Playbooks 25

From landers and A/B testing to arbitrage and vertical-specific playbooks.

Articles are written in Chinese. Titles and summaries are translated; each article page links to the full Chinese original.

PlaybooksLatest · 2026.08.15

MVAS: An Evergreen Vertical, So Why Do Beginners Always Lose Money?

Anyone in our industry has heard the name MVAS at some point.

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A Hot Traffic Arbitrage Project I Got Working in One Month

Since I resumed writing my WeChat Official Account last year, advertisers have steadily reached out about collaborations. The main topic, though, is ProPush Constructor, the traffic arbitrage project I took from 0 to 1, and its new built-in AI Assistant that generates landers without using your own AI tokens.

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Brand Bidding: A Rite of Passage on Google Ads

Last month I wrote about eCom Listicles; today it's the other path most affiliates on Google Ads have tried: Brand Bidding.

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Email Marketing: One of the Real Passive Income Streams in Affiliate

When I mentioned Lifetime Commission as a form of passive income a while back, many people running offers were interested.

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eCom Listicles: The Most Beginner-Friendly Play I've Seen in 2026

A question several newcomers have asked me lately: I hear Pop makes it easy to lose money and hard to win, so what else suits beginners?

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Why Your Campaigns Keep Crashing: Maybe the Opposite of What You Think

Every media buyer has lived this: a campaign starts to pick up, so we rush to add creatives, adjust bids, add targeting, cut zones and swap offers, and then it crashes.

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10 Years into Media Buying, I Found Where Real Passive Income Hides

Media buying has always had one pain point: when the traffic stops, the income stops with it.

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Still Don't Know Affiliate in 2026? How It Makes Money, in 3 Minutes

Last week a friend who runs an independent e-commerce site asked me what this Affiliate thing I talk about every day actually is, and whether it's the same as Taobao affiliate marketing.

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Build Your Own Survey Lander: An Arbitrage Play

ProPush recently launched a new tool, Constructor: essentially a customizable arbitrage page builder that gives you far more freedom than Zeydoo Survey itself, and plays differently too.

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A Daily-Payout Affiliate Network I Recommend + Double 12 Perks

For Double 12, here are a few genuine perks (no strings attached) that I think will help newcomers and some friends.

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Dating Offers: The Basics (Part 1)

This one is about dating offers. Why? I promised a few WeChat Official Account followers I'd cover it when I had time, and I hope it helps.

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A Money-Making Campaign on Autopilot in Two Days: AI Optimization

'AI optimization' here means a traffic source's Smart eCPA: set an achievable eCPA target, fund it, and the machine optimizes for you. Traffic sources have offered smart optimization since 2015, yet few people around me use it (Facebook aside), so I test it on Zeropark.

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Affiliate Networks vs. Direct Advertisers: Which Suits You?

It opens with a tiered discount on my '2018 Affiliate Media Buy' course, then weighs affiliate networks (fast payouts, beginner-friendly, plenty of offers, but lower payouts, extra redirects and shaved conversions) against working directly with advertisers.