Rakuten Advertising

Rakuten Advertising

Performance-driven affiliate & partner marketing platform

Overview

Rakuten Advertising builds performance-driven marketing solutions for brands by connecting them with highly engaged audiences through a global affiliate and partner network. Its products work by using a combination of a large, owned-and-operated media footprint and a broad network of partners, powered by AI-backed technology, to deliver targeted ad experiences that reach the right people at the right time and drive actions from awareness to loyalty. The company differentiates itself with the largest partner network in affiliate marketing, an extensive data heritage, and a full-service team that blends strategy, creative, and optimization to craft campaigns that perform. The goal is to help brands achieve their objectives—boost engagement, increase sales, build loyalty, and create long-term value—by delivering measurable results and value across markets worldwide.

About Rakuten Advertising

Simplify's Rating
Why Rakuten Advertising is rated
B-
Rated B on Competitive Edge
Rated B on Growth Potential
Rated C on Differentiation

Industries

Data & Analytics

Enterprise Software

Company Size

501-1,000

Company Stage

N/A

Total Funding

N/A

Headquarters

New York City, New York

Founded

2013

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • Mirai expansions enable full affiliate lifecycle management conversationally by late 2026.
  • Agentic AI positions Rakuten ahead in $15B affiliate market transformations.
  • Similarweb data empowers brands to optimize AI-driven discovery strategies immediately.

What critics are saying

  • Mirai's code generation triggers FTC enforcement for biased commissions within 12 months.
  • Competitors like Impact and Awin commoditize Mirai features in 18 months.
  • Prompt injections expose advertiser data through Mirai vulnerabilities in 6 months.

What makes Rakuten Advertising unique

  • Mirai launches as affiliate marketing's first advanced AI optimization agent on May 6, 2026.
  • Mirai automates commission structures via natural language and real-time code generation.
  • Similarweb partnership integrates LLM visibility insights into Rakuten's analytics platform.

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Company News

Yahoo Finance
Mar 25th, 2026
Rakuten Advertising and Similarweb partner to deliver AI-driven LLM visibility insights for brands

Rakuten Advertising has partnered with Similarweb to help brands measure and optimise their visibility within large language models and AI-driven discovery channels. The collaboration integrates Similarweb's proprietary data into Rakuten Advertising's analytics platform, offering clients insights into how their content surfaces in generative AI environments. As AI reshapes consumer discovery, the partnership aims to provide brands with tools beyond traditional metrics to understand where purchasing decisions are influenced. Similarweb's data, built on real user behavioural insights, will enable Rakuten Advertising clients to develop more informed performance marketing strategies. The integration represents Rakuten Advertising's continued investment in helping clients navigate the evolving digital marketing landscape, providing transparency and competitive advantages in AI-driven brand discovery.

PR Newswire
May 6th, 2025
Bellroy, The Popular Australian Carry Brand, Releases Much-Anticipated Luggage Styles

The brand renowned for solving carry problems extends their expertise to travel, with two wheeled carry-on bags that are lightweight, hard-wearing and repairable in under 10 minutes.MELBOURNE, Australia, May 6, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Solving problems is in Bellroy's DNA. Since their origin in 2010, the global carry brand from Australia has been looking for what's broken in carry, and worked obsessively to engineer a better solution. They first became known for re-inventing leather wallets, reducing the layers of leather, introducing pull-tab storage and slimming it right down (for the sake of pockets everywhere). Since then, they've brought innovative design thinking to bags, tech accessories and more – and now to a particularly tricky category: wheeled luggage. With two carry-on styles (a hard-shell spinner and a soft-shell tipper) that aim to unite the things travelers want their luggage to be – lightweight, hard-wearing, smooth-rolling and optimized for packing

MR Digital Market
Apr 7th, 2021
Rakuten Marketing partnered with The CMO Club on Jan 1st 15'.

To find out, Rakuten Marketing teamed up with the CMO Club in 2015.

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