ClickBank,founded in 1998,provides digital content like e-books, software, memberships and subscriptions - to consumers around the world through an expanding network of product publishers and affiliate internet marketers.The ClickBank network includes more than 100,000 active affiliates and over 12,000 publishers of 35,000 unique digital products.Back in the early days,if you wanted to sell one of your products online,you have to get your own merchant account and credit card processing.For new businesses,this was very hard to do with no credit history. Needless to say,this made it very hard for the new businessman on the internet to get anywhere.It is at this time,Clickbank came to the rescue.
ClickBank is one of the most visited,higly reliable and highest converting businesses on the internet,selling something to someone on the planet every four seconds.On an average day,ClickBank processes more than 20,000 orders from more than 200 countries around the world.
In 2007,the company exceeded sales of $1 million in a single day for the first time in its history, and that benchmark has now become a regular occurrence. ClickBank’s 2005 revenues ranked 54th in the Top 100 E-retailers,ahead of such notable companies as Saks Fifth Avenue, Disney Direct and J Crew. 2006 revenues were in excess of $200 million.Revenues have grown more than 50% from 2004 to 2006.