2 categories · RankedShareASale
ShareASale is an affiliate network from Awin that connects merchants with affiliate partners who promote their products · awin.com ↗
Read the same way at every company size.
The standing depends on who is buying. Every model is asked the same questions for each company size.
Rewardful is first at 16%.
PartnerStack is first at 56%. 0 of 14 models made it the first choice when asked directly.
PartnerStack is first at 38%.
Why models recommend it
“For most beginners, ClickBank (for digital products) or Awin/ShareASale (for physical products) offer the best combination”MiniMax M2.5 · Comparative question · first choice
“Always prioritize established, transparent networks like Amazon Associates, ShareASale, CJ Affiliate, or Rakuten”Grok 4.20 · Negative question · alternative
“Broad catalog suited to niche content and deal publishers; it is now part of Awin’s network ecosystem.”Perplexity Sonar · Comparative question · alternative
“For Physical Products: ShareASale, CJ Affiliate, Rakuten Advertising, Impact.com.”Qwen 3.7 Flash · Negative question · alternative
What gives them pause
“The Awin ShareAsale affiliate platform has an extremely poor reputation. In June 2025, they arbitrarily suspended my publisher account and withheld over $10,000 in commissions”Muse Glimmer 30B · Negative question · warning
“ShareASale has been merged into Awin; its platform closed on October 6, 2025, so it's no longer a separate option.”GPT-6 Luna · Comparative question · warning
“avoid major affiliate networks like ShareASale, CJ, or Impact, which often charge $500–$2,000+ in setup fees”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Budget-constrained question · warning
“ShareASale is no longer operating as a separate platform; Awin says it closed on October 6, 2025, as users moved to Awin.”GPT-6 Luna · Negative question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as ShareASale, over the 50 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 45 | 5 | View → | |
| 38 | 0 | View → | |
| 30 | 3 | View → | |
| 26 | 0 | View → | |
| 22 | 2 | View → | |
| 20 | 0 | View → | |
| 19 | 3 | View → | |
| 18 | 3 | View → | |
| 16 | 2 | View → | |
| 15 | 0 | View → |
What the models named instead of ShareASale →
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on ShareASale's own site, not checked by Gane.
- Customers named
- Adidas, AliExpress, AO, Booking.com, Decathlon, Dyson, Emma, GE Appliances
- Headquarters
- Berlin, Germany
- Founded
- 2000
How this is measured
Fourteen AI models from 12 labs are asked the same buying questions six ways, for three company sizes. Standings refresh every edition.
Gane sells AI visibility software. No company can pay to change a result.
Read the method →Sources returned with these answers
Fourteen of the fourteen models returned a source list in this edition: five return the pages they cited and nine the search results they consulted. These counts come from 39 of the 50 answers that named ShareASale and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
Eighty-seven of the eighty-seven domain citations in answers naming ShareASale came from a third party's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| News or press | 2,370 | 19 | 2026-09-17 | SEO, Ecommerce | |
| Podcast or video | 526 | 0 | 2025-06-10 | ||
| Case study | 508 | 1 | 2026-09-15 | ||
| Webinar or virtual event | 421 | 0 | 2025-07-15 | ||
| Conference or event | 193 | 0 | 2026-04-20 | ||
| Report or ebook | 41 | 0 | 2023-11-28 | ||
| Glossary or explainer | 31 | 0 | 2023-09-19 | ||
| Template or tool | 24 | 0 | 2024-09-17 | ||
| Comparison | 17 | 0 | 2022-11-02 | ||
| Blog | 6 | 0 | 2026-04-07 |
Most recent
- 2026-09-17News and events news or press
- 2026-09-17News and events news or press
- 2026-09-17News and events news or press
- 2026-09-17News and events news or press
- 2026-09-17News and events news or press
- 2026-09-17News and events news or press
Events in person
- June 7, 2027 to June 9, 2027Awin ThinkTank Europe 2027NH Noordwijk, Noordwijk, Netherlands · hosts
- April 20, 2026 to April 22, 2026ThinkTank Americas 2026City Hall and Morgan MFG, Chicago, United States · hosted
As the event pages on awin.com state them, read September 28, 2026.
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page awin.com exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read September 29, 2026.