Affiliate Marketing Blog

Key takeaways Best overall: ESET. 20%+, 45-day cookie, and it pays on renewals. In a subscription category, that compounds. Best for high AOV: Bitdefender. 20% consumer, 50% business, custom deals higher. The business licenses are where the money is. Best flat payout: TotalAV. Around $70 per sale, fixed. Biggest first tra...

Key takeaways Stop targeting the 1%. The money is in the mass affluent, roughly $100,000+ household income with $250,000+ in investable assets, plus high earners who aren't wealthy yet. Affluent buyers absolutely care about price. They just measure it against the cost of getting it wrong, not against the cheapest option on the page.

Key takeaways: Best overall: The Dessy Group. A 365-day cookie window in a niche where the average bride shops eight months before her wedding. That's not a small perk. That's the whole game. Highest earnings per sale: Nearly Newlywed. 14% on designer resale gowns, plus $10 every time someone lists a dress through your link. Two revenue ev...

Key takeaways Our top picks: Shopify for broad business audiences (up to $150 per referred plan), SamCart for the strongest recurring income (30% of every subscription payment), and ThriveCart for the biggest single payout. We cut 6 programs other lists still recommend, including BigCommerce, which shut its affiliate pr...

Key Takeaways Craftsy is our best overall pick: up to 30% commission plus a $20 bounty on annual memberships, on classes that every kind of crafter buys. Cricut's $150 to $430 machines deliver the biggest single-sale commissions (4 to 12% by product category), while Craftybase pays recurring commissions for a full 12 months per referral. Etsy (4%, 30-day cookie) is ...