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Written for the person choosing which programme to join and what to post. Rates and terms come from the networks’ own published figures, dated, with the awkward parts left in.
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Where can a streamer put affiliate links on Twitch, and what does Twitch make you disclose?
Twitch exempts affiliate links shared in answer to chat questions from its disclosure tool, bans gambling codes, and lets moderator bots skip the link filter.
12 min read · Read the guide →How should a podcaster put affiliate links in show notes, and what do 287 real feeds do?
We read 2,572 episodes from 287 podcast feeds: 7.1% of links were http, 1 in 10 episodes carried an affiliate link, and 18% of those said so in the notes.
11 min read · Read the guide →The affiliate gap is apparel, not audiences
Six creator niches re-tested on three seed terms each: 5,442 live US rows, 74-99% resale marketplace listings, against two control niches under 10%.
9 min read · Read the guide →What a feed product title does to your page
Raw entities, stray inch marks, pipes and phrases repeated four times: what arrives inside affiliate product titles, measured across 20,714 listings.
7 min read · Read the guide →Which product categories break your links fastest
A dated out-of-stock index across 27 categories, built from 11,220 live US affiliate listings on 10 September 2026 - plus three that cannot be measured.
12 min read · Read the guide →Can you paste an affiliate product title into your caption?
We measured 17,653 live US listing titles on 10 September 2026. 3,186 were nothing but the search word, 1,202 ran past 100 characters, and 49 shipped raw HTML.
9 min read · Read the guide →How many links in a caption is too many?
Nobody can quote you a click-through rate. What is measurable is how many of those links are broken - at eight, in a fast-moving category, near certain.
11 min read · Read the guide →Writing a product line that still makes sense when the price changes
We pulled the same listings twice, 52 minutes apart. 1.0% had changed price and 21.8% had vanished. The second number is the one to write for.
11 min read · Read the guide →Rank networks against your own links, not their catalogue
Catalogue size is the wrong score. Rank networks against the retailers you already link: a five-step procedure, and how to read your own result.
7 min read · Read the guide →What to say when someone asks if you actually use it
The three-clause answer that keeps a reader: the plain no, what you did instead, and the one thing you cannot tell them about the product itself.
11 min read · Read the guide →A small creator’s first week, in the right order
Seven days of monetisation groundwork, sequenced so nothing is filed before it should be. Five of the seven days are research, and none of it costs money.
11 min read · Read the guide →What a platform shutdown actually costs a creator
Not the page. The cost is rebuilding a link catalogue, and we measured why that is harder than it looks: 80 of 240 retailer URLs refused a script outright.
11 min read · Read the guide →Some links can never earn. Publish them anyway
Three ways a link is unmonetisable, only one of them permanent - and the case for linking the right answer regardless, with the strongest argument against it.
9 min read · Read the guide →The questions to ask before joining any affiliate program
A buyer's checklist for affiliate programs and the tools around them, including the four questions we would find awkward if you asked us them.
12 min read · Read the guide →Linking a $330 treadmill is a different job from linking a $15 jump rope
Across 5,835 live US listings pulled 8 September 2026, category medians ran from $15 to $330. What price really changes about a product link, measured.
12 min read · Read the guide →How to invoice a brand when there is no network
The nine terms to agree before you post, every field an invoice needs to get paid, and a dated escalation sequence for when the due date passes.
12 min read · Read the guide →How to export your storefront before you need to
One of four creator-tool pricing pages names data export, and it is the top tier. Here is how to get your link list out anyway, and what it must contain.
12 min read · Read the guide →How many affiliate networks does one storefront need?
Usually one, chosen against your own link list, and a second for the gap. How to find your 50, 80 and 95% points, and the slice no number of networks reaches.
9 min read · Read the guide →Describing a product you have never held
Every listing we read carried a description and one in eight was five words or fewer. What retailer data can honestly support, measured on 1,179 live listings.
10 min read · Read the guide →Can you use a retailer's product photo in your post?
Permission depends on your programme terms, but some feed images did not load and some listings shared a photograph with another listing.
11 min read · Read the guide →Who owns your links? We read four sets of terms
Quoted from live terms pages: what LTK and Linktree license from you, what deletion destroys, and the three platforms whose terms we could not read.
8 min read · Read the guide →If two creators link the same product, who gets the commission?
Amazon's terms end your session the moment a shopper clicks someone else's link. What that means, and how often two creators link the same listing.
9 min read · Read the guide →When two retailers price the same product differently
Barcode-matched across 10,151 live listings: only 6% of products exist at more than one retailer, a quarter are priced identically, and the widest gaps mislead.
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