Articles 85
Field notes on affiliate marketing and media buying, organised by series.
84 full English articles appear first. Other entries contain a translated summary and a link to the Chinese original.
Connect Meta's Official MCP in 5 Minutes to Automate Your Ads
Meta's official ads MCP connects to Claude Code or ChatGPT in about 5 minutes, exposing 100 tools (57 read, 43 write); new ads default to paused.
IndustryFull English article
PropellerAds at GTC Shanghai: Cocktail Night for 50 Guests
PropellerAds will be at booth A03 at GTC Shanghai on Nov 4–5 and host an invite-only cocktail night for up to 50 guests; all applications are reviewed.
Buying ToolsFull English article
High-Severity PHP Flaws: 3 Places Media Buyers Should Check
Two PHP flaws rated 9.2/10 allow unauthenticated code execution. Peter checks his tracker, landing pages and postbacks, and patches in 5 minutes with Claude Code.
IndustryFull English article
Ignored for 10 Seconds, the Push Prompt Disappears
Chrome 155 on Android turns the push opt-in prompt into a small card that dismisses after 10 seconds, likely making new subscribers costlier.
Case StudiesFull English article
Case Study: Down $718 in Week 3, Net $2,286 After 30 Days
Case study of AffLIFT forum posts testing ProPush Constructor: common mistakes, and results like dood's 42.6% ROI and Anthony's $2,286 net profit in 30 days.
Case StudiesFull English article
Case Study: $17,523 Into Paid Social for 15K Conversions
A game-offer affiliate ran Paid Social and Popunder side by side for 30 days: Paid Social cost 38% less per target action, at $1.16, with 15,091 actions.
ClickBox SeriesFull English article3.8k WeChat reads
Case Study: 60% of Revenue from Pakistan, $1,989 Net on Facebook
A Zeydoo case: an affiliate sent Facebook traffic to Clickbox Fixed CPL offers in Pakistan, Bangladesh and South Africa: $7,365 spent, $9,354 revenue, 27% ROI.
IndustryFull English article
Zeydoo Profit Peak: Up to $12,000 in Growth Bonuses
Zeydoo's Profit Peak pays 3%, 5%, then 10% of your month-over-month revenue growth, capped at $4,000 a month. How it works and why to join early (ends Dec 15).
PlaybooksFull English article
Case Study: Just One Extra Question, Why Did It Earn 18% Less?
Six cases where affiliates edited ProPush Constructor landing pages and it backfired, like one extra survey question that cut revenue 18%, plus 10 testing tips.
NotesFull English article
Affnomy: One Year Back, My Personal Website Is Live
One year after returning to my WeChat Official Account, with 70+ articles written, I built them a home: Affnomy, my personal website, launching today.
IndustryFull English article
Meta Muse AI Agent Buys for You: Who Do Ads Target Next?
Meta's Muse agent compares prices and orders for you, asking once before it pays. If no one is at checkout, where does ad money go? 1.8M downloads in 12 days.
AI ToolsFull English article4.9k WeChat reads
Jev + AI Agent: An Ad Creative Library That Updates Every Hour
I ran TypeSafe's new Jev model over a Push creative library: 400 ads tagged in 20.6 seconds for under 3 cents, then an AI Agent rewrites and tests the best.
Facebook AdsFull English article1k WeChat reads
ProPush Case Study: $3 a Day on Facebook to 79% ROI in 3 Months
A publisher ran Facebook Ads to a ProPush Constructor Social Survey lander from $3 a day: $883 spent in three months, $1,581 back, 79% ROI, and how he scaled.
PlaybooksFull English article1.8k WeChat reads
What Is Affiliate Marketing? A Beginner's Guide to Earning in USD
Affiliate marketing explained for beginners: how a $100 sale becomes a $20 commission, how attribution works, CPS vs CPL vs CPI, and what to do first.
Buying ToolsFull English article
Simple Kuma: The Open-Source Ad Tracker That Cut My Monthly Bill
Simple Kuma is a free open-source ad tracker on GitHub. How I installed it with an AI agent in 10 minutes, ran the first click, added a theme and auto rules.
Buying ToolsFull English article1.9k WeChat reads
AdsPower Guide: How to Set Up Facebook Ad Account Environments
After another wave of Facebook BM bans, I rebuilt an ad account environment from scratch in AdsPower: proxy, fingerprint, RPA warm-up and pricing, step by step.
