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It will be a big loss for pc tech YouTube reviewers, I know it's a big chunk of their revenue. They already removed a lot of them from their affiliate program b

by usaphp 10y ago

It will be a big loss for pc tech YouTube reviewers, I know it's a big chunk of their revenue. They already removed a lot of them from their affiliate program because youtubers used to just tell viewers to bookmark their affiliate amazon link because it supports their channel. So a lot of them had to open a new affilaite account to comply with new rules and all previous videos were demonetized because of account suspensions.

_q1cj 10y ago
Immense loss for PcPartPicker as well, their entire revenue stream was built on Amazon affiliate links.
- jeron 10y ago
  don't put all your eggs in one basket I hope they have other retailers' affiliate links too, like Newegg.
  - onli 10y ago
    They do. You can see it via the codes embedded in the links.
- _delirium 10y ago
  It doesn't look to me like there's a change in the payouts for PC part referrals. In both the old and new structure, those are a flat 2.5%.
  - exolymph 10y ago
    Volume pricing is gone.
    - _delirium 10y ago
      PC parts (along with electronics and a dozen or so other categories) were already ineligible for volume pricing under the old program. Volume pricing applied only to items that did not fall into one of the flat-rate categories.
Dylan16807 10y ago
What even are the rules for how you talk about affiliate links? They seem to be pretty obtuse. Is saying to bookmark a problem? I know using the word 'supports' is a problem, as is mentioning where the money goes.
krrrh 10y ago
A lot of big podcasters get people to use their Amazon link for shopping. It set a floor for sponsor pricing, because they had little incentive to sell an ad for less than they could make by promoting the affiliate link to Amazon on their front page.