List of the 6 Best Media Affiliate Programs

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1 Adobe 85% revenue share first month, $72 CPA for stock photos.

Adobe is a world-known brand for its top design software suite with apps like Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign. If you have not yet heard of these apps you just need to know that they are the industry standard when it comes to web and digital design.

Their software suite is a SaaS product, meaning that they require subscriptions instead of one-time payments. I would like to see them offer a recurring commission payout for this product.

Their stock photo site features of course photos, but also videos, 3D assets, and templates for Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, and Premiere Pro. This makes this stock site rather unique and very useful to active customers of their software suite products. It also integrates with Photoshop CC and Illustrator CC.

2 Getty Images Up to 20% revenue share for stock photos and 6% for art photos.

Getty Images has created an affiliate program website with a blog and details about their marketing tools and different programs. They have 3 top brands and websites that you can promote with their different affiliate programs.

Getty Images and iStock Photo is huge stock photo sites with combined inventory of over 200 million assets. You can earn up to 10% revenue share for existing customer sales and up to 20% for new customer sales.

Marketing tools include an API and regular coupon codes and promotions. And of course banners. The banners are available in multiple languages.

The sites are translated into over 10 languages for global reach.

Photos.com offer a curated collection of framed fine photography currently consisting of over 250.000 different photos and new ones added daily.

3 Shutterstock 20% revenue share.

Hugely popular stock photo site with over 228 million photos. You’ll also find editorial photos and music at Shutterstock. 200.000 new photos are added to their archive daily!

They also have over 9 million video clips, including 2 million 4K UHD videos. And also lots of music of all genres.

Shutterstock is truly global. It is translated into 20 languages and accepting 9 currencies.

Advertising material includes a search box and an API.

They pay 20% revenue share of net sales for 30 days.

4 Dreamstime 10% revenue share.

Dreamstime is one the most popular stock marketplace sites online. They offer tons of content at reasonable prices. Their content categories are stock and editorial photos, illustrations, videos, audio. Total number of content creatives are 89 million. Dreamstime also has a large selection of free 189.000 public domain and CC0 photos and also a lot of illustrations.

You can deep link to lots of pages and also search result pages for specific image searches. You can also place a search box on your website. They also have an API for more customized advertising methods.

They have a nice commission rate of 10% recurring revenue share for all the sales or purchases made by your referrals for 3 years. That goes for as long as they register within the 30 day cookie  duration from the time of their affiliate link click.

5 Sovrn //Commerce Wide range of commission rates.

VigLink has changed its name to Sovrn //Commerce. They’re still using the viglink.com domain name though.

I really like that this network has so many world-leading brands part of it. Unfortunately, I think they’ve discontinued their 2-tier commission structure.

You’ll find many of the absolute top fashion brands here like H&M, Victoria’s Secret, and GAP.

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It is simply amazing how many brands and companies are part of this network. It can be a bit of a daunting task, however, to browse and find the best offers, due to a lack of information about each program on the merchant browse and search pages.

However, you won’t need to browse their offers at all as this network has three features and tools that will help you out. One is a unique affiliate linking script. It can automatically add relevant affiliate links to the existing content on your blogs and websites.

The second is called “Anywhere” and is accessible within the affiliate dashboard. It lets you paste URLs to product pages on the actual e-commerce stores part of the network and turn those into monetized affiliate links. Note though that you need to have program approval for each store in advance.

The third option is available on the “Anywhere” page and is a bookmarklet. You need to have your bookmark bar showing in your browser and just drag that button to add a new bookmark. Then you can click on that bookmark, while browsing stores participating with VigLink, to create monetized affiliate links that point to that page you are browsing.

If you want to check out this network yourself you can join the network easily with two clicks to connect your login with your Google account. You can also register without a Google account.

6 TradeTracker Wide range of commission rates.

This affiliate network is available with branches for many countries in different languages. Their primary markets though are the UK and the EU. You can find affiliate programs for many niches, including online shops, fashion and jewelry, travel, trading, gambling, and much more.

The UK part of the network has a massive selection of travel-related offers including from famous brands like Momondo and Trivago.

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A lot of the most popular brands in Europe are part of this network, and you can advertise the ones that are available in your country.

The affiliate network is translated into a lot of different languages, giving it a local feel and making it easy and convenient to use.

They offer an excellent section on their website that lets everyone browse their current offers part of the network before joining. Browse by category or search for your favorite brands.