Publishers Clearing House

Publishers Clearing House: $1B in 2018 sales from giveaways

Sam reports Publishers Clearing House did roughly $1 billion in sales in 2018, running giveaways across 8 websites where extra entries require buying a magazine subscription or merchandise, earning huge affiliate revenue.

“Publishers Clearing House reportedly did $1 billion in sales in 2018. And the way that it works is they own 8 different websites, one of them being, uh, Publishing Clearinghouse, like their main website. And you can see giveaways that they're doing. Like right now, there's one, win a $3 million dream home, and you enter your email. And in order to get more entries, you have to buy a magazine subscription or a piece of merchandise, and they take a massive amount of affiliate revenue.”