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Reach the creators everyone else leaves behind.

Trust is the original conversion engine. Warmlink puts it to work — a recommendation economy that dramatically expands affiliate marketing by unleashing the long tail.

What We Are

Warmlink is a recommendation marketing network — AI-powered creator shops, trust-first audiences, performance-only economics. We operate as a sub-network publisher inside AWIN, CJ, ClickBank, Impact, Rakuten, and more.

One approval. Your current infrastructure. Your current commission rates. Nothing new to build or manage.

Customers → Creators → Warmlink → Affiliate Networks → Advertisers

The Problem You Already Have

On most affiliate networks, 80–90% of registered publishers never generate a single sale.4 Motivated. Unequipped. Unpaid.

The Activation Gap — 80-90% of publishers unequipped

Creators desperately need a monetization partner to automatically help them make sense of their sales opportunities and manage their shops — optimizing sales and income on their behalf. Nobody built the right system to do this. Warmlink did.

The Creator Opportunity

The long tail of creators represents one of the largest untapped commercial forces on the internet — and it's only growing.

YouTube alone has over 115 million channels, with approximately 60 million serious, active creators — and fewer than 60,000 of them have 1 million subscribers.5 Add TikTok, Instagram, X, Facebook, newsletters, and blogs, and the total addressable pool of non-mega creators exceeds 700 million worldwide.

We estimate these creators collectively generate approximately ~6.4 trillion views and impressions annually6 — content watched, trusted, and acted upon by audiences who buy, but generating zero affiliate revenue for the creators who earned that trust.

That's not a niche opportunity. That's a structural gap in the affiliate industry. In five years, as creator commerce matures and recommendation-first purchasing becomes the norm, the brands embedded in this ecosystem early will have an insurmountable advantage over those who waited.

77%

of shoppers act on personal recommendations1

~2×

micro-influencer conversion rate vs. macro2

3.8×

more engagement from niche-aligned creators3

The long tail is not underperforming. It's under-equipped. We equip it.

The Bigger Picture

Warmlink is tapping that latent reach — which means new sales and new customer awareness for you, at zero incremental cost.

And creators are just the start. There are 5.4 billion people online7 — every one of them recommending things to friends, family, and followers every day. We estimate each person influences at least 100 others.8 Warmlink is building the world trust graph to serve all of it — a global social commerce network where anyone can open a shop, earn from their recommendations, and build a referral network. Every participant a potential advocate for your brand.

How It Works

Warmlink's AI builds a curated affiliate shop for each creator in seconds — matched to their content, niche, and audience. Your offers surface to creators whose content ideally fits your brand, including many who don't know your affiliate program exists and will be delighted to find it.

Placement lives wherever creators reach their audience: channels, profiles, posts, reels, videos, newsletters, emails, and communities. The matches are contextual. The endorsements are real.

Creator reputation is everything to them — their career, their income, their relationship with every follower. They will not recommend what they don't believe in. That's precisely why their audiences buy. Warmlink is a positive proof network: brands that deserve recommendation get it. Brands that don't, don't. Our goal is never to disparage brands — only to surface the best matches.

How We Grow — And Why It Matters to You

A question every network partner asks: how will Warmlink scale?

The answer is a model no one else offers: zero customer acquisition cost, powered by a three-tier passive income network.

Every creator who joins Warmlink earns from their own shop. They also earn a revenue share when creators they refer open shops and earn — and again from the tier below that. This isn't recruitment — every dollar flows from real sales. But the income structure creates powerful, organic word-of-mouth momentum entirely funded by revenue share, not marketing spend.

No upfront CAC. No paid acquisition. Warmlink grows because creators tell other creators — because the compensation model makes that worth doing. Once launched and word spreads, we expect rapid network expansion. No platform in this space offers this level of income incentive to fuel its own growth.

Shops Monthly views Sales

For you, this means the network reaching your affiliate program compounds automatically — more creators, more niches, more reach — without additional effort or cost on your side.

Brand Safety & Compliance

The Risk of Non-Participation

Creators in your product category will be building shops and recommending brands to audiences that trust them completely. First placements become the default recommendation.

If you don't participate, we can't recommend your brand.

The risk isn't approving Warmlink. The risk is watching the recommendation economy grow without you.

You're Invited!

We're launching our MVP in April 2026. We're inviting forward-thinking brands to be early — to be part of building something big, and to be present in recommendation marketing from the start.

What early approval gets you

First-mover placement as the network launches · Embedded presence before competitors know it exists · A direct line to the founding team

What it costs

One approval. A few minutes. No investment.

See it

Sample creator shops at warmlink.io

Get in Touch

Who's Building This

Folks who are passionate about generating more trust and prosperity in the world — and who helped build the internet's commercial infrastructure to do it.

Ted Cohn, Founder & CEO

Co-invented search advertising at WebCrawler/Excite · Apple & NeXT engineering under Steve Jobs · Principal Engineer on the original Barnes & Noble Nook · 10 patents across search, mobile, and consumer products

Laurent DeSegur

AI and data platform executive at Amazon, Walmart, PayPal, Netflix, and JPMorgan Chase · Distributed systems at scale serving hundreds of millions of users · Fraud prevention, AML controls, and secure-by-design architecture · Speaker at AWS re:Invent and France AI

Traditional Affiliate Influencer Campaign Warmlink
Cost structurePerformance-onlyRetainer + feesPerformance-only
Fraud protectionNetwork layerMinimalDouble layer
Long tail activationNoneNoneCore purpose
Creator discoveryManualManual/agencyAI-matched
Brand safetyVariableVariableBuilt-in
Network growthStaticCampaign-basedSelf-compounding
Time to approveMinutesWeeksMinutes

warmlink.io · partners@warmlink.io · MVP Launch April 2026

For affiliate managers on AWIN, CJ, ClickBank, Impact, Rakuten, and more

Sources
  1. 1 Consumer Trust in Influencers Statistics — Amra & Elma
  2. 2 150+ Influencer Marketing Statistics 2025 — Zebracat
  3. 3 Micro-Influencers Effectiveness in Niche Markets — Research and Metric
  4. 4 Managing Your Long Tail Affiliate Strategy — ThoughtMix
  5. 5 How Many YouTube Channels Are There in 2025? — Awesome Creator Academy · YouTube Channel Statistics — Photutorial
  6. 6 Warmlink internal estimate. Based on publicly reported active creator counts across YouTube (~60M), TikTok (~100M), Instagram (~200M), Facebook (~200M), X (~100M), and newsletters/blogs (~50M). Conservative average monthly views/impressions per non-mega creator applied per platform.
  7. 7 Digital 2025 Global Overview — We Are Social / DataReportal
  8. 8 Warmlink internal estimate. Based on 5.4 billion global social media users and an assumed average sphere of influence of 100 people per person.