{"id":357781,"date":"2026-03-25T19:35:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T19:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/357781\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T19:35:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T19:35:11","slug":"youtube-is-bringing-affiliate-shopping-features-to-more-creators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/357781\/","title":{"rendered":"YouTube is bringing affiliate shopping features to more creators"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">YouTube creators can start making money earlier in their careers. On Wednesday, the company said it&#8217;s <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/blog.youtube\/creator-and-artist-stories\/youtube-shopping-expansion-500-subscribers\/\" data-i13n=\"cpos:1;pos:1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:reducing;cpos:1;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkPosition&quot;:&quot;1&quot;,&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yPosition&quot;:&quot;1&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;reducing&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\">reducing<\/a> the Shopping affiliate program subscriber threshold from 1,000 to 500.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">The affiliate program launched in 2022, <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/you-tube-is-bringing-affiliate-shopping-features-to-shorts-143016212.html\" data-i13n=\"cpos:2;pos:1\" data-ylk=\"slk:allowing creators to earn kickbacks;cpos:2;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkPosition&quot;:&quot;2&quot;,&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yPosition&quot;:&quot;1&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;allowing creators to earn kickbacks&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">allowing creators to earn kickbacks<\/a> when viewers buy products tagged in their videos. It applies to YouTube Shorts, VOD and Live content. Creators will still need to meet the YouTube Partner Program&#8217;s <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/youtube\/answer\/72851?hl=en&amp;co=GENIE.Platform%3DAndroid\" data-i13n=\"cpos:3;pos:1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:other requirements;cpos:3;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkPosition&quot;:&quot;3&quot;,&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yPosition&quot;:&quot;1&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;other requirements&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\">other requirements<\/a> to reap the benefits.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">Perhaps not a coincidence, the move comes only a day after Meta <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/social-media\/meta-is-letting-creators-fill-their-reels-with-shopping-links-232406681.html\" data-i13n=\"cpos:4;pos:1\" data-ylk=\"slk:added shopping links to Reels;cpos:4;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkPosition&quot;:&quot;4&quot;,&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yPosition&quot;:&quot;1&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;added shopping links to Reels&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">added shopping links to Reels<\/a>. Creators on Facebook and Instagram can now link to up to 30 distinct products from marketplace partners in a single video.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"YouTube creators can start making money earlier in their careers. On Wednesday, the company said it&#8217;s reducing the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":357782,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[173301,85,46,125,678,119343],"class_list":["post-357781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-affiliate-program","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-technology","tag-youtube","tag-youtube-shorts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=357781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/357782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}