Do affiliate feeds carry VHS and DVD?

DVD, yes; VHS, no. A US affiliate product-feed pull made on 1 September 2026 returned 1,263 deduplicated physical-media listings, of which one specialist retailer holds 62 percent. Not one row in the pull is a newly manufactured pre-recorded VHS tape. Every VHS row from a conventional retailer is a documentary on disc, a band release, a Funko figure or printed clothing.

For a creator deciding what to cover, that asymmetry is the whole answer. DVD and Blu-ray are a linkable, stable, in-stock catalogue with real product URLs. VHS is a resale market with no new-goods programme behind it at all.

Who holds physical media in the US affiliate market

Advertiser	Listings	Share	What it is
Gruv	785	62%	DVD, Blu-ray and box sets. The only large catalogue in the category
Poshmark	284	22%	Second-hand tapes, discs and hardware, one-of-one
Wayfair North America	57	5%	Boomboxes, CD players and media-themed decor
UnbeatableSale.com	31	2%	New CD players and boomboxes
Woot!	20	2%	Discounted overstock hardware, heavily out-of-stock
FYE	12	1%	Music and film releases, including documentaries about VHS
Macy's	10	1%	Boomboxes and portable CD players
Temu	9	1%	Low-cost new CD and cassette combination decks
antonline	8	1%	Consumer electronics
Potpourri Group	8	1%	Nostalgia-catalogue hardware

What the retail VHS rows actually are

This is the finding worth taking away. Of the 311 VHS-matching rows in the pull, 36 come from conventional retailers rather than resale. Read what they are:

What the row is	Example
Documentary about VHS, on DVD or Blu-ray	VHS Massacre, VHS Nasty, VHS Resurrection, Movie Hoarders
Film reissued in retro VHS-style packaging, still a disc	Renegades, listed as Retro VHS Packaging
Album by a band whose name contains VHS	Ghostbusters VHS, Sleazoids, Dr Chrispy, Cronaca Nera
Toy or collectible shaped like a VHS tape	Stranger Things VHS Playset; Funko figures in replica sleeves
Bag, wallet or hat printed or shaped as a VHS	Loungefly A Goofy Movie figural line; VHS-print bucket hats
Printed clothing	VHS-graphic tanks and tees

Cover art for the documentary VHS Massacre about cult films and the decline of physical media — A documentary about VHS. It is a disc, and it is what a retail search for VHS actually returns.

Cover art for the documentary VHS Resurrection: Tape Fiends Reborn — The same again at $22.99. Four of these appear in one small retailer's catalogue - the format is a subject now, not a product.

What this means for a creator's monetisation

A VHS channel has no new-goods affiliate programme behind it. The only linkable inventory is second-hand, one-of-one and perishable.
A DVD or Blu-ray channel has exactly one large catalogue in this network, with stable URLs, a $15.99 median and a four percent out-of-stock rate.
Hardware is the bridge. Portable CD players, boomboxes and combination decks are new stock from 22 advertisers, and they are the products a physical-media audience actually needs to buy.
Only 22 percent of physical-media rows are peer-to-peer, against 96 percent on the Y2K fashion side. Physical media is the more monetisable of the two nostalgia lanes, by a wide margin.

Honest empty: new-sealed VHS tapes do exist in this pull, but all of them are new-old-stock on a resale marketplace - sealed 1990s Disney tapes and sealed blank Maxell cassettes. Those are old stock being resold, not current manufacture, and we have not counted them as new production.

Last verified 1 September 2026, computed from 1263 deduplicated physical-media listings across 30 US advertisers, including 311 VHS-matching rows read individually. Price figures are computed from a CJ Affiliate product-feed pull of US advertisers made on 1 September 2026. Peer-to-peer marketplace asks of $500 or more are excluded as seller placeholders, as are repdigit asks such as $999 and $9,999 wherever they appear; retailer prices are used as published. Counts are deduplicated row counts, never a feed totalCount.

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Frequently asked

Do affiliate feeds carry VHS tapes?

Not as new stock. In a US affiliate feed pulled on 1 September 2026, no row was a newly manufactured pre-recorded VHS tape; every retail VHS row was a documentary on disc, a band release, a collectible or clothing.

Do affiliate feeds carry DVD and Blu-ray?

Yes. One specialist retailer held 785 rows, 62 percent of all physical media in the pull, at a median ask of $15.99.

Can a VHS-focused creator monetise with affiliate links?

Only through second-hand marketplaces and through hardware and accessories. There is no new-goods VHS programme in this network.

What share of physical-media affiliate listings are second-hand?

22 percent, against 96 percent for Y2K fashion in the same pull.

Sources

Wikipedia, VHS — the end of VHS equipment manufacture in July 2016 and the 2026 straight-to-VHS release that marks the format's niche revival
CJ Affiliate product feeds, US advertisers, queried 1 September 2026 — every count and price on this page is a deduplicated row count from that pull, dated to it