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Target vs Upwork

Target or Upwork? Commission, cookie window, payout schedule and approval, compared side by side.

Upwork takes 2 of 3 compared terms. Which one earns more still depends on your audience — the table below shows where each one wins.

Term by term

Target vs Upwork compared across 15 criteria
Criterion Target Upwork Top pick
The money
Commission 8% ✔ 70%
Pays for — —
Payout type One-time One-time
Tier ladder No tiers No tiers
Terms
Cookie window 7 days —
Ease of starting 3.5 / 5 3.5 / 5
Approval Reviewed Reviewed
Our rating — —
Getting paid
Paid out Monthly (The terms default to monthly payment unless your individual insertion order specifies something else.) Monthly (Withdraw on a set day each month, or whenever the Impact balance reaches the threshold you configured.)
Minimum payout Target publishes no minimum balance; the threshold is whatever Impact sets on your account. Upwork publishes no figure; Impact pays out when your balance reaches a threshold you set in that account.
Clearing hold — —
Payment methods Direct deposit, Check ✔ Direct transfer, BACS, PayPal
Rules
Self-referral — —
Paid search Restricted Restricted
Affiliate assets ✔ Banners, Widgets, Text links, Merchandiser product datafeed, Weekly newsletters with promos and deals Logos, Ads, Banners, Text links

A ✔ marks the better term on that row. Rows where the programs match, where the terms aren't comparable, or where a program hasn't published a figure are left unmarked — a dash means unknown, not zero.

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Affiliate terms change often, and every figure here comes from each program's own published page on the date above. Confirm the current rate with the merchant before you promote it. Links to the programs are affiliate links.