About AFFDigest
AFFDigest helps affiliate marketers and creators find, compare, verify, and join the best affiliate networks, advertising networks, affiliate programs, and monetization tools.
What makes us different
Unlike traditional directories, every important fact on AFFDigest — payouts, payment terms, commission rates, cookie durations, traffic rules — is traced to an official source with a last-verified date. Our AI-assisted research pipeline drafts listings from official pages; human editors verify every fact before anything is published.
Source-verified
Every field links back to the official page it came from, with a confidence score and date.
Human-reviewed
Our AI-assisted pipeline drafts each listing; an editor reviews it before anything is published.
Kept current
Core facts are re-checked monthly, and every change is logged in our public changelog.
What we track
We cover 430 published listings across three categories, tagged by 371 verticals and 339 countries or regions so you can narrow down to the traffic you actually have.
Affiliate networks (194)
Marketplaces that carry many advertisers’ offers at once. We record payout thresholds, payment frequency and methods, commission models, and tracking.
Ad networks (23)
Places to buy or sell traffic. We record ad formats, pricing models, minimum deposits, targeting, and the traffic rules that decide whether a campaign survives review.
Affiliate programs (213)
Single-brand programs you join directly. We record commission rate, cookie window, recurring terms, attribution, approval type, and payout threshold.
How a listing is built
Every listing goes through the same five steps. Nothing skips them, including listings a company submits itself.
- Read the official pages. We fetch the network’s own site and, where it exists, its affiliate or publisher terms page — that is where the real payout and traffic rules live, not on the marketing homepage.
- Extract the facts. An AI-assisted pipeline pulls the specific values we track and normalises them into consistent units, currencies, and labels so listings can be compared side by side.
- Store the receipt. Each value is saved with the exact URL it came from, the date it was read, and a confidence rating. That is what the small shield icons on a listing reveal when you hover them.
- An editor reviews it. Listings are drafted, never auto-published. An editor checks the extracted values against the source before the listing goes live.
- Re-check and log changes. Core facts are re-read on a schedule, and when a payout, threshold, or rule changes it is written to our public data changelog.
That process has produced 11,167 individually sourced facts so far, traced to 1,079 distinct source pages. See what changed recently.
How scoring works
Every listing carries an overall score out of 10, plus the individual dimensions behind it. The dimensions differ by category, because the things that matter differ:
- Affiliate networks: payment reliability, support, tracking, offer quality, and how approachable they are for beginners.
- Ad networks: traffic quality, targeting depth, pricing, and support.
- Affiliate programs: commission, cookie window, conversion strength, and support.
Listings also carry separate fit ratings for media buyers and for content creators, because the best network for someone buying pop traffic is rarely the best one for someone writing reviews. Scores are set by our editors from the verified data — they are not for sale, and no payment moves a listing up a ranking.
What we won’t do
- We don’t guess. If we cannot source a payout threshold or a commission rate, the field is left out rather than filled with a plausible number. A listing with gaps is more useful than one that is confidently wrong.
- We don’t read silence as a “no”. A feature is only marked as offered when a source confirms it. A page that never mentions deep linking tells us nothing either way, so we say nothing.
- We don’t publish unreviewed AI text. The pipeline drafts; a person decides what goes live.
- We don’t hide the money. Affiliate links and sponsored placements are labelled where they appear, not buried in a policy page.
How we make money
Some outbound links are affiliate links, and some placements are sponsored — both are always disclosed. Sponsorships never change editorial scores or rankings. See our affiliate disclosure for the full detail.
Found something wrong?
Terms change and pages move — if a figure here does not match what a network tells you, we want to know. Send us the listing and what you saw, and we will re-check it against the source, correct it, and log the change publicly. Report a correction.
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