AI ToolsFull English article
I Built a Six-Person Media Buying Team for $30
Hands-on with xAI's Grok Bot: a cloud VM the bots share, 6 bots with defined roles in one group chat, what impressed me and where it burns tokens.
AI ToolsFull English article
Cloudflare Workers: A Custom Ad Optimization Tool for $5 a Month
My custom ad optimization tool Polaris runs on Cloudflare Workers' $5 plan: 250 cron triggers, a 5 GB D1 database, 480K requests last cycle and a bill of $0.15.
AI ToolsFull English article
PropellerAds NIKO 3.0: Now in Anthropic's Connector Directory
NIKO 3.0 is a full rewrite of PropellerAds' AI copilot: multi-session, approval cards before changes, and a one-click MCP connector in Anthropic's directory.
ClickBox SeriesFull English article
Case Study: Only 580K Facebook Users, So How Did eCPM Hit $81?
After the latest Facebook BM ban wave, a look at Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan, two small GEOs newly added to Clickbox offer #20418, and how to test them.
AI ToolsFull English article
Zeydoo MCP: Let an AI Assistant Handle Your Publisher Account
Zeydoo's MCP connector gives an AI assistant read-only access to your publisher account: stats, offers and rates, catalog, balance. Connected in two minutes.
One-Person CompanyFull English article
Wise Business Account 90-Day Rule: What It Means for Affiliates
Wise now makes Hong Kong business accounts move incoming funds out within 90 days. What changed, who it affects, and my 2 banks + 2 virtual banks setup.
AI ToolsFull English article
WorkBuddy: Built-In AI Agents and Scheduled Competitor Ad Spying
More than a month with Tencent's WorkBuddy desktop agent: why it's easier to start than Claude Code or Codex, its four layers, and my competitor ad spy setup.
Traffic SourcesFull English article
PropellerAds Paid Social Case Study: $128.95 CPM, 42,000 Payments
PropellerAds case study: a gaming offer on Paid Social traffic paid a $128.95 CPM yet got 42,097 payments in 30 days at $13 each, 9% cheaper than Pop traffic.
One-Person CompanyFull English article1k WeChat reads
Airwallex AgentOS: My Digital Employee Takes On Finance Chores
Airwallex AgentOS connected to Claude Code in 10 minutes, no code. My digital employee now matches 30 days of payments, opens invoices and preps statements.
AI ToolsFull English article
ProPush MCP Tested: One Prompt Pulls Four Days of Revenue
ProPush MCP tested: connected in under two minutes via OAuth, then one prompt pulled four days of data: $2,577.96, 610K impressions, 10,865 subscriptions.
PlaybooksFull English article
MVAS: Evergreen Vertical, So Why Do Beginners Always Lose Money?
What MVAS and DCB are, how subscription flows differ by GEO, where money leaks in the carrier-aggregator-network chain, and how to start with PIN API.
IndustryFull English article5.7k WeChat reads
Hims Spends $1.1B a Year on Ads: The GLP-1 Weight-Loss Boom
Hims tops $2 billion a year, up 60%, mostly on GLP-1 weight-loss injections. How online consultations became a traffic business with $70-500 payouts.
AI ToolsFull English article1.3k WeChat reads
After Installing This, I Closed My PropellerAds Dashboard
PropellerAds' official MCP connector: what it is, a 10-minute install, 41 tools, the EST time zone trap, and my 7-day test at +12.7% ROI.
NotesFull English article
Vibe Coding While Paddleboarding: A Hidden Gem at Wanlu Lake
A workday trip to Wanlu Lake: hand tasks to Claude Code and Codex from my phone via UU Remote, paddleboard for three hours, come back to finished automation.
Buying ToolsFull English article
Multilogin: An Essential Anti-Detect Browser for Facebook Ads
I tested Multilogin's free plan: built-in IPs you can pick down to city and ISP, Mimic and Stealthfox engines, cloud phones, paid plans from $7.08 a month.
AI ToolsFull English article
PropellerAds NIKO AI Agent Upgrade: One Chat Box to Run It All
PropellerAds gave its AI agent NIKO a big upgrade: create, edit and monitor every campaign format from one chat window. The official numbers and my three takes.
Traffic SourcesFull English article
PropellerAds Promo Codes (Finally) + an Optimization Guide
After months of asking, a batch of PropellerAds promo codes: existing users got $200 on a $300 top-up, new users get $30 on $200, plus my optimization guide.
One-Person CompanyFull English article12.1k WeChat reads
HK$3,600 a Year to Keep a Hong Kong Company with No Employees
My Hong Kong company's annual renewal bill came to HK$3,600. What that money buys a one-person company run with AI Agents, and why the fixed cost matters.
