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If I say the word evolution, chances are, the first thing you imagine is some sort of knuckle-dragger-cum-biped poster like this.

But this week, I want you to picture a different sort of evolution. An evolution that could actually make you some serious affiliate dollars.

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Let’s take a closer look.

TopRanked.io Affiliate Program of the Week — 1xBet Affiliates Review

Now, obviously 1xBet alone ain’t gonna make you much money if you know nothing about sports.

But if you’re here, then I’m going to assume you know something about affiliate marketing.

And if you do, then there’s a good chance that 1xBet affiliates will make you that money.

Here’s why we love them.

1xBet Affiliates — The Product

In case you don’t recognize the name yet, here’s a quick overview.

• The flagship product behind 1xBet Affiliates is, of course, their stellar, world-famous sportsbook.
• You can also promote a really solid casino offering with 1xBet Affiliates.

Now, as for why you should chose 1xBet Affiliates over the thousand and one other sportsbooks, here’s one good reason.

When you sign up for 1xBet Affiliates, you get instant access to the massive brand power 1xBet Affiliates has to offer.

And that can mean BIG things when it comes to actually converting people via your 1xBet Affiliates links.

Just to give you some idea of the power 1xBet Affiliates has when it comes to its brand, go do a quick search for their sponsorships.

Chances are, you’ll probably see a bunch of stuff like this.

Yep. That’s right.

When you sign up with 1xBet Affiliates, you’re getting access to one of the biggest names in the game.

Oh, also (and this is really important) — if you want a sportsbook with a near-global reach and very few geo restrictions, then 1xBet Affiliates is pretty much the only game in town.

Now let’s see why else should you sign up with 1xBet Affiliates.

1xBet Affiliates — The Commissions

I’ll keep this bit short.

1xBet Affiliates starts new affiliates off on a 25% rev share deal.

And from there, new 1xBet Affiliates can work their way up the ranks to higher rev share tiers (40% isn’t out of the question). Or, you can even ask your 1xBet Affiliates manager nicely and you might get a CPA/hybrid deal.

Now, admittedly, the 1xBet Affiliates commissions aren’t the absolute highest commissions out there. There are some programs that go slightly higher.

But ask yourself this — do any of these programs offer anywhere near the benefits you get with 1xBet Affiliates?

Do they have the 1xBet Affiliates brand power?

Do they have the global reach that 1xBet Affiliates has?

Chances are, probably not.

1xBet Affiliates — Next Steps

Look, when it comes to affiliate programs, 1xBet Affiliates is pretty hard to beat. The combination of brand power, global reach, and near industry leading commissions makes 1xBet Affiliates very hard to ignore.

Now, maybe that’s not enough for you. Maybe you want more details on 1xBet Affiliates first. So if this is you, then why not take a minute to checkout TopRanked.io for our full 1xBet Affiliates Program Review.

As for those of you who know a good thing when you see it, go sign up for 1xBet Affiliates right here.

Affiliate News Takeaways

This week, Aussies have something to celebrate. So, I’m sure we can count on plenty of off-label usage of shoes this week. (And maybe a few new signups coming via your 1xBet Affiliates links… if you read on.)

So what are they celebrating?

Well, that would be this news, which dropped on Tuesday:

SBS Deal Gives Australian Viewers First Live, Free-To-Air Access to MLS Matches

Now, there’s a couple of acronyms there that might be unfamiliar to some of you.

Don’t know what an acronym is? This should help.

And as for the unfamiliar acronyms from before — SBS and MLS — the first is an Aussie TV station. The second is “Major League Soccer”.

You know, the American version of the English Premier League.

Anyway, to be completely honest, when I first read this news, I was kinda like, “meh, so what!?”

If you don’t know why I had this reaction, then maybe this headline from late last year might give you a hint:

MLS Viewership Is Down and It’s a Serious Problem

Long story short, the MLS closed out the last season with some seriously disappointing viewership numbers.

Like seriously disappointing.

For reference, the 2022 final had 2.2 million US viewers. Then in 2023, the championship game had an audience of 890k viewers.

And last year, in 2024, that dropped again to 468k viewers.

That’s literally the lowest viewership it’s ever had in almost 20 years of broadcast history.

That might even be worse than CNN.

Anyway, whether that’s worse than CNN or not is beside the point.

The real point here was that the MLS seemed like it was dying fast, based on its broadcast viewership numbers.

But now it’s potentially expanding, I thought why not give it a second chance? 

And that landed me on this article from a couple of weeks ago:

Why MLS Teams Are Worth Billions Despite Losing Millions

Now, that articles kinda long, and there’s probably way to many details for me to give you a tl;dr version. But here are a few key points:

• In 2022, MLS entered an exclusive streaming agreement with Apple TV’s “MLS Season Pass”. Fox and Co did get to air some games, but they were pretty limited. Presumably, that hurt viewership numbers.
• There have been scheduling conflicts (i.e., competition). For instance, the SEC Championship Game aired at the same time as last year’s MLS final.
• Despite broadcast/streaming not living up to expectations, MLS claims everything else is up.
• 2024 saw record ticket sales. That’s both in terms of face value, and attendance (+12% compared to the 2023 season for an average attendance of 94% of capacity, along with a record 213 sold-out matches).
• The league claims it grew faster on social media than any other league in men’s North America. (+26% on TikTok, +21% on YouTube, +10% on Instagram, and +150% YouTube views).
• And let’s not forget that team valuations are skyrocketing.

Now, on that last point, there are two possible explanations here.

The first is that maybe investors see something in the MLS that the average American doesn’t.

That’s always a possibility.

But then, there’s also the other explanation — most assets have skyrocketed over the last few years, as you would expect when the Fed suddenly helicoptered trillions of Covid dollars into the economy…

Anyway, however you want to explain team valuations — whether it be that investors see something special, or whether it just be a simple game of investor hot potato — the rest of the stats are hard to ignore.

