Ok, so basically I used to do FB page affiliate marketing in like 2014, but our page got hacked and we never got it back, so I basically retired. Since then i've moved on to other things.
As a hobby though, I collect concert videos and am a big music fan in general, so I am constantly purchasing DVDs/Blurays and have an old Youtube channel with a lot of enhanced high quality clips and restored vintage concerts/bootleg concert footage. These days big music companies have changed their online copyright strategy and for the most part no longer go around taking down clips (unless you are uploading entire concerts) instead they just collect the ad revenue on said videos because it's a win for them, one small clip from a full movie isn't taking business away, so they get paid in both ad revenue and new customers/fans from people that learned about their product from a clip. Some of my channel's clips get tens of thousands of views per day and I've always tried to link people to where they can get the discs of the full concerts anyway using regular links and copy-pastes from wikipedia, the concert movie is a bit of a dying art and it saddens me a bit, so genuinely excites me to see these videos appreciated and discovered by new fans.
Today I got an Amazon affiliate email from my old account showing my $0 revenue, which I get from time to time, but I didn't really have the thought until today that I could be using affiliate links in the descriptions that link to the dvds/blurays. I know the commission rates are terrible on Amazon these days, but I was wondering if Walmart or Target had better rates for stuff like that. Even if the rates were terrible, they still give you commission for everything else bought within 24h correct?
It also seems that on Facebook a quality clip posted in a group can get shared around exponentially more than Youtube (potential for tens of millions of views sometimes), so I was envisioning the potential for many clips that are getting seen by millions of people, with a few of them interested in purchasing the full concert, could add up to a viable amount of commission when multiplied to a large enough audience? I can't see this practice pissing off the copyright holders any more than usual, in fact maybe less so because they are getting free traffic and album sales, but would Amazon & other affiliate systems have a problem with this type of marketing on Youtube and social media?
Yes, I am basically making money off someone else's content, a parasite of sorts, but I don't see how it isn't a win-win for every party involved, so it doesn't make me feel guilty.
Any feedback, advice, or thoughts, from people more experienced than myself would be appreciated, because i've been out of the loop for a while, and i'm broke would be great to have a trickle of passive income that doesn't sound like a terrible idea to you guys. Cheers.
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