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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

If i could give them 0 stars, I would. I have not been paid from them for almost 2 years. They keep coming up with excuses as to why I'm not paid, often blaming the companies themselves. It's an ab... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

If there would be a less than 0 I would give that rating. I joined CJ platform 6 months ago and hardly struggling Made first $50 by joining a opera cashback affiliate program which pay $0.50 per le... See more

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

Hi CJ, I wanted to share some feedback on the program. While it offers great features and is much appreciated, there’s a need for easier access to links and a more convenient user experience over... See more

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

Dear CJ Support Team, I am vu van ha, CJ account holder with registered email nuckollsau96539@g.. Recently, I noticed that my account has been locked for unknown reasons. I also did not receiv... See more

Company details

  1. Affiliate marketing service
  2. Business-to-Business service
  3. Internet marketing service
  4. Online marketing agency

Written by the company

With over 20 years of experience, we are the most trusted and established name in affiliate marketing. Since being founded in Santa Barbara, California in 1998, we have been passionate about driving intelligent growth for our clients. Our employees in 15 offices worldwide are dedicated to delivering innovative solutions and strategies designed to drive BIG results. We dig deep and tackle the tough questions for our clients. Alongside marketing powerhouse, Epsilon, and our sister company, Conversant—our access to unparalleled data allows us to offer a truly customer-centric approach to affiliate marketing.


Contact info

  • 530 East Montecito St, 93103-3252, Santa Barbara, United States

  • www.cj.com

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TrustScore 1.5 out of 5

259 reviews

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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

I have been working with CJ for 5 years…

I have been working with CJ for 5 years and I am satisfied. I appreciate the support from affiliate managers. The great thing is that there is a huge range of programs to promote. When I compare the interface of the system, it is slower compared to the competition. But overall I am satisfied.

24 August 2023
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Rated 4 out of 5 stars

Overall good job

The CJ affiliate network is easy for publishers to use - links can easily be generated directly through the browser. CJ offers a large number of affiliate partners from all over the world. For the Central European region, it has excellent affiliate managers who will help publishers. Commission payment works automatically to your account.
The negative is the amount of forms you have to fill out to use this network. If you want to change the account number, it is a job of several months. Everything is handled through the headquarters (USA, UK) and these changes take a really long time.
Overall good job.

23 August 2023
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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

We provide all online marketing in the…

We provide all online marketing in the CEE region for our e-shop clients. Our clients care about data transparency and active affiliate program management. 3 years ago we chose the CJ | VIVnetworks affiliate network. We are very satisfied with the speed of support and active communication in several languages ​​across Eastern Europe. We recommend them as experts on the Eastern Europe region

16 August 2023
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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Flawless Affiliate Marketing

Using CJ.com through our influencer platform Contentiamo.com has been a game-changer. Over several years, CJ.com has proven itself as a reliable and efficient platform for affiliate marketing. It's a seamless experience from start to finish. Highly recommended!

11 August 2023
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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Cooperation with cj.com / VIV Networks as a publisher

I worked with cj.com / VIV Networks (CEE region) as a publisher for several years on two different projects that aggregated the data of hundreds of e-shops. My experience was very positive and I don't understand the negative reviews here at all. It is possible that these are "partners" whose commissions are blocked or reduced by CJ due to unfair practices ... (as far as I know, CJ's competitors do not do this).
The CJ interface is far better than the competition, the payment of commissions is smooth and on time, the support of the team from Prague in case of tracking failures and technical problems was very fast. When clicking, we enriched the data stored on CJ servers with specific parameters via the SID parameter and re-imported them via the CJ API into our system - this enabled us to work better with transactions and improve the profitability of our projects.
If I were an advertiser, I would definitely choose CJ / VIV Networks in the CEE region. I have personally been to several of their affiliate conferences and I appreciate their activities as well.

20 December 2022
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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Great VIVnetworks / CJ support in CEE region

I really appreciate CJ.com's support, especially their CEE part VIVnetworks. I am promoting several advertisers in CEE using CJ.com and all the time I have gotten prompt support from VIVnetworks / CJ and thanks to this also I am able to follow mainly advertisers' rules about what I can do and what is forbidden. I got all my publisher payment in time. I can highly recommend them. Also what is their advantage is the list of TOP advertisers in my region.

8 August 2023
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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

A big thanks to local support of CJ / VIVnetworks

We are super happy with CEE support from CJ / VIVnetworks. We developed several projects for CJ clients and when we communicated our thoughts with them, we met their criteria and also our profit. What I really appreciate is that they are communicating in our local languages (Czech, Polish, Hungarian and Romanian). This is a huge benefit for us. Also their local knowledge is excellent.

