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ClickBank is a privately-held online marketplace for digital information products. It serves as a connection between digital content creators(also known as vendors) offering over 50,000 products, and affiliate marketers, who then promote them to consumers. The company was named the #1 affiliate network in America for 2011 by Revenue Magazine's Online Advertising Blue Book (^[1]). Headquartered in Boise, Idaho, it also has offices in Broomfield, Colorado.

Company Information: ClickBank is a subsidiary of Keynetics, and is the sister company of Kount, an online security company.It was founded in 1998 by Tim and Eileen Barber. By June 2011 the company had paid out affiliates and vendors over $1.8 billion, processed 35,000 transactions per day, and generated over $350M in annual revenue. It offered over 50,000 individual products to its affiliate marketers, and provided services in over 200 countries.^[2] Altogether the site has attracted over 1,000,000 affiliate marketers, approximately 100,000 of whom are designated as 'active' at any given time,^[3] and a sale is made every three seconds. ^[4]. According to Alexa, ClickBank is the 184th most visited website in the world, and the 101st most visited in the United States. ^[5]

Payment Processing ClickBank's relationship with security solutions firm and sister company Kount has enabled it to maintain a Level One Payment Card Industry (PCI) Certificate of Compliance. It accepts payments in 13 national currencies including the USA, Canada, Australia, Great Britain, Switzerland, Denmark, the Euro, Hong Kong, Japan, Norway, Sweden and South Africa. Vendors are able to sell single items or recurring subscription products, and are able to manage customer support themselves.

ClickBank Exchange ClickBank will host a seminar on August 19th and 20th 2011 featuring many of the top speakers and entrepreneurs in the Internet Marketing world including Gary Vaynerchuk, one of Business Week's Top 20 People Every Entrepreneur Should Follow ^[6] and one of the most followed Twitter users in the world with 883,926 followers as of June 13th, 2011 ^[7] The company is also heavily involved in the Affiliate Summit series of events in New York and Las Vegas, both as a participant and as a Diamond Level sponsor.