ClickBox SeriesFull English article
Case Study: 1-3-3 + Manual Targeting Hit 26.87% ROI in 2 Months
Another affiliate's Clickbox run on Facebook in the Philippines and Mozambique: $1,721 net profit at 26.87% ROI in two months with a 1-3-3 test structure.
ClickBox SeriesFull English article
Case Study: 5 Facebook Campaigns Hit 27.5% ROI in South Africa
Zeydoo's official case study of my December 2025 run: 5 Facebook Clickbox campaigns in South Africa, $5,257 spent, $1,444 net profit, 27.5% blended ROI.
NotesFull English article
ChinaJoy 2026 Has Surprises: PropellerAds Booth and After Hours
PropellerAds at ChinaJoy 2026 in Shanghai, July 31 to August 2, booth #W5E103: Interactive Ads, Agent Niko, a Chinese team and an invite-only party on August 1.
AI ToolsFull English article
Building My Own Ad Tracker: Adv Tracking v1 with Claude Design
In my last post I said I'd build a custom tracker. Here's Adv Tracking v1: lightweight, built on a Claude Design system with 4 colors and 20-odd components.
IndustryFull English article
10 Billion Tokens Burned in 3 Months: How to Run Ads in H2 2026
Where 10 billion AI tokens went in 3 months (ad automation, a knowledge base, third-party agents) and my H2 plan: build my own tracker and grow arbitrage tests.
PlaybooksFull English article9.2k WeChat reads
A Hot Traffic Arbitrage Project I Got Working in One Month
ProPush Constructor, the traffic arbitrage project I took from 0 to 1 in a month, and its new AI Assistant that builds landers without your own tokens.
NotesFull English article1.1k WeChat reads
Why Freedom, Not ROI, Is the Real Endgame of Running Ads
After taking a project from 0 to 1, thoughts on running ads remotely with Codex and Claude, the freedom affiliates chase, and what AI can't decide for you.
Facebook AdsFull English article
What Is the Facebook '$1 Ad Set' Method? AI Is Speeding It Up
A winning creative suddenly loses volume and more budget won't revive it. How the CBO $1 ad set method squeezes what's left, and how AI makes it faster.
AI ToolsFull English article
Vibe Coding an Offer Weighting System: No More Midnight Swaps
How I vibe-coded a Bayesian offer weighting system for my tracker: hourly reweighting, bailout checks, softmax weights and a shadow run at 90%+ agreement.
One-Person CompanyFull English article
How a One-Person Company Builds an AI-Native Workflow: 5 Tips
I moved my affiliate media buying onto an AI-native workflow and cut daily ad monitoring from 4 hours to 1. Five tips, from tool choice to a 5-layer structure.
ClickBox SeriesFull English article
Case Study: How This Facebook Ad Kept Running for 5 Months
Bin, a solo affiliate, kept 3 Facebook campaigns for Zeydoo interactive offers running for nearly 5 months at 62.27% ROI. Here is the framework behind it.
PlaybooksFull English article1.4k WeChat reads
What Is Brand Bidding? A Rite of Passage on Google Ads
What brand bidding (bidding on brand keywords) is, how it differs from listicles, when it counts as white hat, and why many small campaigns beat one big winner.
AI ToolsFull English article
Claude Design: 1,600+ Landing Page Combinations in 5 Minutes
A coupon Social Lander case: Claude Design produced 10 social viral mechanics, localized for 12 GEOs, and with colors and CTAs that's 1,600+ A/B test variants.
NotesFull English article1.6k WeChat reads
Our Community's First Offline Meetup at GTC Shenzhen
Our affiliate community's first offline dinner during GTC Shenzhen: who showed up, what we talked about, and why one meeting beats a thousand online chats.
PlaybooksFull English article2.4k WeChat reads
Email Marketing: A Real Passive Income Stream for Affiliates
Why an email list survives ad account bans, how affiliates pair pre-landers with automated sequences, which verticals fit, and the traps to avoid.
PlaybooksFull English article
eCom Listicles: The Most Beginner-Friendly Play I've Seen in 2026
Why eCom listicles are the most evergreen play for beginners in 2026: lower budget barriers, network templates, EPC-based bidding and product placement.
AI ToolsFull English article
Obsidian + Claudian: A Karpathy-Style Media Buying Knowledge Base
How I built an AI-maintained affiliate knowledge base with Obsidian + Claude Code, Karpathy-style: dozens of distilled notes across 10 categories in two weeks.