31 July 2023
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Unprofessional even website speed can tell the truth

I was so excited then after hard work i earnd around 100+ USD, my payment details and everything i completed perfectly earlier, its been 3 month and they didn't send me a cent, i felt soo frustrated, i skipped my other important priorities and focused on this, to be honest, i found 70% bad response from other users and from my personal experience, i tried to contact their support but either they are poor, scammers or dont care type gay community who never replied and life is short I can't wait for three month, very saad i thought affiliate marketing business industry is good but thanks to this stupid beggars who demotivated entrepreneurs like me, better focus other works then working or depend on such fraud companies.

20 June 2023
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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Don't believe the hate

Don't believe the hate! Those who are accusing this platform of being a scam, are either scammers themselves or have no idea what they're doing! They haven't been paid because they've violated terms and conditions that are explicitly set by the network and advertisers that do business there. Don't follow these rules and you won't get paid. Ignore all of the bad reviews.

This is the largest affiliate network on the planet and consistently voted the #1 global network by both publishers and advertisers.

16 May 2023
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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Can You Earn From CJ.COM?

Well that's an amazing Affiliate Network (For those who don't know) You can connect with brands and promote them to earn commissions. And I liked that platform cuz I earned my first Online Income from this particular platform.

8 June 2023
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

CJ has become a terrible company...

CJ has become a terrible company to deal with. Unprofessional, lacking proper support, and payout issues.

We've been working as Publisher with CJ since 2007. Generated over $5mil in commissions over the years without any problem what so ever.

Re-started a different campaign last year and BAM now there are payout issues. The processed our payout yet, it never reached our bank account. We followed all their instructions, they acknowledged there are internal processing issues yet there is no resolution to fix it.

The payout was in October 2022. It is now almost June 2023.

I've communicated with their support, takes them ages to respond and every time with the same bs excuse that their internal team is checking on this.

Last time they told me this was in February 2023. Over 3 months ago.

I would strongly recommend staying away from dealing with them.

31 October 2022
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

It appears that CJ is able to attract…

It appears that CJ is able to attract advertisers as big as GoDaddy and Dell by entering into a secret arrangement with the affiliate managers. So affiliate team of GoDaddy I guess should be pampered with hidden commission so that they do not mind if CJ do not transfer the pending commission that GoDaddy issued to CJ to be finally paid to small publishers like us. In my case, I sent an email to GoDaddy affiliate team but they did not respond. In other words, CJ is cheating with advertisers as well.

1 March 2023
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Commission Junction stole our deposit and never give it back (6500$)

This whole sad story started with Advertising Purple contacting us with the promise of growing our online business through affiliate marketing with Commission Junction.

Advertising Purple claims to be the company with the largest number of affiliates in the U.S... something no one can verify and after this unfortunate experience is most likely false.

The cost of working with Advertising Purple + Commission Junction is very high between fixed and recurring fees. You have to pay between $5000 and $10,000 just to cover the future commissions of your future affiliates.

Here's how it really works:

Advertising Purple assigns you an account manager who only publishes your site on bogus coupon code and discount sites. The result is that even your customers who don't normally use coupon codes end up on these sites and ultimately make you lose money because without these sites, they would have bought at the price without a discount. In addition to not making you any money, you have to pay them a commission of course. All they do is bid on your brand name!

These coupon sites do not acquire new customers for you (or very few) but allow people who already know your brand to get discounts...so really NO interests at all.

Advertising Purple and Commission Junction promise you to be affiliated with quality sites (audience, traffic etc.) but in reality they are not. Their network literally stops at very poor quality sites with no interests. As for the account manager, let's call it "trainee" with 6 months experience, the word is more appropriate.

We have decided to close our account with both Advertising Purple and Commission Junction. We have been waiting for the return of our deposit at Commission Junction for almost a year now, which is about $6500! Commission Junction is literally stealing from its clients by confiscating the deposit that was given to them at the beginning of the contract. What a shame!

We have contacted our law firm to try to get this money back and our case is ongoing...

If you want to develop your business via affiliation, make your own affiliation program and develop it yourself by contacting directly the sites that are in your niche. Entrusting this task to Commission Junction and Advertising Purple is simply a huge waste of time and money.

23 March 2023
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Scamming platform

problem with you again its really bad experience, I received email on 24 jan asking for my traffic sources and mentioned if I failed to respond within 48 hours will deactivated the account, i have responded 25 Jan and get deactivated also what wrong here??

1 February 2023
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