Forex Affiliate Compliance: Promoting Regulated Brokers
The operational side of advertising regulated financial products, written for affiliates who would rather keep their domains and ad accounts than test the limits.
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The Shazam Blog
Playbooks, teardowns and honest numbers from six verticals of affiliate marketing.
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Choosing an Affiliate Network Without Getting Shaved
A practical method for vetting networks and agencies before you send volume, including how to run a controlled shave test, what to ask a manager, and why the headline revshare number lies.
Read postAI Tools Affiliate Programs: The Operator Guide
The fastest-growing tech sub-vertical is also the least stable. How to price churn, spot products with staying power, and build content that outlives the offer.
Read postMobile Game Affiliate Offers: CPI, CPE and Revenue Share
A $9 CPE offer only beats a $1.20 CPI offer above a specific event rate. Here is the arithmetic, plus what attribution and scrubbing do to your numbers.
Read postWebinar Funnel Affiliate Guide for High-Ticket Offers
Registration is easy. Getting people to actually turn up is where the money is lost. A step-by-step teardown of webinar and application funnels, with the arithmetic.
Read postSEO for Casino Affiliates: Ranking in the Hardest Niche
Casino SERPs are dominated by sites with a decade of history and six-figure link budgets. Here is how a newer operator finds room, and what to build first.
Read postHow to Monetize Telegram Traffic: Channels, Groups, Bots
Telegram audiences convert harder than almost any other free traffic source, and they are also the easiest to destroy. Here is how the economics actually work.
Read postHosting Affiliate Programs: What Still Works in 2026
Web hosting built the affiliate industry's biggest bounties. Here is how that market matured, where the margin quietly moved up-stack, and what kind of content converts now.
Read postSaaS Affiliate Programs: The Recurring Commission Math
Recurring commissions look like free money until you model churn. A cohort-by-cohort breakdown of what SaaS programs actually pay, and how to vet one before you send traffic.
Read postNegative Carryover: The Clause That Eats Your Revenue
One player wins big in March and you do not get paid again until August. This is how negative carryover works, where it hides in the terms, and how to negotiate it out.
Read postCrypto Affiliate Traffic: Sources That Convert in 2026
Seven traffic sources for crypto offers, compared on intent temperature, funnel length and failure mode — plus the cost-per-qualified-deposit math for three of them side by side.
Read postSub ID Tracking: How Affiliates Find Profitable Traffic
Most campaigns that look break-even are a profitable segment carrying a loss-making one. Sub ID tracking is how you separate them before you give up on the whole thing.
Read postForex Affiliate Funnels That Turn Cold Traffic Into Deposits
Four funnel archetypes for cold forex traffic, a stage-by-stage teardown of where 10,000 clicks disappear, and why the same funnel dies when you move it to a new market.
Read postiGaming Revshare vs CPA: Choosing the Right Deal
Two break-even numbers decide every iGaming deal, and most affiliates only ever calculate one of them. Here is the full framework, with the cohort math worked out.
Read postAffiliate Marketing KPIs Explained: EPC, CR, LTV, ROI
Every affiliate metric answers one question well and several questions badly. Here is what EPC, CR, ROI, ROAS, CPA, RPM and LTV each actually tell you, with the arithmetic.
Read postCrypto Exchange Affiliate Commission Models Compared
A $150 CPA and a 50% lifetime revenue share can pay the same affiliate wildly different amounts. Here is the arithmetic, the crossover points, and the small print that changes both.
Read postRevenue share vs CPA: the math behind the choice
Most affiliates pick a payout model out of habit. Here is the arithmetic that should decide it: retention thresholds, cohort curves, capital velocity and the risks on both sides.
Read postCrypto affiliate marketing in 2026: a field guide
Exchanges still pay the best lifetime economics online, but the traffic that earns them changed. What converts now, what quietly died, and how to price a program before you send traffic.
Read postiGaming funnels that convert: a teardown with math
The gap between a 2% and an 8% click-to-registration rate is almost never the casino. It is the funnel. Here is the full chain, the arithmetic behind each step, and how to find the leak.
Read postThe two-layer stack for high-ticket affiliate income
Four-figure commissions arrive at random. Subscription commissions arrive every month. Run both and the random layer stops deciding whether you can keep going. Here is the math behind it.
Read postForex Affiliate Programs: How the Payouts Actually Work
A practitioner breakdown of the four forex payout models, what makes a first-time deposit qualified, and why the broker's own economics decide the size of the CPA you get offered.
Read postCrypto Affiliate Programs: A Full Operator's Guide
A working breakdown of exchange, wallet, tool and tax offers in crypto — payout mechanics, qualification gates, attribution windows, and choosing programs that hold up when volume dries up.
Read postVPN Affiliate Programs: A Practical Operator Guide
Payout structures, refund clawbacks, geo economics and honest positioning — what changes once you treat VPN as a subscription business instead of a product.
Read postCasino Affiliate Marketing: The Complete Operator Guide
From click to first deposit to the twelfth month of a player's life — the full mechanics of a casino affiliate deal, and the clauses that decide what you actually get paid.
Read postGaming Affiliate Marketing: The Complete Operator Guide
Game keys, pre-registrations, in-app purchases, subscriptions and hardware are five separate businesses. Here is how each one pays and who it suits.
Read postHigh-Ticket Affiliate Marketing: Four Figures a Sale
Four sales a month can beat two hundred. Here is what qualifies as high-ticket, how commissions get attributed when a salesperson closes weeks later, and the math that makes it work.
Read postS2S Postback Tracking: The Complete Affiliate Guide
Server-to-server postbacks are the only conversion signal that survives modern browsers. Here is how the plumbing works, how to test it, and how to find the conversions you are quietly losing.
Read postPut this into practice
Reading is good. Running offers with 50% revenue share is better.