To achieve full-funnel marketing success, a company must balance both paid and organic media strategies. Each approach has its own strengths and supports the other: paid social media expands reach to new audiences, while organic social nurtures a loyal following for free. Without an online presence to back up paid ads, brand trust can diminish. Integrating paid ads that align with organic content creates a cohesive consumer experience. Inconsistent messaging across channels can harm the overall marketing strategy and reduce consumer favorability.

Among advertisers, there are always skeptics about affiliate marketing. One of the concerns of advertisers is a predominance of the participation of voucher publishers in the affiliate programme, so that the largest share of the performance within this channel could ultimately and significantly be reduced to these partners. Often, these partners are also seen as mere grabbers, which would not favor incremental sales.

The setup of an affiliate program can shortly not become the best practice anymore. Networks, advertisers and even publishers need to keep an eye on changes in technical realities such as upcoming cookie restrictions in browsers and privacy policies, while simultaneously staying open to new affiliate business models in order to grow their program.