Your brand advocates are already your best marketers

Now you can activate, measure, and scale their impact. Advocate is impact.com's referral marketing solution, turning everyday word-of-mouth and brand advocacy into a measurable performance channel, and a pipeline for future affiliate and creator partners.

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Brand advocates are already one of your highest-performing partners. Most brands just aren’t activating them

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Higher conversion rate from referral traffic than standard affiliate

253%

421%

ROI when comparing reward spend to ARR pipeline value

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Customers. Fans. Community experts. Employees. Emerging creators.

Your best recommendations happen where no one is tracking them

Every day, advocates recommend your brand in texts, DMs, calls, and in-person conversations. Because this influence happens outside traditional networks, it stays unstructured, invisible, and unrewarded.

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Advocate changes that

We turn informal word-of-mouth into a trackable, scalable partner channel—and a built-in pipeline for your next generation of affiliates and creators. All within your existing partnership ecosystem.

31.5%

referral-to-conversion rate achieved by Starshipit using Advocate

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From invisible to engine: how Starshipit turned referrals into their fastest growing channel

Starshipit had no referral program. Word-of-mouth was happening, but they couldn’t see it, measure it, or build on it.

SIX MONTHS AFTER LAUNCHING ADVOCATE

239%

better CPA performance per dollar spent on rewards vs. average ad spend

421%

ROI from referral pipeline vs. reward cost

46%

of referrals came from mid-market or enterprise retailers

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20%

workload reduction for the partnerships team—an entire day a week, reclaimed

The program also became their go-to-market engine in new territories, where paid ads couldn’t build credibility fast enough. Trusted partners did it instead.

“Within our space, there’s a wide range of people who could refer Starshipit—from retailers to web agencies to couriers. We can send personalized emails from Advocate to each audience. When people sign up, they tell us their role, and their journey gets personalized. It’s about always talking their language.”

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Jennifer Caust

Digital Marketing Lead,

Starshipit

Grow the program. Not the workload

Advocate is designed as a low-barrier system that activates influence without requiring curated relationships or contracts.

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Your advocates aren’t “managed partners” – they are your brand’s most credible voices. Advocate gives them:

  • Instant, zero-friction sign-up. No lengthy applications, manual approvals or onboarding delays. They join in a click and can start sharing instantly.

  • Native, on-brand sharing experiences. Clean, beautiful referral flows that fit naturally into their everyday digital and real-world interactions.

  • Automated, transparent rewards. Highly motivating rewards tied to real performance milestones — so they get paid for the value they drive.

  • Organic recommendation tools. A lightweight way to recommend products they already use and trust without the complexity of traditional partner programs.

HOW IT WORKS

How Advocate works

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01

Connect your stack

Integrate with your CRM, e-commerce engine, and backend systems in minutes. Track any performance event and credit the behaviors that drive actual value, going far beyond simple last-click attribution.

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Build your program

Design your program your way, tailored for your audiences. Build customized incentive structures, tiered rewards, and native, on-brand sharing experiences. And make it all personalized by segment.

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Launch with strategic backing

Go live with confidence. Our team provides tactical implementation support, combined with on-demand courses and resources from day one to accelerate your growth.

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04

Optimize with precision

Monitor referral-to-revenue performance from a single analytics dashboard. Pull clean, real-time reports to back every optimization decision with hard partner data.

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The trust-based layer of your
performance stack

To build a resilient partnership strategy, you need a diverse partner portfolio. Advocate completes your performance stack by unlocking high-trust, unstructured influence at scale.

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Affiliates

Structured, contracted partners optimized for scalable, high-volume reach and conversion.

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Creators

Creative, content-led partners who turn audience engagement into measurable, full-funnel conversions.

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Brand advocates

High-trust, high-volume individuals driving conversion through personal and professional relationships.

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Everything you need to run a program that performs

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Reward any high-value event

Go beyond the transaction. Reward leads, sign-ups, or subscriptions using Cash, gift cards, account credits, discounts, or tiered bonuses.

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Tailor incentives by audience

Deliver distinct messaging, incentives, and assets to your advocates.

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Automate your entire backend

Hand off the administration burden. Referral tracking, reward fulfillment, and built-in fraud prevention are fully automated.

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Activate at the point of intent

Embed your program exactly where your advocates are most engaged.

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Measure what matters

Capture true revenue impact with tracking that shows exactly which advocates are driving incremental value.

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Your advocates are already talking about you

Give them a reason to turn recommendations into results.

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Frequently asked questions

Advocate marketing software turns the people closest to your brand into a measurable, scalable revenue channel. It's a formal system that empowers your loyal customers, employees, and fans to recommend your brand to their network and tracks those referrals with the same rigorous attribution and optimization tools you'd expect from any other performance marketing channel, which is exactly what impact.com's Advocate solution is built for.