What is Affiliate Network?

What is Affiliate Network?
An affiliate network is acting as an intermediary between publishers and merchant affiliate programs for the purpose of getting the publishers to promote the merchant affiliate products or services.

Affiliate network is part of the performance marketing industry, where merchant affiliates pays the affiliate network when a specific-measurable result-action such as clicks, registrations, downloads or sales occur and the affiliate network pays to the affiliate back-to-back.