Affiliate Marketing 2025: What’s Working and What’s Not? Share Your Experience!

[shivamkumar0x]

Hey fellow marketers!
We’ve all seen how fast affiliate marketing has evolved — from classic blog + SEO combos to TikTok, Smartlinks, native ads, AI-powered funnels, and beyond.

I'm starting this thread to discuss what’s ACTUALLY working for you in 2025, and what hasn’t delivered results.

Let’s help each other level up by sharing:

1. Your niche(s): (E.g., finance, dating, health, Nutra, sweepstakes, etc.)
2. Traffic sources: (SEO, PPC, YouTube, Reddit, Telegram, Twitter/X, etc.)
3. Monetization models you're using: (CPL, CPS, CPA, COD, etc.)
4. Top 1-2 affiliate platforms you trust
5. One mistake to avoid in affiliate marketing
6. Your biggest affiliate win so far!

Here’s mine to get the convo started:

• Niche: Finance & sweepstakes
• Traffic: Reddit organic + Instagram reels
• Model: CPL + CPA
• Platform: Using MyLead right now — great support and tools like Offerwalls & Content Lockers
• Mistake: Not tracking properly early on. Lost a lot of conversions.
• Biggest win: Made $550 in a single day from one viral reel linked to a sweepstake landing page.

So what about you? Let’s make this the ultimate affiliate marketing thread of 2025!

 

[Leeho]

Love this thread — it’s always valuable to see what’s actually working on the ground.

Niche: Job offers & rewards (occasional fintech)
Traffic: Mainly Facebook + Reddit + native. We also run email drops when working with warmer leads.
Model: CPL / CPA
Platform: Affmy and Lemonads lately.
Mistake: Scaling too fast on social without proper account separation — which is why we started using AdsPower to manage multiple browser environments and keep accounts safe across different IPs and identities. Saved us from a lot of wasted spend and bans.
Win: Our team hit $4.2k profit in a week after switching from link arbitrage to a pre-lander + quiz funnel format on Facebook + Reddit combo. Clean targeting + safe accounts = consistent results.

Curious what’s working for others running Reddit traffic — it’s powerful but tricky.

 

[thelegend]

Niche : make money online ,affiliate marketing .I think its an awful and very competitive niche to dive in but this its what i know the most and my passion

Trafic sources : linkedin ,email ,youtube ,forums ,instagram ,facebook ,redit etc

Monetization models : affiliate offers from clickbank ,warriorplus ,digistore24

Network i trust : clickbank ,digitore etc ,but i dont trust them fully ,nowadays you cannot trust your own family

Mistake : dont do my mistake trying to work with so many things ,traffic sources etc .You must focus 1 traffic source or 2 maximum

Biggest win : 3 high ticket sales in one day acumulating a total of aprox 1400$ in one day

 

[T J Tutor]

Biggest win : 3 high ticket sales in one day acumulating a total of aprox 1400$ in one day

The models that this represents are those that provide high payouts and typically have much lower chargebacks.