Sponsored offers with a tag on every send.
Offers approved for email, one tracking link each. Put the send in sub1 and it comes back on the postback for each conversion.
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Issue 113: five apps worth your commute
Morning. This week: a budgeting app that finally stopped nagging, and a puzzle game we couldn't put down.
Sponsored
We're paid if you install.
1. A budgeting app that sorts your spending by the week, not the month.
2. A notes app that opens to a blank page and nothing else.
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Who it's for
For newsletters that sell sponsored slots.
- You send on a schedule Daily, weekly or monthly, to a list you built.
- You sell sponsored slots A block in the issue, or a whole send when the offer allows it.
- You label paid content Readers can tell a sponsored block from your writing.
Not you? Sending by SMS or push instead? Those channels aren't supported.
How it works
One link per offer, one tag per send.
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Tell us your list
Topics, countries and how often you send. We check which offers allow email and post the shortlist in your channel.
#yournewsletter-affiliateos Shared with AffiliateOSToday
YouYou
Weekly, about apps worth trying. US readers. Saturday sends.
AOAffiliateOS team
Three offers allow email for US lists: Harbor Blocks, Copper Kitchen and Quiet Orchard. Placements only, no dedicated sends.
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Tag the send
Use the offer's tracking link with your email platform's subscriber ID tag in
sub_id(never an email address) and the issue insub1, such asnl_113.Link for issue 113/click ?off_id=aff_hb40 &pub_id=pub_afos &partner_id=pt_8f2c41 &sub_id={subscriber_id} &sub1=nl_113IDs and amounts are examples from our fictional world. -
See what each send did
sub1comes back on the postback for each conversion, so your tracker or a small endpoint can count sends apart.Postback to your serverGET https://hooks.yournewsletter.example/afos ?action_id=act_2p77 &sub_id=r_20931 &offer_id=aff_hb40 &status=completed &payout=4.20 &sub1=nl_113 &verifier=51e0b9c4a7d2IDs and amounts are examples from our fictional world.
Today
You
Weekly, about apps worth trying. US readers. Saturday sends.
AffiliateOS team
Three offers allow email for US lists: Harbor Blocks, Copper Kitchen and Quiet Orchard. Placements only, no dedicated sends.
/click
?off_id=aff_hb40
&pub_id=pub_afos
&partner_id=pt_8f2c41
&sub_id={subscriber_id}
&sub1=nl_113GET https://hooks.yournewsletter.example/afos
?action_id=act_2p77
&sub_id=r_20931
&offer_id=aff_hb40
&status=completed
&payout=4.20
&sub1=nl_113
&verifier=51e0b9c4a7d2What your subscribers see
Same offer, a different tag each send.
Switch between two issues. The sponsored block changes with your writing; the tag in sub1 changes with the send.
Four apps for a rainy weekend
Short one this week. Four apps we used indoors, and one we deleted by Sunday.
Sponsored
We're paid if you install.
The button's link
/click?off_id=aff_hb40&pub_id=pub_afos&partner_id=pt_8f2c41&sub_id=r_20931&sub1=nl_112 What comes back, per conversion
GET https://hooks.yournewsletter.example/afos?action_id=act_2p31&sub_id=r_20931&offer_id=aff_hb40&status=completed&payout=4.20&sub1=nl_112&verifier=…
Same offer, a new tag. sub_id is each subscriber's ID from your email platform's merge tag; your endpoint, or a tracker, counts conversions per send.
Five apps worth your commute
Morning. This week: a budgeting app that finally stopped nagging, and a puzzle game we couldn't put down.
Sponsored
We're paid if you install.
The button's link
/click?off_id=aff_hb40&pub_id=pub_afos&partner_id=pt_8f2c41&sub_id=r_20931&sub1=nl_113 What comes back, per conversion
GET https://hooks.yournewsletter.example/afos?action_id=act_2p77&sub_id=r_20931&offer_id=aff_hb40&status=completed&payout=4.20&sub1=nl_113&verifier=…
Same offer, a new tag. sub_id is each subscriber's ID from your email platform's merge tag; your endpoint, or a tracker, counts conversions per send.
Money
What you get paid for.
Every offer on your list comes with how it pays and what it pays you, in dollars. No rewards for subscribers.
Pay shapes that fit
- Pay per sign-up
- A subscriber creates an account from your send.
- per action
- Pay per trial start
- A subscriber starts a free or paid trial.
- per action
- Pay per install (CPI)
- A subscriber installs the app on their phone.
- per install
An example shortlist
- Harbor Blocks $4.20 per install
- Copper Kitchen $3.10 per sign-up
- Quiet Orchard $2.40 per install
Tracking and money
Tracking and money work the same everywhere.
One conversion, in order: your user's tap, our click record, the advertiser's confirmation, then a signed postback to your server.
- Tap u_48213
- Click clk_7Q2f81
- Conversion advertiser confirms
- Postback signed
- Your server 200 OK
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Click Tracking
Every tap is recorded with your user's ID and up to ten of your own values, sub1 to sub10.
How clicks are tracked -
Signed postbacks
Each one carries an HMAC-SHA256 verifier made with your secret. Without a secret, we don't send.
How postbacks work -
Fraud Defense
Suspect installs are held, unpaid, until reviewed. Traffic Quality lists the users we reject, with the reason.
How fraud checks work -
Reporting
Trace any conversion from tap to your server, or download every conversion as a CSV.
How reporting works
Before you start
Rules for email.
What's allowed, what's yours to handle and where we say no.
- Approval
Email-approved offers only. Many offers don't allow email traffic.
- Your job
CAN-SPAM applies to your sends, and compliance is yours.
- Required
Some advertisers send a suppression list, and you must remove those addresses before you send. We have no tool to scrub it for you.
- Ask first
Dedicated sends, only where the offer allows them.
Questions
What newsletters ask.
Something else? Write to hello@affiliateos.ai and we reply by email.
Is every offer allowed in email?
No. Many offers don't allow email traffic. Your list holds only offers approved for it.
Can I do a dedicated send?
Only where the offer allows it. Ask in your channel before you schedule one.
How do I know an offer is still running before I send?
Get an email when an offer you run changes its payout or stops running. Each person on your team sets up their own under Email alerts in the portal. New clicks on a stopped offer don't pay, so check your alerts before the send goes out.
What about suppression lists?
Some advertisers send one and require you to remove those addresses before you mail. We have no tool to do it for you, so it's done in your email platform.
Does it work with my email platform?
Yes, if it can add each subscriber's ID to a link with a merge tag. The rest is a plain link.
Fill a sponsored slot with an email-approved offer.
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