Is another affiliate programme worth it if I’m already with LTK, Amazon or Stylink?

Sources: LTK’s German FAQ, Amazon’s German operating agreement (last updated 15 October 2025), its policies and help pages (policies last updated 14 April 2026), Stylink’s terms (August 2026) and its creator page, all read on 21 October 2026; wyrld: creator terms, January 2026, features as of October 2026. “Not mentioned” means the provider’s pages listed here say nothing about it. The terms you accept when you join can say more. The shop counts in the table come from the providers themselves, and they don’t tell you if the products you actually feature are included.

• Shops your programmes don’t cover: if a product comes from a brand whose shop isn’t in your programme, your link earns nothing on it. These might be smaller brands or shops abroad that you show in your stories because you use them yourself.
• Products your programme doesn’t carry: if you can’t find an item on Amazon, Amazon’s help pages suggest looking for a similar product for your influencer page. If you want to show exactly that product, you need a link to a shop that stocks it.
• A different way of being paid: under its terms, Stylink pays per genuine click on links, while LTK and Amazon, according to their own pages, mainly pay on sales. With inspiration content that lots of people tap and few buy straight away, those clicks go unpaid in sales-only programmes. After a product review, when your audience goes straight to buy, a programme that pays per click on links pays you for the clicks, not directly for the order value.

Say you link 40 products in a month and your links get 3,000 clicks between them. 28 products come from shops your programmes pay for, 12 from brands whose shops are missing there. Those 12 get 900 clicks, or 30%. No programme dashboard shows you that number, because those links don’t run through a programme. At most, you’ll find it in your platform’s stats or your bio link tool. You earn nothing on those clicks today, even if someone buys afterwards. What another programme can add depends on those 900 clicks, not on the other 2,100. All figures are assumptions for the example. To put a euro figure on the 900 clicks with your own assumptions, use the calculator further down.

For the 28 covered products, a second link rarely adds anything. With Amazon Associates, for instance, the policies say your session ends as soon as the person reaches Amazon through an affiliate link that isn’t yours. Swapping links there moves commission around rather than earning new commission. A swap can make sense if another programme offers a different rate or way of being paid for the same product.

1. Take the products you featured over the last 30 days, including the ones you didn’t link because no programme fitted.
2. Next to each product, note the shop and the programme you linked through. If there’s no programme next to it, that’s a gap.
3. Pull the clicks per link from your programmes’ dashboards, where they show them. They won’t show clicks on links outside any programme; for those, check your platform’s stats or your bio link tool. Then work out what share goes to products that earn nothing. For products with no link at all, questions in comments and DMs are a good clue.
4. Check what your programmes pay for and how that fits your content: mostly inspiration, or direct recommendations to buy.
5. Read the terms of your programmes and your brand collaboration contracts to see if they set out exclusivity, specific channels or rules for your account.
6. Only then look at which programme covers exactly those shops, products or that way of being paid, and how much work it adds.

• Access: programmes have their own admission rules. With Amazon Associates, for example, the help pages say the team only reviews your application once you have made at least three qualifying sales in the first 180 days, and then looks at every site you listed.
• Links: for each product you decide which programme to link through, and you swap links when a product sells out or a shop stops paying.
• Channels: programmes differ on where links may appear. Under § 3 of Stylink’s terms, its links may be used on Instagram, TikTok, YouTube and in blog posts, and posts on other channels count as misused links. Amazon’s policies rule out offline promotion with affiliate links and name printed material and e-books among others. LTK’s FAQ says you can link LTK on any platform you use.
• Payouts: several programmes mean several payouts and more paperwork for your accounts. According to Stylink’s help centre, you get a Gutschrift (self-billing credit note) by email for each payout.
• Account and agency: if your agency should manage links and see numbers, check what access the programme provides for that and if you may share login details. Programmes handle this differently.
• Exclusivity: brand collaboration contracts can also say if you may link other programmes or brands. If one contains an exclusivity clause, find out what it means for you before you start.

For products from your gap, on wyrld you paste the link or pick the product from the catalogue. wyrld recognises the brand, name and variant, looks for the same item across more than 90,000 partner shops, Amazon included, and automatically creates an affiliate link for each offer it finds. You don’t sign up with any network yourself for this. If the product isn’t in the catalogue, you paste the link from a partner shop under “Can’t find your product?”, and wyrld adds it where possible.

If wyrld finds a product in several shops, your audience sees the offers with prices side by side and buys directly from the shop at no extra cost; the cheapest new offer is labelled “Best price”. According to Bitkom (2022), 65% of German online shoppers say the lowest price is a decisive factor when choosing a shop. Depending on the shop, you earn per click, per sale or both. For the third gap above, that means inspiration that doesn’t lead to a sale straight away can still earn you something where the shop pays per click. Earnings are settled at the start of the following month with a Gutschrift. Brands also pay for campaigns through wyrld Boost that run across many creators, based on KPIs agreed in advance. You decide if you take part.

wyrld’s creator terms don’t require exclusivity. As far as wyrld is concerned, your LTK, Amazon or Stylink links can stay where they are, and your wyrld storefront becomes one more link, for example in your bio. What your other programmes allow is set out in their own terms. If you work with an agency, it manages your storefront with you from its own dashboard and sees the same numbers. wyrld deducts any commission share you agree from your earnings and settles it separately. wyrld is free for creators: no sign-up fee, no subscription, no cost per product. You can cancel with 30 days’ notice, effective at the end of a month.