Affiliate contests: leaderboards for a period, with prizes

A contest has affiliates compete over a period, for example a month, with prizes for the top places. Use it to push a busy season or a new offer.

Create a contest

1. Open Contests in the network menu.
2. Give it a name and choose who wins: whoever has the most approved conversions or the most approved earnings.
3. Pick the start and end. Dates are in UTC and the last day counts.
4. Write the prizes from 1st place down (up to 10) and, if you like, the rules: how and when you pay.
5. Leave All offers on or pick only the ones that count.
6. Tick Published when it's ready. Until then it's a draft and affiliates don't see it.

Prizes aren't paid automatically: at the end, check the leaderboard and pay as agreed (a bonus, a higher payout, a physical prize).

What counts

Only approved conversions and approved earnings count, by conversion date. A rejected or reversed conversion leaves the leaderboard, even after the contest ends. Only approved affiliates take part.

Ties share the place: if two affiliates have the same value, both are 2nd and the next one is 4th.

What the network sees

In the contest you see the full leaderboard, with each affiliate's name, value and the prize for their place. A manager sees the real place of the affiliates they manage, but not the other rows.

What affiliates see

Under Contests, each approved affiliate sees published contests that are running, about to start or ended in the last 60 days. They see:

• their place and their value;
• for conversions, how many more they need to move up;
• the top 10, with others shown only by a masked ID (for example AF…42), never by name.

In earnings contests, nobody sees other affiliates' earnings, only the order. While a contest runs, the affiliate dashboard also shows their place.