It’s also hard to ignore the impact that sticking most of the league’s games behind an Apple TV+ “MLS Season Pass” paywall would’ve had. I know soccer’s a big deal and all for some, but somehow I don’t think the average US soccer fan is quite at the level of fanaticism needed to motivate them to fork out for the $99.99 price tag.

Now, sure. The MLS championship game was broadcast for free. But if you account for the dwindling interest that goes hand in hand with people not being able to watch the rest of the season, along with the competition from other major events airing at the same time, maybe the dwindling viewership numbers aren’t a sign of certain death.

And that’s where we get to some good news — in 2024, a full 210 matches will be aired/streamed without a paywall. Plus, the league’s looking to change up its schedule a little — apparently a Sunday night broadcast is “on the cards”.

And as if that wasn’t enough, there’s also gonna be an MLS documentary from the makers of Netflix’s Formula 1: Drive To Survive.

If you don’t know how big of a deal that is, here’s what happened in the wake of DTS.

• Before DTS, average per race viewership was 538k.
• After DTS’s first season, average per race viewers rose to 672k.
• By 2022, average per race viewers had skyrocketed to 1.21 million.

And here’s a nice chart that spells out the above in a slightly different way.

Yep, just over half of the F1’s US audience is there because DTS helped them get interested.

In fact, the effect has been so big that it’s apparently set off a bit of a fan rivalry within the sport.

Basically, what I’m trying to say here is that, if the DTS team can pull off the same thing for MLS, there’s a chance we could see a similar effect on MLS.

But DTS isn’t the only tailwind that could help boost MLS.

For starters, you’ve got the 2026 World Cup, which will see the US host the majority of the matches… and maybe an even bigger majority if Trump manages to buy Canada before then.

And then, looking even further ahead, there’re also some rumblings from another top-tier soccer league looking to launch in the US. Now, that won’t happen until 2027, so the details aren’t 100% clear yet. But what we do know is that it’ll be called United Soccer League (USL), and it’ll be competing directly with MLS as an alternative division one.

Now, I have no idea how it’s even possible to have two division ones. It sounds like the sort of brain fart the participation trophy generation would have.

Anyway, putting aside impossible questions, it’s probably worth noting something here.

That is, the USL is intentionally aiming for a 2027 launch because they want to ride on the back of the World Cup wave. So presumably, I’m not alone in assuming the US hosting the World Cup will result in more US soccer fans.

In any case, there seems to be a lot of charitable explanations for MLS’s shortcomings combined with fortuitous tailwinds. So maybe we shoudn’t write it off just yet.

Takeaway

Alright, let’s recap a bit of what we’ve covered above.

• MLS was looking like a write off at the end of last season due to tanking viewership numbers.
• There might be some hope that it’ll pull off a turnaround.
• If not, then maybe it’ll get big in Australia now that there’s a free-to-air broadcast deal over there.

Now, of course, basically any predictions of MLS growing this year are still a bit up in the air. The season only just kicked off a few weeks ago, so it’s probably still a bit early to tell.

Unless you’re a fortune teller, that is…

But here’s something that’s maybe a little less “to be seen” — a lot of people had written off MLS after seeing reports of its tanking viewership.

I know I had. And so I presume a bunch of other affiliates had too.

That makes now the perfect moment to take a first (or second) look at MLS if you feel like taking a punt on what could be a big uptick. It might just be the perfect low competition moment — the perfect time to get ahead of all the Johnny-come-latelys that might crop up when Netflix’s DTS crew gets DTF with MLS.

And the best part here is that there are multiple ways you can go about capitalizing on this.

Now, obviously, there’s the Aussie market angle we opened with. This is the first time MLS has had a broadcast deal there, so you can probably count on at least some new fans getting hooked over there. But then again, there’s probably more headwinds than tailwinds there.

For starters, Aussies tend to be the sporting equivalents of a manic bipolar depressive.

Either they like their sports fast and violent.

Or the like sports that put them to sleep.

But still, given it’s a fresh market with very little competition right now, it could be worth a shot.

And then, I guess, there’s always the big one — the US market. There are a billion and one ways you can target US-based MLS fans. You know, post memes, do predictions, whatever — if they’re searching for it or clicking on it, then there’s always gonna be a chance to shove your links in front of them.

You could maybe even try something a little bit different. Like maybe target people looking for season passes, or tickets (remember, ticket sales are way up)… and then just force-feed them some other vaguely related but potentially interesting links.

You know, like links to a great sportsbook… kinda like those that you’ll be given once you sign up with 1xBet Affiliates.

Closing Thought

After that MLS story, I thought I had a great closing thought to give you all.

I thought I’d learn from my mistake (jumping to the conclusion that MLS was definitely dying), and share the learnings with you.

So I started as one always should — I went searching for other peoples’ quotes that I could rip off.

And I found plenty.

E.g.

And e.g. again. This time from Prince… err… I mean King Charles III.

But then I fell upon this one, and my perspective changed.

Hmmm… so maybe jumping to conclusions isn’t so bad after all.

But then, after I thought about it some more, I had a real lightbulb moment.

Why even bother jumping to conclusions at all?

Hear me out here.

These days, you can get well-formed, well-reasoned opinions on just about anything. Often, it’s not much more than a Google search away.

Sometimes, it’s even sitting right under your nose.

So maybe we don’t even have to play the balancing game, weighing the pros and cons of jumping to conclusions vs agonizing over the details.

Maybe all we have to do is take other people’s conclusions and run with them.

If you need a great example here, then just think about everything you’ve read above — conclusions already done for you.

And yes, that totally means you should be signing up for 1xBet Affiliates.

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