closely associated with the subject potentially preventing the article from being verifiable and neutral . please help improve it by replacing them with more appropriate citations to reliable independent third party sources . june 2014 learn how and when to remove this template message shareasale type private industry affiliate marketing founded chicago illinois 2000 headquarters chicago illinois key people brian littleton president website shareasale.com shareasale is an affiliate marketing network based in the river north neighborhood in chicago il usa . shareasale services two customer sets in affiliate marketing the affiliate and the merchant . affiliates use shareasale to find products to promote and earn commission for referrals on those products . affiliates use their own website blogs ppc campaigns seo campaigns rss and email as well as a number of other means . merchants use shareasale to implement track and manage their affiliate program . contents 1 company history 2 combating adware 3 ownership 4 see also 5 references 6 external links company history edit shareasale was founded in 2000 by brian littleton and to date has over 3900 merchant programs hosted on its network platform . shareasale is primarily targeting small and mid size merchants . shareasale is among the largest u.s. affiliate networks in terms of number of advertisers who are using an affiliate network to manage their affiliate program . 1 2 shareasale has over 700 000 affiliates and more than 86 % of affiliates say they are a member of the network . 3 combating adware edit in august 2006 company founder brian littleton received the afp fair practice award 4 5 and in january 2007 the affiliate summit pinnacle award for affiliate marketing advocate 6 at the affiliate summit west 2007 7 industry tradeshow and expo . ownership edit shareasale is a privately held chicago illinois ; usa corporation since april 2000 . citation needed see also edit affiliate networks affiliate marketing affiliate programs directories references edit affstat report 2007 . based on survey responses from almost 200 affiliate managers from a cross section of the industry affiliate networks shrink internet retailer issue april 2007 page 80 and online http affstat.com kellie stevens august 20 2006 shareasale was about to become the largest affiliate network company but they terminated a lot of affiliate accounts without even notifying and paying them commissions . now shareasale is a small company with few merchants.affiliatefairplay fair practice award announced affiliatefairplay blog retrieved on may 15 2007 lisa picarille august 23rd 2006 tales from the windy city revenue today blog retrieved on may 15 2007 wayne porter january 23rd 2007 pinnacle and legend award winners announced at affiliate summit wayneporter.com retrieved on may 15 2007 recorded on january 22 2007 affiliate summit pinnacle award ceremony video during the pure imagination party at the wynn hotel and resort youtube.com retrieved on may 15 2007 external links edit shareasale company website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title shareasale & oldid 743337137 categories companies based in chicagointernet advertising services and affiliate networkscompanies established in 2000affiliate marketinghidden categories articles lacking reliable references from june 2014all articles lacking reliable referencespages using infobox company with unsupported parametersall articles with unsourced statementsarticles with unsourced statements from june 2014 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 9 october 2016 at 05 01 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view