI. Less than 1% of total revenue. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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