Merchants favor affiliate marketing because in most cases it uses a "pay  for performance" model, meaning that the merchant does not incur a  marketing expense unless results are accrued (excluding any initial  setup cost).Some businesses owe much of their success to this marketing technique, a notable example being Amazon.com. Unlike display advertising, however, affiliate marketing is not easily scalable.
Some merchants run their own (i.e., in-house) affiliate programs using  popular software while others use third-party services provided by  intermediaries to track traffic or sales that are referred from  affiliates (see outsourced program management). Merchants can choose from two different types of affiliate management solutions: standalone software or hosted services,  typically called affiliate networks. Payouts to affiliates or  publishers are either made by the networks on behalf of the merchant, by  the network, consolidated across all merchants where the publisher has a  relationship with and earned commissions or directly by the merchant  itself.
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