TopRanked.io Weekly Affiliate Digest: What’s Hot in Affiliate Marketing [Legend Affiliates Program]

The early to mid-naughts were a legendary time.

Don’t believe me.

I present to you exhibit A.

Still don’t believe me?

Alright. Here’s exhibit B.

Topranked.io Affiliate Program of the Week — Legend Affiliates Program

Founded way back in 2004, this week’s top-rated affiliate program is none other than the Lenen-wait for it-d affiliates program.

The Legend Affiliates Program.

Wanna know more about the Legend Affiliates Program? (Trust me, if the phrase “50% rev share” sounds good to you, then you definitely do wanna know more.)

Then read on.

Legend Affiliates Program — The Product

Alright, so before we get the that juicy 50% rev share thing I promised before, first we’re gonna tick off the basics — the Legend Affiliates Program product.

Now, instead of telling you directly what the Legend Affiliates Program product is, I’m gonna do things a little differently this week.

I’m gonna let you guess. Here’s a hint:

Casino	Welcome Offers	Redeemable	Additional Offers
CasinoMax.com	325% up to $3,250	3x	100% up to $1,000 (Other Games Offer)
CherryJackpot.com	400% Bonus	2x	Up to $8,000 Free
Roaring21.com	400% Bonus + 100 Free Spins on Lucky 6	2x	Up to $8,000 Free
Spinfinity.casino	300% up to $9,000	3x	None
SlotsRoom.com	$10,000 Bonus + 200 Free Spins	5x	None
SlotsNinja.com	350% + 30 Extra Spins	4x	None

That there, my fellow affiliates, is a table of each of the brands you can promote in the Legend Affiliates Program.

And, just in case you skipped over it and still have no idea what you’ll actually be promoting in the Legend Affiliates Program, here it is in an easier-to-digest format:

CASINOS!

So now you know what the Legend Affiliates Program is all about, let’s get you up to speed with the bit you really care about.

Legend Affiliates Program — The Commissions

Just as I promised in the intro, if you join the Legend Affiliates Program today, you’ll be one step closer to earning yourself a nice little 50% rev share commission.

Now, of course, joining the Legend Affiliates Program is just step one. You’re also gonna have to take the second step — promote and drive traffic — if you want the Legend Affiliate Program to pay you that commission.

But you were going to do that anyway, weren’t you!

Of course, if you’ve been around iGaming for more than a day, then you’re probably already asking what strings the Legend Affiliate Program attaches to that 50% commission.

After all, 50% for a new affiliate is, quite frankly, ridiculously huge.

So yes, you’d be right. The Legend Affiliate Program does attach a string to that 50% offer — you’re only getting it for your first two moths.

But hey, that’s already double what most other programs will offer you as a welcome bonus. And, the best part is that after your first couple of months with the Legend Affiliate Program are over, the bottom’s not gonna fall out of your commissions.

Here’s what you can expect from the Legend Affiliate Program over the long term. 

Rev Share %	Revenue Range
25%	$0 – $10,000
30%	$10,001 – $20,000
35%	$20,001 – $30,000
40%	$30,001 – $45,000
45%	$45,001+

Oh, and if that wasn’t enough, the Legend Affiliates Program is one of the few around that have no negative carry.

I repeat, the Legend Affiliates Program has no negative carry.

Nice.

Legend Affiliates Program — Next Steps

Let’s be honest here — how many affiliate programs can match the Legend Affiliates Program offer of 50% rev share for your first 2 months?

If you don’t know the answer, go take a look at our iGaming affiliate program rankings. You’ll soon see the answer is not many.

So if you know what’s good for you, then go sign up for the Legend Affiliates Program here.

You can’t lose.

Affiliate News Takeaways — Big Tech Wants to Have its Cake and Eat it Too

This week, something huge happened.

Something so huge that it could fundamentally change the entire internet as we know it.

But before I get to what it is, I want to start with a popular saying that pretty much sums up the entire situation.

That saying goes a little like this:

“You can’t have your cake and eat it too.”

Anyway, now the awkward shoehorning of a distasteful GIF is complete, let’s get to the news.

