Black Friday in
Affiliate Marketing

Early Planning and Partner Outreach

Your success starts well before the actual event. Begin your planning and communication at least 6 to 10 weeks ahead of Black Friday. This way, both you and your partners have enough time to prepare content and align strategies.

Keep the following in mind:

• Define goals: Set clear targets for revenue, conversion rate, and budget for commissions and bonuses.
• Publisher outreach: Reach out to partners as early as possible. On selecdoo, this is handled directly by selecdoo—you just need to provide the input.
• Deal upload: Submit your deals as early as possible and make sure to include a strong image. Above all, avoid the most common mistakes when creating deals—you can find a step-by-step guide here.

Exclusive Offers and Vouchers as Growth Drivers

Standard discounts are often not enough. Exclusive affiliate offers are the key to motivating partners and setting yourself apart from the competition. These offers should be more attractive than your regular shop promotions—for example, by adding an extra 5–10% discount.

Attractive voucher types for publishers:

• Exclusive discount codes: Personalized codes for selected publishers only. (You can submit them right here)
• Bundle deals: Combine products into one attractive total price.
• BOGO offers (Buy One, Get One): Exclusive “Buy 1, get 1 free” promotions.
• Early access & VIP previews: Give top publishers and their communities early access to your deals.
• Limited-time flash sales: Countdown timers create urgency and boost your conversion rate.

Influencers and Micro-Creators as Authentic Sales Channels

Influencers are becoming increasingly important affiliate partners. Especially micro-influencers with loyal niche communities can significantly boost your conversion rates through authentic product recommendations.

• Personalized discount codes: Equip creators with individual codes to transparently track their performance.
• Authentic content: Focus on genuine content and provide ready-to-use deals or posts—just like successful brands already do.

Attractive Commission and Bonus Models

To keep your affiliates motivated during peak season, competitive compensation models are essential.

• Flexible commissions: Increase your standard commission during the campaign period.
• Tiered models: Reward your top performers with higher commission rates or bonuses once specific sales targets are reached.
• Bonus competitions: Create extra incentives with contests where the best partners can win prizes or rewards.

Mobile Optimization and Data-Driven Personalization

Mobile commerce dominates the Black Friday scene: 69% of global purchases are made on mobile devices. Make sure all your landing pages, creatives, and the checkout process are fully optimized for mobile.

Step-by-Step Guide to Your Black Friday Success in Affiliate Marketing

A structured approach is the key to making your Black Friday affiliate marketing activities a success.

By focusing on exclusivity, early planning, and close collaboration with selecdoo and your partners, you can significantly boost your conversion rate and reach in Black Friday affiliate marketing.

Learning from the Best: Successful Black Friday Affiliate Marketing Strategies from Others

To unlock the full potential of Black Friday, it’s worth taking a closer look at the proven strategies of leading brands. These examples show how affiliate campaigns can be designed with creativity and precision.

As an advertiser on selecdoo, the key point for you is this: All actions described here—and especially the entire communication with partners—are fully managed and executed by selecdoo. You define the strategy, deals, and content, while selecdoo ensures flawless execution and communicates your deals to the affiliate partners.

Influencer Collaborations with Personalized Codes: Authenticity That Sells

Many brands rely on the authentic persuasive power of influencers and micro-creators. Instead of generic discounts, you can run individual campaigns with personalized codes that build trust and massively boost your conversion rates.

• Example MyProtein: The fitness brand provides personalized discount codes to fitness creators. These promote the products authentically within their communities—high trust leads to strong sales.
• Example Gymshark: With its viral video campaign “#BigDealEnergy,” Gymshark activated a wide range of influencers, generating huge reach and strong engagement within the target audience.
• Example NA-KD: The fashion brand combines influencer gifting with global promo codes. This allows precise sales tracking while reducing Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC).

Here’s how to put this into action with selecdoo:

Submit your deals and posts accordingly. Selecdoo takes care of identifying, onboarding, and providing personalized codes to influencers on your behalf. You don’t need to handle direct communication. Your only task is to respond quickly to publisher requests (managed through selecdoo support).

You don’t have a selecdoo account yet? Then now’s the perfect time to get started before Black Friday!

Exclusivity and Storytelling Instead of Pure Discount Battles

Not every brand needs to compete on price. Especially in the premium segment, exclusivity and creating desirability (FOMO – Fear of Missing Out) are often more effective than deep discounts.

Example Dior:

The luxury brand skipped traditional Black Friday discounts and instead launched an exclusive luxury advent calendar in collaboration with beauty influencers. Through powerful storytelling and artificial scarcity, Dior created hype that significantly boosted demand.

Here’s how to put this into action with selecdoo:

Develop a unique idea that goes beyond simple discounts—such as an exclusive bundle, a free product with a minimum order value, or early access to new collections. Selecdoo then communicates these special benefits directly to the right partners who specialize in high-quality content and storytelling.

