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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 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.

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Immense loss for PcPartPicker as well, their entire revenue stream was built on Amazon affiliate links.

don't put all your eggs in one basket

I hope they have other retailers' affiliate links too, like Newegg.

They do. You can see it via the codes embedded in the links.

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%.

Volume pricing is gone.

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.

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.

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.

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