While streaming services are hugely successful, subscription press services are not, which are showing rather modest results. To speed up the number of new subscriptions, Apple has decided to launch an affiliate program where each subscription will bring a nice sum to the site that will be the author of the affiliate link.
Here is Apple News + Program
Still unavailable in France, Apple News + is a press service where you find the best magazines and newspapers which are refreshed at the same rate as the paper version. Today, the service works rather well, the Cupertino company manages to recruit new paying subscribers and the media are quite satisfied with the agreement.
However, Apple would like its service to be even more successful, for subscriptions to accelerate, the company had two choices, either increase advertising campaigns or offer an affiliate program.
The advantage of the second solution is that the sites are responsible for disseminating the latest innovations in the service. Apple has nothing to do except give the commission to provide motivation!
Affiliate selling has become something essential for many large companies such as Amazon, Fnac, Cdiscount … All of them offer to promote products and earn a commission. The majority offer very low commissions with revenue percentages that can go below 5% on each sale.
Apple has decided to offer the same system, but with much more attractive commissions. Indeed, as soon as a site will generate a subscription via its affiliate link, it will receive a commission of 400% (no, you’re not dreaming).
Apple said in a statement:
We are delighted to announce the launch of our latest affiliate program – Apple News +. It’s a great new way to earn extra commission by signing in to a new Apple service. Apple News + pays a one-time premium of 400% on paid membership based on the local market rate. For example, after the 30-day trial period, partners will receive $ 39.99 per subscription in the US and £ 39.99 per subscription in the UK.
For a subscription of $ 9.99/month, Apple will therefore pay the sum of $ 39.99. Imagine the significant increase in revenue for a website that only earns money with advertisements, affiliate and sponsored posts!
As of now, US, UK, Canadian and Australian sites can apply to retrieve Apple’s approval to join the program. To motivate visitors to click and subscribe to Apple News +, the Cupertino company will provide several creative resource tools of different sizes. There will be banners or images in several formats.