The Wirecutter

Amazon halved Sam's affiliate rate overnight on a $3-5K/month income stream

Sam's old blogs passively earned $3-5K/month from Amazon affiliate links at 6-9%. Amazon cut the rates roughly in half with no warning. Minor for him, but the same change wiped out huge chunks of revenue for sites like Wirecutter and BuzzFeed.

“it makes just like small amounts of money, like $3,000 to $5,000 a month off Amazon affiliates. And I don't even check it. It just runs because I've just written a lot of content over the years. They changed their rate and someone told me in the group, I think that I forget what I was earning. I don't even check it. I think I was earning 6% to 9% for affiliate revenue and then they changed it to— they like halved it.”