affiliate marketing

noun

: a marketing arrangement in which someone who has an established affiliation with a business earns commissions for promoting products or services offered by that business

Affiliate marketing involves referring people to purchase various products. If someone buys a product after clicking on your link or using your code, you receive a commission.

—Jessica Jones-Gorman

The beauty of affiliate marketing is that it scales. You do the work once writing a blog post, creating a video, or even just having conversations and you can earn from it repeatedly.

—Ilyce Glink

affiliate marketing programs/partnerships

Word History

First Known Use

1998, in the meaning defined above