TikTok must face lawsuit over 10-year-old girl's death, US appeals court rules https://t.co/znXZtmw0Km

— Nate Raymond (@nateraymond) August 28, 2024

Long story short, someone’s kid does a “blackout challenge” they saw on TikTok.

Said kid dies.

The kid’s parents sue TikTok.

TikTok claims case should be dismissed because Section 230 shields TikTok from liability.

Third Circuit said, “Nah, not this time, buddy”.

Now TikTok must face the music.

So, what’s so significant about this? Why is this going to change the internet as we know it?

And what the heck has this got to do with eating cake and having it too?

To get there, we’re going to have to pull a few pieces together. So let’s just start with the three things at the core of this whole thing.

1. The First Amendment
2. Section 230
3. Moody v. NetChoice, LLC

Now, I’m gonna take a wild guess and assume you’re already familiar with the first item on that list.

As for the second item — Section 230 — that, in a nutshell, is the law that says online platforms can’t be held liable for content posted by third parties. Even if the platform makes editorial decisions when presenting that content (i.e., they do content moderation), they’re not liable.

It came about because, at the time, Congress thought that holding platforms accountable for third-party content would have a chilling effect on free speech on the internet. Thus, they figured, if they made platforms immune, the internet would develop as a bastion of free speech.

Funny how things work out…

Anyway, as for the third item on the list, that’s a case that was just decided by the Supreme Court earlier this year.

We’ll get to the actual decision in a minute. But first, here are the parties involved.

Moody: Ashley Moody, the Florida state Attorney General.

NetChoice: A giant “trade association” of the usual Big Tech names. (You know the ones… Google, Meta, Snap… even TikTok was a member until political pressure changed that a few months ago.)

Now, as for why Meta and friends were duking it out with Florida’s AG in the Supreme Court, that’s simple.

It was all about free speech. Like good old First Amendment free speech.

To cut a long story short, Texas and Florida wanted to restrict Big Tech’s ability to censor content. Those bills were Texas’s HB20, and Florida’s SB7072

Naturally, Big Tech didn’t like this. So it chucked a hissy fit in the most American way possible — by whinging to the courts that its First Amendment rights were being trampled on.

The case got to the Supreme Court, and Big Tech won.

So yay, big tech can keep on moderating us without any real constraints… because #FreeSpeech.

Anyway, as for the decision, the general gist of it was that “laws curtailing… editorial choices must meet the First Amendment’s requirements”.

In other words, Big Tech’s moderation and curation of content is an editorial action and thus constitutes Big Tech’s own first-party speech. Thus, curtailing Big Tech’s right to freely express itself by limiting its ability to moderate/curate certain types of content is a violation of it’s constitutionally-protected free speech rights.

Now, if you haven’t already guessed it, this left at least a few Federal Circuit Court judges scratching their heads.

They saw a conflict here that goes a little like this:

• On one hand, whenever Big Tech wants to excuse itself from liability for anything, it just points a finger at Section 230 and says “Our editorial decisions aren’t our speech because we’re just presenting third-party content, so suck on that, we’re immune.”
• But on the other hand, when it suits Big Tech’s agenda, it also says, “Actually, our editorial decisions are our first-party speech, and thus we can do whatever the f*** we want because #FirstAmendment.”

In short, how can you simultaneously claim that something is both third-party and first-party speech?

Or, said another way, you can’t have your cake and eat it to.

And that’s basically what leads us to the TikTok decision — the decision that could reshape the internet as we know it, plunging us back into the algorithmic dark ages when the best we had was a choice between alphabetical and chronological order.

Well, okay. Maybe it won’t be that drastic. But we’ll get to that later.

For now, here’s how the ruling went down:

• Parents sued TikTok because its “for you” page promoted the “blackout challenge” to their kid.
• TikTok said, “Sorry bro, the for you page is just third-party content, so we get Section 230 protection.”
• Judges were all like, “Err, didn’t you guys just argue in the Supreme Court that curating content was your own first-party speech?”
• TikTok was like “Yeah, but YOLO, Section 230.”
• Judges then said, “Nah brah, we’re not buying this “it’s just third-party content” defense anymore.”
• TikTok cried.