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Aggressive Discount Strategies for Maximum Reach

For many e-commerce businesses, the motto remains: deep discounts, big sales. Black Friday is used to generate massive traffic and attract new customers with highly attractive offers.

Examples Shein, Wayfair & Co.:

Shein attracts shoppers with discounts of up to 90%, while Wayfair promotes savings of up to 85%. These deals are often paired with increased commissions for affiliates to secure top placements on voucher and deal platforms.

Here’s how to put this into action with selecdoo:

Plan your discount campaigns and set up competitive commission models. Selecdoo makes sure your top deals are prominently featured with the highest-reach performance partners—including all necessary creatives and tracking links.

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Conclusion: Your Success in Black Friday Affiliate Marketing

Black Friday is your biggest opportunity to boost reach, revenue, and win new customers. Once acquired, these customers enter your CRM, allowing you to continue engaging them. Even more exciting: Black Friday can attract new publishers to your brand—partners who may continue working with you long after the event.

With the right affiliate marketing strategy, you decide whether your brand gets lost in the discount battle—or stands out through smart exclusivity, strong creator collaborations, and targeted storytelling.

The best part:

You don’t have to handle the execution yourself. With selecdoo, you have a partner who translates your strategy into campaigns that publishers love, presenting your deals perfectly to both affiliates and influencers. This ensures maximum visibility with the most exciting multipliers (publishers).

If you want to lead the way as an advertiser this Black Friday, start planning now—and turn affiliate marketing into your growth driver.

Pro Tip: Guaranteed Visibility with Publishers, Creators, and Affiliates

If you want to make sure your campaign, store, or brand gets guaranteed visibility, selecdoo has prepared special add-ons for you. With these, you can secure top placements in selecdoo’s leading channels—putting you a big step ahead of many others.

Concrete Numbers on Black Friday and Affiliate Marketing

The key stats for Black Friday 2024 clearly show why affiliate marketing is such a powerful revenue driver during this period. With the right setup, you can benefit directly from these trends.

Revenue & Market Volume

• $10.8 billion was spent online in the US on Black Friday 2024 – a 10.2% increase compared to the previous year.
• Cyber Monday 2024 hit a new record with $13.3 billion in sales, making it the biggest online shopping day ever.
• From November to December 2024, total online sales reached $241.4 billion (+8.7%).
• Shopify Advertisers alone generated $4.1 billion in revenue, up 22%.
• The global affiliate market is projected to hit $17 billion in 2025, representing 16% of total worldwide e-commerce sales.

Affiliate Marketing Performance on Black Friday

• 20.3% of all Cyber Monday sales came through publisher traffic.
• Advertisers running Black Friday affiliate programs achieved an average of 23% higher conversion rates than pure paid ad campaigns.
• Publishers saw an impressive 282% increase in sales during Black Friday week compared to regular periods.
• Only 35% of commissions were earned on Black Friday itself – the remaining 65% spread across the entire Cyber Week.

Mobile Commerce & Conversion Data

• 69% of all Black Friday purchases in 2024 were made via mobile devices.
• 79% of website traffic came from smartphones.
• 55% of transactions were completed directly on mobile.
• Average e-commerce conversion rates reached 4.3%, with top publishers achieving up to 8%.

Commissions & Advertising Costs

• Recommended commission rates: 8–15% for physical products and 20–30% for digital products.
• Meanwhile, Facebook ad costs jumped 40–60% during Black Friday week – a clear advantage for affiliate marketing, where there are no upfront costs.
• At peak times, consumers spent $15.7 million per minute on Cyber Monday.

Top-Growth Categories

• Toys: +680%
• Jewelry: +478%
• Home Appliances: +464%
• Electronics: +452%
• Fashion: +392%

Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL)

• $991 million in sales were made through BNPL models on Cyber Monday 2024.
• 75% of these purchases were made via mobile.
• BNPL can boost conversion rates by up to 30%.

International & Outlook

• In the UK, Black Friday weekend online sales reached $4.6 billion (+5.2%).
• 17.7% of all Black Friday sales were made on Amazon.
• Forecasts show that affiliate marketing will play an even bigger role in global e-commerce – driven by exclusive deals, influencer campaigns, and mobile optimization.

WKZ as a Black Friday revenue booster

On Black Friday, the top spots on coupon and deal portals are fiercely competitive. With a targeted Werbekostenzuschuss (WKZ)—a co-op marketing budget of €500 to €2,000 paid to publishers—you lock in those premium slots and reach ready-to-buy customers right at peak demand.

A WKZ pushes your deals to the very top—driving more clicks, more traffic, and noticeably more revenue. Be sure to factor in the Plattform fee as part of your total cost structure.

The game-changer:

With selecdoo, everything is handled centrally and transparently via the Plattform. You don’t have to chase placements or manage payouts—selecdoo actively helps you secure the best positions for your Black Friday deals. That way, your offers don’t drown in the noise—they stand out with maximum visibility and measurable uplift.

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