Pepperjam is a performance marketing solutions provider powering growth for marketers seeking a scaled alternative to primary sales and marketing channels. Ascend, Pepperjam’s cloud-based affiliate marketing lifecycle platform, delivers the category’s only fully integrated partner discovery, recruitment, tracking, payment and brand safety solution through core modules:

• Discover is the Ascend platform’s recruitment and activation engine that enables you to find and activate right-fit partners from our database and the broader digital ecosystem. You can easily input attributes of your target audience into Discover’s robust filter functionality to receive precise partner suggestions based on demographic, promotional method, social footprint and more. Easily recruit partners into your program with capabilities that automate the traditionally manual recruitment process and speed time to revenue activation.

• Track ensures that your data is just that – your data. Easily integrate Ascend data into analytics and attribution source of truth using one of our turnkey partner integrations to eliminate black boxes and data silos preserved by today’s legacy affiliate networks. By viewing affiliate data side-by-side with the rest of the digital mix, you can make smart spend allocation decisions, offset the cost of other primary sales and marketing channels and easily see the true impact of the affiliate channel.

• Pay enables you to assign custom value to touchpoints across the affiliate buyer journey and automate partner rewards for transaction attributes such as AOV, revenue threshold, customer type, click stream position and more. Further, spend allocation tools give you the control to reward partners for their contribution to results, eliminating reliance on last click.

• Protect is the affiliate category’s only comprehensive brand safety and fraud prevention solution providing an “always on” compliance solution for search, code, content and domain infractions. Maintain brand integrity while safeguarding ad spend using automated site audits and integrated fraud management solutions.