Affiliate Partnerships Overview
10/03/2025
Summary
What is the purpose and key functionality of the Affiliate Partnerships Overview for TikTok Shop sellers?
- It helps sellers track and analyze performance of collaborations with Affiliate Partners by showing metrics on agencies, products, campaigns, and content, enabling sellers to identify top-performing videos, products, and agencies to optimize partnerships and sales strategies.
How can sellers access and navigate the Affiliate Partnerships Overview to evaluate their performance?
- Sellers access it via Affiliate Center > Work with Partners > Affiliate Partnerships Overview, using two main tabs: Key Metrics (split by Sales & Agency, Product & Campaign, Content & Creators) and Performance by Agency to review detailed data and rankings of top 20 videos, products, and campaigns.
What insights can sellers gain from the Top 20 Videos, Products, and Campaigns sections, and how can these insights improve their TikTok Shop strategy?
- Sellers can identify highest GMV-generating videos, products, and campaigns, watch top videos for content ideas, monitor trending products to manage stock, and recognize strong-performing TAP agencies to strengthen partnerships and offer exclusive deals for better results.
What detailed performance metrics are available for sellers to analyze, and how can exporting data support deeper offline analysis?
- Metrics include GMV, orders, commissions, number of products/campaigns, video views, and creator engagement. Sellers can export Excel files for comprehensive offline review of all collaborated videos, products, campaigns, and agency performances beyond the top 20 lists.
What common issues might sellers face when viewing Affiliate Partnerships data, and how can they resolve these issues?
- If no data appears, it may be due to no prior collaborations or no campaigns in the selected period. Sellers should start new campaigns with Affiliate Partner agencies or adjust the date range. Data updates daily and real-time data is not available.
Introduction: What is Affiliate Partnerships Overview?
Affiliate Partnerships are designed to help sellers track and monitor their performance when collaborating with Affiliate Partners, where the seller can evaluate how Partner campaigns are contributing towards overall shop performance, easily identify top-performing videos, products, and campaigns, and delve into detailed agency-level performances.What are the benefits?
🎯 Key Metrics: Review aggregated data across various levels: agency, product, and content.📊 Rankings: Discover the rankings of top products and video campaigns based on Gross Merchandise Value (GMV), observe GMV fluctuations, and evaluate performance across different Partners.
🔍 Performance by Agency: Gain insights into the detailed performance data of the Affiliate Partners you work with, helping you make informed decisions about your partnerships.

Steps
How to Access Affiliate Partnerships Overview
Navigate to: Affiliate Center > Work with Partners > Affiliate Partnerships Overview, There are 2 main tabs on this page:- Key metrics:
- View various performance metrics split by Sales & Agency, Product & Campaign or Content & Creators.
- Identify Top 20 Videos, Top 20 Products and Top 20 Campaigns
- Performance by agency:
- Evaluate performance by individual agency-level to deep dive into which TAP agencies are driving high or low Affiliate GMV, and more


Evaluate Overall Agencies Performance
Firstly, sellers can toggle between 3 tabs to view the overall performances based on metric category type:- Revenue & Agencies: View metrics related to monetary aspects such as GMV, commission, orders, and more
- Products & Campaigns: View metrics related to product or campaign aspects such as number of products with sales, number of collaborated campaigns, and more
- Content & Creators: View metrics related to content aspects, such as video views, number of LIVEs, number of creators with sales, and more


Identify Top 20 Videos, Products & Campaigns
Top 20 Videos
After analysing your overall performance, scroll down to have a glance at your Top 20 videos which are ranked by highest to lowest GMV by default. At a glance, you will be able to see 5 videos. To view more, simply click on the ">" icon to scroll to the next page of videos!
Within each video frame, you will be able to identify:
- Agency profile photo & Agency name: See which agency this video was tied to
- Play video button: Click on the play button to watch a replay of this video.
- 💡 Tips:Watching these top videos gives you insights into how creators are capturing their audiences' attention via different methods (e.g. hooks, pacing, transitions). If you are a seller conducting your own LIVEs, consider adopting these best practices to make your videos more engaging!
- Video GMV: Total GMV this video generated
- Video Views: Total views this video generated
- Product Name: Name of product that was featured during this video. Click on the product name to open the product PDP page for more information.
Top 20 Products
Here, quickly identify your top performing products based on highest to lowest GMV.To view more products or campaigns, click along the scroll bar below or Export an offline Excel file for more detailed analysis.
💡 Tips: By knowing which products affiliates are pushing, you gain insights into market trends. This can help you see what’s currently in demand and which products are getting the most attention from consumers. Ensure your stock balances remain sufficient for these popular products!

