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NEW The 2026 Affiliate Index report is live.
#1 Site For “Affiliate Marketing News”
The newsroom 35,000+ partner-program operators read first. Industry news, deep-dives, a vetted partner directory, and a twice-weekly briefing — written by people who actually run programs.
✓ Free forever✓ Twice weekly✓ 35,400 readers in 92 countries
30M+
Monthly readers worldwide
1,200+
Articles published since 2017
35K+
Newsletter subscribers
4.9/5
From 100+ reader reviews
WHERE AFFILIATEBOOSTER SHOWS UP
Everflow·Impact·PartnerStack·ShareASale·AWIN·CJ Affiliate·Rakuten·ClickBank·Refersion·Tapfiliate·Post Affiliate Pro
● WHAT WE PUBLISH
Six obsessions, one newsroom.
Every byline belongs to a working writer who has actually run the playbook. No SEO clickbait. No AI rewrites of press releases. No filler.
01 — News Desk
The deals, payouts, and policy moves that change your forecast. Twice weekly. Sources inside the top 50 networks. The first read for program managers from Mountain View to Mumbai. Updated Mon · Thu.
02 — Directory
Networks, programs, tools. 142 entries. Filter by vertical, payout, cookie window, EPC range. Last vetted Apr 2026.
03 — Podcast
Operators on the record. 60-minute interviews with the people running the biggest programs in the world. 187 episodes.
04 — Long-form
Compounding playbooks for SEO, paid, and creator deals. One per fortnight. 4,000–7,000 words. Avg. read 22 min.
05 — Saturday Brief
What happened. What to do about it. A 7-minute weekend read. Five stories ranked. One we got wrong. 35,400 subscribers.
06 — Annual Report
The Affiliate Marketing Index. Real channel mix, attribution, and fraud data — anonymized from 1,200 programs. Next drop Q3 2026.
● NETWORKS · AUDITED
Where the money is.
● BROWSE THE BLOG
Pick your category.
Proxies
48 articles · Reviews and how-tos for residential, datacenter, and mobile proxy stacks.
Comparison
62 articles · Side-by-side breakdowns of the tools most affiliate marketers actually pay for.
SEO
94 articles · Keyword research, on-page, link building — playbooks that move organic traffic.
WordPress
76 articles · Themes, plugins, hosting, and the WP stack we use to publish here every week.
Guides
120 articles · Long-form, step-by-step playbooks for the affiliate channels worth investing in.
Statistics
38 articles · Industry data, trends, and benchmarks pulled from primary research and reports.
● REVIEWS · 127 TOOLS TESTED
Honest tool reviews. Run on live campaigns.
Every tool below was paid for, plugged into a real campaign, and run for at least four weeks before we filed.
ProxiesTrackersAnti-detect BrowsersSEOAI ToolsVPNs
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● FROM THE BLOG
Latest from the blog.
Reviews, comparisons, and playbooks pulled from live campaigns — written by people who actually run them.
Digital Marketing Market Size, Growth & Trends (2026–2035): The Ecosystem Every Affiliate Marketer Lives Inside
Jitendra Vaswani
May 2, 2026
Content Marketing Market Size, Growth & Trends (2026–2035): Why Content Is Still the Greatest Affiliate Asset
Jitendra Vaswani
May 2, 2026
E-Commerce Market Size, Growth & Trends (2026–2035): The Complete Guide for Affiliate Marketers
Jitendra Vaswani
May 2, 2026
SEO Services Market Size, Growth & Trends (2026–2035): Why SEO Is the Highest-ROI Channel for Affiliate Marketers
Jitendra Vaswani
May 2, 2026
Email Marketing Market Size, Growth & Trends (2026–2035): The Most Profitable Channel You Might Be Underusing
Jitendra Vaswani
May 2, 2026
● FOUNDER · JITENDRA VASWANI
Man behind AffiliateBooster.
Jitendra Vaswani started AffiliateBooster in 2017 because the trade press kept missing the story — that affiliate had quietly become the second-largest paid-acquisition channel for thousands of brands, and nobody was reporting it from the operator’s seat.
Eight years later the newsroom covers the channel daily — from payout disputes and network policy shifts to the creator deals reshaping CPA economics. The work has shipped from stages at NamesCon, DomainX Bangalore, and the Affiliate World floor in Bangkok.