IndustryFull English article2.8k WeChat reads
Claude KYC Verification and Google's Back Button Hijacking Ban
Anthropic has started identity verification (KYC) for Claude users, and from June 15 Google treats Back Button Hijacking as spam. What both mean for affiliates.
NotesFull English article
Ten Years in Affiliate Marketing: To Those Still on the Road
Ten years in affiliate, from an internship at the end of 2015: a wasted $10 Facebook test, CPI to CPL, DSP, COD, Push, smartlinks, going solo, and AI coding.
PlaybooksFull English article
Why Your Campaigns Keep Crashing: The Opposite of What You Think
A campaign starts to pick up, we rush to add creatives, adjust bids, cut zones and swap offers, and it crashes. Over-optimizing is often the real cause.
Traffic SourcesFull English article
PropellerAds After All These Years: Why I Never Switched
Why PropellerAds has stayed my main Pop and Push traffic source since 2016: 15 billion daily impressions, automated zone optimization and more ad formats.
PlaybooksFull English article
10 Years of Media Buying: Where Real Passive Income Hides
Media buying income stops when the traffic stops. Lifetime commissions don't. How RollerAds' uncapped referral program works, and who else offers one.
Traffic SourcesFull English article
I Ran PropellerAds This Way, and the Results Surprised Me
Why direct-linking offers on PropellerAds with no tracker and no lander can beat the "standard" funnel when you are testing on a small budget.
One-Person CompanyFull English article6k WeChat reads
Claude Cowork: My First Digital Employee Does My Company's Books
Claude Cowork as my digital employee: it checked 30 hand-entered transactions in my Hong Kong company books, fixed errors and prepped audit files in 30 minutes.
AI ToolsFull English article
OpenClaw + Feishu Bitable: My Low-Cost Ad Spy Creative Library
OpenClaw walks a Facebook Ad Library landing page's redirect chain and logs it to Feishu Bitable: 100+ advertisers in, far cheaper than a $149/month spy tool.
AI ToolsFull English article
ProPush Constructor: DIY Facebook Postbacks with Claude Code
How I used Claude Code to build an Accumulator that merges ProPush Constructor's 7-9 postbacks per click into one clean Lead signal for Facebook.
PlaybooksFull English article1.2k WeChat reads
Affiliate Marketing in 2026: How It Makes Money, in 3 Minutes
Affiliate marketing in plain words: the roles in the chain, CPA/CPS/CPL, what each stage looks like, the $1,000-$5,000 you need to start, and 3 beginner traps.
AI ToolsFull English article
WeChat Clawbot and Claude Channels: When the Platforms Step In
WeChat added an OpenClaw plugin days after Claude Code Channels added official Telegram and Discord support. What it signals, and if you still need OpenClaw.
IndustryFull English article
Token Has Changed: From Ad Tracking Parameter to AI Compute Unit
Token used to be the tracking parameter tying Traffic Source, Tracker and network together. Now it's the unit AI is priced in. Why direction beats compute.
AI ToolsFull English article
Meta Banned OpenClaw, but I Plugged It into My Ad Account
Meta told staff not to install OpenClaw. Advertisers use the Marketing API, so I connected OpenClaw to my Facebook ad account; here's what it can do so far.
AI ToolsFull English article4.9k WeChat reads
OpenClaw $100 Ad Test Update: It Made Money, More Than Expected
Follow-up to my OpenClaw $100 ad test: $339 spent, $457 back, plus four lessons on layered permissions, rule loops and actionable AI reports.
AI ToolsFull English article
I Spend RMB 2,000 a Month on AI Tools. Is It Worth It?
My AI stack: ChatGPT Plus, Claude Max, Gemini Pro, Kimi Code, AWS Lightsail and Vercel, RMB 2,000+ a month. Why it saves me 2-3 hours a day and pays off.
AI ToolsFull English article1.1k WeChat reads
OpenClaw: I Gave It $100 to Run Ads and It Taught Me a Lesson
I gave OpenClaw my PropellerAds API key, two Bemob tracking links and a $100 budget, then only watched: what it fixed, how it bought, what it taught me.
AI ToolsFull English article1.3k WeChat reads
Clawdbot (Moltbot): Its Real Value for Affiliate Ad Automation
Clawdbot (now Moltbot) got 9,000 GitHub stars in a day. What it can do for media buyers: alerts, daily reports, rule execution, and why security holds it back.
