I culled through this year’s Inc 5000 Advertising and Marketing list to try to pick out companies primarily focused on performance marketing and broke them down into 3 categories. Here are the top Affiliates, Affiliate OPMs, and Affiliate / CPA networks in the Inc 5000 for 2009 based on Revenue Growth from 2005 to 2008. If I missed any companies, I apologize, it’s not always easy to identify performance marketing companies by their descriptions on Inc.com and their websites.
Here is the list:
Affiliates in the 2009 Inc 5,000 List of Fastest Growing Private Companies
| Company | 2009 Ranking | Employees | 2008 Revenues |
| Adlucent | 73 | 20 | 6.5M |
| Plus1 Marketing | 226 | 9 | 3.2M |
| Lead Research Group | 391 | 25 | 2.4M |
| Relocation.com | 1469 | 29 | 9.2M |
| Clickspeed | 1491 | 17 | 5.7M |
| Memolink | 1929 | 50 | 34.9M |
| Wpromote | 2004 | 49 | 7.1M |
| LeadCreations.com | 2440 | 8 | 5.4M |
| imwave, inc | 2610 | 8 | 2M |
| JBR Media Ventures | 3634 | 18 | 19M |
| Elephant Group | 4530 | 350 | 74.3M |
Affiliate OPMs in the 2009 Inc 5,000 List of Fastest Growing Private Companies
| Company | 2009 Ranking | Employees | 2008 Revenues |
| Direct Agents | 1080 | 35 | 23.2M |
| NETexponent | 1216 | 16 | 6.1M |
Affiliate Networks in the 2009 Inc 5,000 List of Fastest Growing Private Companies
| Company | 2009 Ranking | Employees | 2008 Revenues |
| IntegraClick | 5 | 55 | 96.4M |
| One Technologies | 8 | 89 | 50.7M |
| MediaTrust | 9 | 60 | 38.3M |
| Affiliate Media | 129 | 25 | 7.7M |
| Gilispa | 137 | 15 | 30.7M |
| Go Internet Media | 146 | 35 | 7.6M |
| Smiley Media | 168 | 24 | 31.4M |
| Hyper Interactive Media | 184 | 47 | 41.3M |
| Lead Flash | 314 | 45 | 49.9M |
| Intermark Media | 320 | 40 | 56.9M |
| Hydra | 450 | 70 | 108.6M |
| The Media Crew | 488 | 14 | 3.2M |
| IronTraffic | 512 | 21 | 6.9M |
| Clearlink | 589 | 182 | 22.3M |
| MarketLeverage | 1115 | 51 | 35.3M |
| Trancos | 1120 | 50 | 18.3M |
| Spectrum Direct | 1271 | 30 | 10.3M |
| Bridgevine | 1379 | 65 | 21.5M |
| One on One Marketing | 1430 | 46 | 62.1M |
| Plasmid Media | 2897 | 6 | 2.3M |
Nice work, Adam. I thought about compiling that sort of list, but figured it was going to be as big a project as it looks like it was.
Nice list. Shows that email marketing still works among other things…
Thanks guys, I am sure I missed someone, it was a big list to go through.
Thanks Adam, we are certainly proud of our ranking in the list.
Peter,
You should be proud! It’s quite an accomplishment!
Congratulations!
Adam
Great work Adam.
I just wish the list was more apples to apples on the revenue numbers. I have a feeling many of the CPA type networks listed are reporting revenues as the gross payout by the advertiser (i.e. $100) and not the actual net revenues that the network keeps ($25), which makes the number overly inflated and hard to compare with other companies that report actual net revenues that do not include pass-through payouts.
I think as part of the inc magazine process they need to submit their tax returns to validate the revenue numbers, so these should be the Gross Revenues they reported to the IRS.
Probably true but if i report my revenue as 100% of advertiser payout and expense 75% of that amount as an expense, my gross numbers are still inflated.
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Nice job Peter, Adam, and everyone else on the list. Congrats!
Nice compilation. What Todd brought up makes sense but at those #s, that is still pretty significant.
Had to RT this list. It shows the power of the performance industry and growth in the last 3 years. Congrats Adam, Peter and all that made the list!
Brian AM Pingo.com
Hi Adam Viener,
I understand & appreciate an effort & vision to compile the list. Yet it ain’t the best deal for kinda beginners & people who are about to make their decisions without the interpretations & explanations, these are just numbers, you know?
Don’t you think they need the information to make decisions more than anything else?
Chris,
I am not sure exactly what you mean? Inc Magazine came out with a list of the top 5,000 fastest growing companies based on the following:
1. Companies that submitted their information.
2. Income Tax Verifiable Gross Income for the years in question.
All I did was spend some time to go through that list’s advertising and marketing section and pull out those that were clearly in the performance marketing arena.
How people interpret the list is up to them. As a beginner you might look at this list and say “wow, there is a lot of opportunity here to make some good money”, or you might look at it and say the space is too crowded, that is really up to you.
Adam
Nice work Adam. I noticed that some of these companies are clients of ours!
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