— Jitendra
Speaking
NamesCon · DomainX · Affiliate World
Writing
BloggersIdeas · DigiExe · Megablogging
Network
12 cities · 4 continents
● MEET THE TEAM
The people behind every byline.
A small newsroom of working writers, editors, and operators. Every name on this page has shipped real campaigns — and is reachable for a follow-up question.
Jitendra Vaswani
Founder & Editor-in-Chief
Strategy · Networks
@jitendravaswani
Vashishtha Kapoor
Senior Writer & SEO Lead
Long-form · SEO
@vashishthakapoor
Diksha Dutt
HR & Sales
Partnerships · Ops
@dikshadutt
Roshan Jha
Contributing Writer
eCom · Dropshipping
@roshanjha
● THE COMMUNITY
Where 35,000 affiliate marketers actually talk shop.
New posts, reels, and threads — twice a day. Pick the platform that fits how you read.
● WHAT THEY SAY
Read by operators. Quoted by reporters.
A decade of reporting from inside the channel earns trust the slow way. Here’s some of it.
AffiliateBooster has become my Monday morning read. Cuts through the press-release noise and surfaces the deals, networks, and tactics that actually move the needle. No B.S., real numbers, written by someone who has run the playbook.
Sarah Chen
Founder, GrowthGardener
The legal corners of affiliate — disclosures, FTC, GDPR, network terms — are usually covered badly or not at all. AffiliateBooster gets it right. I forward their reporting to clients regularly.
Marcus Reyes
Affiliate Manager, Shopify Plus
Building a publication operators actually read takes years and a lot of right calls. Jitendra has put in both. AffiliateBooster has earned its spot among the handful of trade outlets I check before talking to a source.
Priya Bhattacharya
SEO Lead, ConvertKit
I've been quoted, interviewed, and occasionally pushed back at by AffiliateBooster — exactly what good trade press is supposed to do. Friendly, tenacious, and worth the inbox space.
Greg Holstein
CEO, BuiltWith Reports
We track the affiliate channel across six European markets. AffiliateBooster is one of the few sources that breaks regional payout shifts before our networks do. It has saved us money more than once.
Daniel Kim
Director of Partnerships, Webflow
I've watched the AffiliateBooster team work the conference floor for years. They listen, they fact-check, they file. The interview archive is a record of how the channel has actually evolved.
Emma Whittaker
Senior Affiliate Strategist, Hims
● FREQUENTLY ASKED
Everything you might want to ask before subscribing.
If your question isn’t here, write to the desk: hello@affiliatebooster.com. A real person replies within 24 hours, Monday through Friday.
Is the Saturday Briefing actually free?
Yes. Free for as long as it has been — eight years and counting. We make money from sponsorships in the briefing (clearly labeled), the annual summit, and a small number of consulting engagements. Reader fees aren't the model.
Who writes for AffiliateBooster?
Every byline belongs to a working operator with at least five years inside the channel. We don't outsource to content mills, and nothing gets published as an unedited AI rewrite of a press release. Paid placements are labeled “Sponsored” at the top.
How is the partner directory different from a comparison post?
We vet every entry quarterly — payout terms, cookie windows, fraud-detection posture, and how fast the network actually pays. Entries that drop quality get removed. Comparison posts are static. The directory isn't.
Can I pitch a story or guest column?
Yes — pitches@affiliatebooster.com. Lead with the data and the conflict-of-interest disclosure. We respond to every operator pitch, even the ones we pass on, usually inside a week.
Do you sell my email address?
No. Ever. The list is held by ConvertKit on infrastructure inside the EU. We don't share, rent, or syndicate subscriber data — not to sponsors, not to partner networks, not to anyone.
Who reads the briefing?
About 35,400 operators across 92 countries. The largest cohort: in-house program managers at SaaS, fintech, and e-commerce brands. Roughly 18% are agency-side; about 11% are creators running their own affiliate stack.
How do I get into the Operators Slack?
It's invite-only. The bar: you (or your client) does more than $50K/month in tracked affiliate revenue, and you're willing to share a quarterly anonymous data point for the annual report. Apply at affiliatebooster.com/slack.
Is there a paid tier or membership?
Not yet. The annual report and a private operators dataset are paid products. The newsroom and the directory are not, and there is no plan to paywall them.