Product news, partner spotlights, benchmark data and creator economy analysis from the Wooly Network team.
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What Is a Clipping Campaign? Pay Per Clip Content Explained — A clipping campaign pays fans or creators to cut long videos into short clips. Here is how pay per view and pay per approved clip actually compare. (3 November 2026 · 7 min read)
How to Write a UGC Brief Creators Love (Free Template) — A good UGC brief template saves everyone a round of confused messages. Here is the anatomy of a brief, a full copyable template and a filled in example you can adapt today. (28 October 2026 · 7 min read)
Affiliate Platform Comparisons and Alternatives — Honest side by side comparisons of the affiliate networks and partner platforms brands shortlist most, with pricing, fees, contracts and who each one suits best. (12 October 2026 · 15 min read)
Dub Partners Pricing Explained: Plans, Payout Fees, Limits — What each Dub plan includes for affiliate programs, how payout fees and monthly payout caps change the real cost, and a worked example at three sizes. (11 October 2026 · 15 min read)
PartnerStack vs Impact: Which Partner Platform to Choose — A neutral comparison of the two best known partner platforms: who each one is built for, how pricing works, and when neither is the right fit. (10 October 2026 · 14 min read)
Affiliate Networks With No Setup Fee: 9 Options for Startups — Where the real costs hide in affiliate pricing, from deposits and minimums to payout fees, and the networks that let you launch without an entry ticket. (9 October 2026 · 15 min read)
Rewardful vs Dub vs Wooly Network for Startups (2026) — Three affordable ways to launch an affiliate program, compared on price, Stripe tracking, partner recruitment and what partners pay to withdraw their earnings. (8 October 2026 · 16 min read)
Wooly Network vs PartnerStack for SaaS Affiliate Programs — B2B partner software or an open creator marketplace? Costs, partner experience, payouts and recurring commission tracking compared for software companies. (7 October 2026 · 16 min read)
Wooly Network vs Dub Partners: Pricing, Fees and Discovery — Two modern ways to run a creator affiliate program, compared on monthly cost, payout limits, marketplace access and the kind of brand each one is built for. (6 October 2026 · 12 min read)
Dub Partners Alternatives: 7 Affiliate Platforms Compared — Payout caps, payout fees and partner network access decide more than any feature list. Here is how the main alternatives compare for SaaS and creator programs. (5 October 2026 · 18 min read)
Wooly Network vs Impact.com: Which Affiliate Platform Fits? — Pricing, setup time, partner discovery and tracking compared side by side, including the cases where Impact is the better choice for your brand. (4 October 2026 · 12 min read)
Affiliate Marketing for Brands: A Complete Guide — What the channel is actually good at, what it is bad at, how to budget for it honestly, and the operating rhythm that separates a programme that compounds from one that flatlines. (2 October 2026 · 7 min read)
How to Find Affiliates for Your Business — Seven recruiting channels ranked by what they actually return, the outreach message that gets replies, and how to tell a partner who will publish from one who will not. (2 October 2026 · 7 min read)
Affiliate Marketing for Creators: A Complete Guide — How to turn an audience into recurring income without burning it: choosing offers by the maths rather than the rate, where links belong in each format, and the terms that decide whether you get paid. (1 October 2026 · 6 min read)
Affiliate Marketing vs Influencer Marketing: What's the Difference? — One pays for a result, the other pays for a slot. A breakdown of who carries the risk, what each one costs, how to measure them honestly, and why most brands end up running both. (30 September 2026 · 7 min read)
How to Find Affiliate Programs Worth Joining — Where the good programmes actually are, the six terms to check before you apply, and how to tell a brand that will pay you from one that will quietly decline your commissions. (30 September 2026 · 6 min read)
Affiliate Marketing for SaaS: The Complete Playbook — Recurring commission, trial to paid lag, churn clawbacks and self serve versus sales led: the decisions that make a software affiliate programme work, with the numbers to check before you launch one. (29 September 2026 · 8 min read)
Affiliate Disclosure: What the FTC Actually Requires — What the 2023 Endorsement Guides changed, what clear and conspicuous means in practice on each platform, who is liable when a creator gets it wrong, and disclosure wording you can use today. (28 September 2026 · 7 min read)
How Much Do Affiliate Marketers Actually Make? The Real Numbers — The averages you see quoted are distorted by a small number of very large earners. Here is the distribution, what drives the difference, and the formula that predicts your own ceiling. (27 September 2026 · 6 min read)
Newsletter Sponsorships vs Affiliate Deals: Which Pays a Writer More? — Run the arithmetic on both for the same send, including the breakeven list size where affiliate starts winning, and the hybrid structure most experienced newsletter writers actually sign. (26 September 2026 · 6 min read)
How to Recruit Your First 10 Affiliates: A 30 Day Plan — A week by week sequence for going from an empty programme to ten active partners, with the outreach template, the list of people to contact first, and the response rates to expect. (25 September 2026 · 7 min read)
Best Affiliate Networks Compared: How to Choose the Right One — The eight questions that actually decide which network fits, what the major platforms are genuinely good at, and the fee structures and lock-in terms worth reading before you sign anything. (24 September 2026 · 7 min read)
How Much Should You Pay Affiliates? Commission Rates by Industry — A method rather than a number: the margin ceiling, the market floor, typical ranges by category, and why the rate matters less than three other things on your offer. (23 September 2026 · 6 min read)
How to Start an Affiliate Program for Your Business — The sequence that works: the margin maths before the commission, the validation rules before the launch, and the ten partners that matter more than a thousand signups. (22 September 2026 · 8 min read)
Affiliate Marketing for Shopify Stores: Apps, Setup and Commission Rates — How to run affiliates on Shopify without losing margin to discount stacking: app comparison with real fee structures, the discount code trap, and the tracking gaps checkout creates. (21 September 2026 · 7 min read)
Affiliate Fraud: How to Spot It and Stop It — The six schemes that actually cost advertisers money, the signals that expose each one, and a review process that catches them without accusing honest partners of anything. (20 September 2026 · 7 min read)
What Is a Cookie Window in Affiliate Marketing? — The number that decides whether a partner gets paid: how windows work, what length suits your category, why browsers shortened them, and the resets and overlaps that cause most disputes. (19 September 2026 · 7 min read)
Last Click vs First Click Attribution: Which One Pays the Right Partner? — Why last click quietly overpays coupon sites and underpays the content that created the demand, what the alternatives actually cost to run, and how to test incrementality without rebuilding your stack. (18 September 2026 · 6 min read)
CPA vs CPL vs Revenue Share: Which Payout Model to Choose — Four models, one decision: what each one buys, what each one attracts, where each one is gamed, and the hybrid setups that fix the weaknesses of all of them. (17 September 2026 · 6 min read)
How Affiliate Tracking Works — Cookies, click IDs, server postbacks and mobile attribution, explained without the marketing: what each one measures, where each one fails, and why a 30 day window is a promise your server has to keep. (16 September 2026 · 7 min read)
How Affiliate Commissions Work — From the click that freezes the terms to the payment that lands: every state a commission passes through, who decides it, and the two places money quietly disappears. (14 September 2026 · 6 min read)
What Is an Affiliate Network and How Does It Work? — The neutral layer between a brand and the people who recommend it: what a network actually does, how it differs from in-house software and an agency, and how money moves from a click to a payment. (13 September 2026 · 10 min read)
How to create high-converting content — A creator's playbook for high-converting content: hooks that earn the first five seconds, link placement by format, the three metrics that matter, and the affiliate offers worth your next post. (31 August 2026 · 6 min read)
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