Top 20 Campaigns
Here, quickly identify your top performing campaigns based on highest to lowest GMV, and identify the TAP agency behind these successful campaigns!💡 Tips: Keeping track of which TAP agencies continue to have strong performances can influence your strategy on which TAP agency to continue engaging with. Build stronger partnerships with these agencies by offering exclusive deals for their affiliate creators.





Analyse Individual Agency Performance
The Performance by agency tab gives you a breakdown list of all TAP agencies you have collaborated with and the individual performance of each agency. By default, the list here is ranked from highest to lowest Est. Commission.



FAQs
- I am unable to view any data on the Partnerships Overview page. Why is that?
a) You do not have any collaboration campaigns with any Affiliate Partner agencies before, or
b) During the period selected, there were no campaigns in collaboration with any Affiliate Partner agencies.
You can Simply start a new campaign with an Affiliate Partner agency, or select a different period to view data.
- How far back can I check data based on collaborations with Partner agencies?
- Can I view data in real time for ongoing campaign collaborations with Partner agencies?
Appendix
Learn more about the full list of performance metrics available in each tab here:Tab | Metric | Metric Definition |
Revenue & Agencies | GMV | The amount paid for orders, including returns and refunds. |
Paid Orders | The number of product SKU orders generated by an affiliate partner link. | |
Settled Orders | The number of paid SKU orders from affiliate partner collaboration excluding returns and refunds. | |
Est. Commission base | The number calculated based on the sales amount of paid orders including returns and refunds. | |
Actual commission base | The number calculated based on the settled sales amount of paid orders excluding returns and refunds. | |
Est. total commission | Product sale price multiplied by the number of sold products from created orders multiplied by the total commission rate. | |
Actual total commssion | Product sale price multiplied by the number of sold products (excluding returns and refunds) multiplied by the total commission rate. Total commission from settled orders (paid + pending paid) will be counted. | |
Collaborated agency number | The number of agencies that have ongoing campaigns with sellers. When selecting a date period, the last day's data will be displayed. | |
Cumulative agency number | The number of agencies that have ever collaborated with sellers on campaigns. When selecting a date period, the last day's data will be displayed. | |
Products & Campaigns | Products in campaign | The number of products that have been nominated and approved in ongoing campaigns whether or not the agency has generated product links for them to share with creators. When selecting a date period, the last day's data will be displayed. |
Product with sales | The number of products that have generated sales. | |
14 day content post rate | Among samples received by creators in the last 14 days, the percentage of samples with LIVE or video content posted by creators. | |
Product GPM | The average revenue generated from 1,000 product views. | |
Collaborated campaigns | The number of ongoing campaigns in collaboration with agencies. If n agencies are nominated in one seller campaign, it will be counted as n. When selecting a date period, the last day's data will be displayed. | |
Cumulative campaigns | The number of campaigns that have ever been in collaboration with agencies. If n agencies are nominated in one seller campaign, it will be counted as n. When selecting a date period, the last day's data will be displayed. | |
Content & Creators | Videos | The number of videos posted during the selected time period. |
LIVE videos | The number of LIVE videos posted during the selected time period. | |
Video VV | The number of views a video received during the selected time period. | |
Product video GPM | The average revenue generated from 1,000 product views from videos. | |
Creators with added showcase products | The number of creators who have added your campaign's products to their showcase. | |
Creators with samples | The number of creators who have received your product samples. | |
Creators with posted content | The number of creators who have posted LIVE or video content for your products in collaboration. | |
Creators with sales | The number of creators who have generated sales for your campaign. |
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