ClickDealer is heading to AW Summit Bucharest on September 21–23. If you’re attending too, come say hi and catch up with the team
AI shopping is breaking the click-and-cookie attribution model, especially for affiliates working through networks. But the solution may already exist: promo code tracking, a method that has been proving where sales come from for over a century.
ClickDealer is heading to Affiliate World Americas in Cancún on September 7–8. Meet our team and let’s talk traffic, offers, scaling, and new partnership opportunities.
Affiliate spend keeps climbing even as AI Overviews quietly gut the SEO traffic that used to fund it. Here’s what’s actually moving the numbers this quarter: TikTok Shop’s rise as a core income channel, Google’s parasite SEO crackdown opening up vacated rankings, and why last year’s content-affiliate benchmarks no longer apply.
The tracker and hosting setup that works fine for 5 campaigns starts breaking down at 50, but adding tools too early just means paying for something nobody uses. This is a stage-by-stage breakdown of the operational signs that tell you it’s actually time to expand your stack, from a solo setup’s messy assets to a team’s need for centralized logging.
A profitable campaign going red doesn’t always mean the same thing twice. Sometimes it’s a tracking domain quietly getting flagged, sometimes it’s an advertiser tightening validation weeks after the fact, and sometimes there’s no bug at all, just a market that moved on. Here’s how to tell which autopsy you’re actually performing.