Now, to see why this is such a major decision, you first have to understand that, up until now, Section 230 has largely been a blanket protection that lets Big Tech do whatever it wants. No matter what they did — algorithms, moderation, manual boosting — it was still not their content, so no liability.

Basically, you could make an algorithm that boosted every post that contained the word “suicide” in combination with either “DIY”, “how to”, or “method”, and when kids started killing themselves on mass, you could just point to Section 230 and say “Yeah, but it’s not our content”.

Thus, every social media platform has been free to basically do whatever it wants, comforted by the belief that it could never be held liable.

Now, of course, TikTok will presumably challenge the decision. That could mean either they request an en banc review in the next couple of weeks. Or they might launch a full-blown Supreme Court appeal.

And, there’s a chance this might work.

Or, at least, it could work if what some people are saying is halfway true. E.g.: Technology & Marketing Blog says it’s “Bonkers”, while TechDirt says it “Defies Logic”.

But then again, even if these pundits are right, there is another important thing.

Politics.

To start with, law is ultimately political and judges are biased. It’s why we have theories about judicial activism. And it’s why people care about the ideological leanings of Supreme Court justices.

And if that doesn’t sound plausible — if you still truly think the law and the courts stand as some sort of impartial bastian of where pure rationality always wins, how exactly did we end up in a world where there was Roe v. Wade, then Dobbs v. Jackson?

Second, as much as it might defy the laws of the universe, there are some issues that unite Team Red and Team Blue. The desire to reform or outright abolish Section 230 is one of those issues.

The Third U.S. Circuit Court made the right call in this case against TikTok. 

Algorithms should not be protected under Section 230.

My statement:https://t.co/Nv34VIhjec pic.twitter.com/07zfiTV2he

— Senator Marco Rubio (@SenMarcoRubio) August 30, 2024

Of course, there’s always the chance for Team Red to do a 180 if Big Tech pulls off a scare campaign and kids think their ability to use the internet is under threat. If that happens, don’t be surprised if everyone’s favorite demagogue does another 180.

But, if they don’t, or if they do and this ruling sticks, expect platforms to majorly change how they recommend content.

Now, how that would reshape the internet is beyond me.

The obvious path forward would just be that platforms get a whole lot more conservative with what they allow on their platforms and drastically tighten up on content moderation.

As for my best guess, that would be that they simply revert back to less “curated” methods of recommendation. You know, like just relying on simpler metrics like volume and whatnot, rather than stacking up mysterious black boxes and manually pulling on various “heating” levers.

If they did that, presumably they’d have a pretty good case to make that they’re acting in line with the original intentions of Section 230.

Takeaway

There’s not much to say about this now other than keep an eye out.

The only sure thing is that, if this ruling sticks, there’s going to be a major league shakeup in how platforms promote content. I.e., the “algo” is gonna change big time.

On the plus side, if this happens and you’re aware of what’s going on, that transition period is going to be a killer time to make some major bank. After all, if you’ve already anticipated how Big Tech’s gonna shake things up while everyone’s stuck in the old days, you’re already on track to getting a massive number of eyeballs on your content.

Just make sure you’re ready to monetize that content when that happens, though.

And yeah, even if that 50% rev share offer has already expired by that time, you’re still gonna be hard-pressed to beat the Legend Affiliates Program.

Closing Thought

Ask almost anyone, and they’ll tell you that disruption and change are good.

Especially if they’re in Big Tech — the industry of disruption.

Of course, what none of these “change is good” promoters will tell you is that deep down, they really truly hate it.

If you don’t believe me, scroll up and read the news.

Does that sound like the sort of disruption that’ll cause major change?

Yep, it does.

Does it sound like something “good” if you’re in Big Tech?

No, it doesn’t.

In other words, change is just like anything else in life.

Sometimes it’s for the better.

Sometimes, it’s for the worst.

The real trick is figuring out when it’s good, and when it’s bad, and not getting led down the path of oversimplified universal rules.

So here’s a question for you.

Do you think a 50% Rev Share deal is a good change for you?

If you’re already getting more than this, then the answer is no — change is bad.

But, if you’re not, then the answer is simple — go change your affiliate program for the better by joining the Legend Affiliates Program.

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