What is the difference between an Ad Network and an Affiliate network?
Advertising Networks are companies that pay you for for each Clickthrough or Impression you send them, and act as middlemen between you and the actual advertisers. The disadvantage of this is that you usually can’t choose which banners or companies you advertise; the advantage is that you get a guaranteed sponsor for your website that will pay you for all of your traffic or all of the traffic they can sell for you at substantially higher rates than you will get from most individual advertisers. Many of these networks also use targeting to give you ads related to your website, so all in all they are often a much better deal than commission-based affiliate programs. Affiliate Program Networks are systems that allow you to sign up/access many different affiliate programs through one website. These programs vary mainly in how you link to the advertisers within them, and how many/which advertisers are within them. Affiliate programs are used by merchants to encourage people to promote their