One-Person CompanyFull English article
Hong Kong Company vs. UK Company: Affiliates vs. Indie Developers
Indie developers choose UK companies for fast Stripe approval and low cost; affiliates paid by wire into business accounts are better off in Hong Kong.
One-Person CompanyFull English article2k WeChat reads
Hong Kong: The Place Every Affiliate Marketer Passes Through
Why every affiliate marketer ends up in Hong Kong sooner or later: getting paid, opening a Hong Kong company, and why not the UK or US. Plus a HK$173 lunch.
AI ToolsFull English article1.3k WeChat reads
Vercel Agent Skills Take Ad Automation One Step Further
Vercel's Skills.sh packages know-how for AI agents. I installed 23 marketing skills into my Adv ad automation system so the Agent can judge, not just execute.
AI ToolsFull English article2.8k WeChat reads
I Built an Adv Ad Automation System with Claude Code in 3 Days
How I used Claude Code to build, in 3 days, an Advertizer ad automation system that keeps QS above 80%, reads trend reports and auto-creates Bemob links.
IndustryFull English article1.3k WeChat reads
2025 Year in Review: AI + Affiliate + One-Person Company = 2026?
My 2025 year in review: AI moving into every step of affiliate work, the rise of the one-person company, and why the two together are my read on 2026.
Facebook AdsFull English article1k WeChat reads
Facebook × Zeydoo Basic Playbook, Part 1: Four Setup Essentials
Part 1 of running Zeydoo CPL offers on Facebook: ad accounts, BeMob vs Skro as tracker, warming up a Page at about $5 a day, and offer URL, postback and flow.
NotesFull English article
Six Years with Zeydoo: A Christmas Gift from an Old Friend
Six years with the Zeydoo affiliate network: from CPI offers in 2020 to Survey CPL and today's Fix CPL plus Revshare model, twice-weekly payouts and deductions.
PlaybooksFull English article2k WeChat reads
ProPush Constructor: Build Your Own Survey Lander for Arbitrage
ProPush Constructor lets you build and self-host survey and Clickbox landers for arbitrage: up to 7 pages per project, with more freedom than Zeydoo Survey.
Buying ToolsFull English article1.2k WeChat reads
AdsPower Antidetect Browser: My Must-Have Tool for TikTok Ads
How I set up AdsPower, the antidetect browser that keeps my TikTok ad accounts stable: profile, proxy, fingerprint and launch. Two profiles are free.
IndustryFull English article1k WeChat reads
Why You Should Get into Media Buying Early: The Advertizer Lesson
Why get into media buying early? The Advertizer (Monetizer) story: banned in 2018, an open window in 2019, then registration closed and accounts became scarce.
Facebook AdsFull English article2.8k WeChat reads
Meta Andromeda Algorithm 2026: Summary 1.0 (Part 1)
Meta's Andromeda update pushes ads toward creative-driven, AI-matched delivery. My summary 1.0: Testing, Retargeting and Scaling campaigns, ad copy and Bid Cap.
IndustryFull English article
Black Friday for Affiliates: Are You Still Looking Forward to It?
Black Friday for an affiliate: party or exam? Why SaaS deals matter less than traffic costs, and how I test creatives weeks early and scale after the peak.
Buying ToolsFull English article
Cloudflare 500 Outage: Is Your Affiliate Campaign Data OK?
Two outages, one month: AWS us-east-1 delayed my BeMob postbacks and dented account weight; Cloudflare Pages 500 errors burned budget on unreachable landers.
IndustryFull English article1.8k WeChat reads
AI Media Buying: What to Do When Algorithms Learn to Buy Traffic
AI won't replace media buyers; it's leverage. Three workflows I use daily: automated creatives and reports, 10-15 second AI video ads, and PWA games.
NotesFull English article
1,700+ Days Without an Update: Where I've Been and When I'm Back
After 4 years, 8 months and 11 days of silence, what filled those 1,700 days: still in Affiliate, two kids, embracing AI, and an industry that keeps changing.
IndustryFull English article
How Chrome 64's Ad Blocking Affects Pop Ads and Media Buyers
Google shipped Chrome 64 in early February 2018, blocking abusive pop-up ads. What the update means for pop-up and pop-under ads and media buyers who run them.
AI ToolsSummary · Chinese original1.3k WeChat reads
My Two-Year-Old Claude Account Got Banned
My two-year-old Claude account was banned on the last day of the holiday. What the email said, the refund, and the habit I'm keeping now: exporting my data every week.
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