Does JVZoo have any real competitors?

One day at a conference, around 2010ish, a computer science professor came up to me and said he wanted to build the next Clickbank. I jokingly said, "Yea, and I want to build the next Amazon.” Well he built JVZoo.. so...

There has been many competitors pop up time to time. Most of which are already gone.

The huge Warrior forum has been around forever and implemented a marketplace to buy and sell digital products. You would think given all the traffic of the forum they would be the most significant competitor.

The newest kid on the block - PayKickstart has had some "big players" launch products on their recently.

Clickbank cleaned house from the CEO down and refocused away from the IM space. So, they are really not a relevant competitor.

But both of these companies charge you a fee to even list your product for sale. In PayKickstarts’ case it’s $99 a month.

Here is where is it gets interesting. While some of the "big players" might launch their products on these platforms they still promote products on JVZoo to make money.

And to go further even some of the founders of these companies are promoting products as an affiliate on JVZoo. It's a bit odd to say your company is #1, yet promote products to make money on JVZoo.

For instance not to long ago I got an email from one of PayKickstart’s founders Matt Callen:

From: "Matt Callen" <matt@digitalkickstart.com>

Date: June 29, 2017 at 7:18:20 PM EDT

Subject: last chance to make an quick ROI with video

Promoting https://digitalkickstart.com/viddyoze.

Which then bounces through https://jvz9.com/c/536235/262717

And it ends up on a JVZoo checkout page:

So not only does PayKickstart’s founder not only use their own affiliate system... he promotes products that don't even use their own shopping cart...

I think that speaks for itself.

I honestly don't know if anyone can catch JVZoo at this point.

Six years ago JVZoo came out swinging when they launched with some truly innovative features - the likes of which an competitor has yet to match... even six years later...

Free signups to use the platform (no trial b.s., it is truly free).
Free training program.
Instant payments to affiliates (personally I love seeing my phone blow up with paypal payments). No waiting period to get paid.
Free built in webinar hosting.
Free built in JV Broker settings.
Product owners have full control of who and how their items can be promoted by affiliates.
Free compliance review to ensure your product meets FTC standards (They cover your ass)
Daily product of the day promotions which if your's is chosen can sell thousands (if not tens of thousands) of your product. I know this first hand.

But one of my favorite features is the transparent views for affiliates. This is great for me because if someone hits me up to promote their item I can actually see how many are selling, the conversion rate, the EPC etc.

And as you can see I can even see the refund rate also. I love that feature.

Between their innovative platform, hundreds of thousands of built in affiliates to sell your product, and over 50,000 products you can promote as an affiliate to make money, I just don't see it.

If you know of any competitors on the map please leave in the comment below.