Become an Affiliate
Making great work and selling great work require different skills
Creating a good product takes enormous effort.
An author may spend months or years writing a book. A musician may spend months writing, recording, mixing, and producing an album. A comedian may spend years developing material before recording a special.
After the work is finished, they still have to sell it.
Creators already give up meaningful portions of their sales to retailers and marketplaces, and many spend heavily on platforms like Meta to reach new customers.
They are already paying for distribution, attention, and sales.
Curios gives them another option: pay you.
If you can help them reach the right audience and generate a sale, they can share a meaningful percentage of that sale with you.
Creators can pay you to become part of their sales engine
They choose what they are willing to pay for a sale. You choose whether the opportunity makes sense for you. If your work generates the purchase, you earn the reward.
Not looking to be an affiliate but looking to get your content in this affiliate catalog? Head to the Curios Studio.
Why can a creator afford to give you 20%, 25%, or 30% of a sale?
Curios is a direct sales platform. When a creator sells directly, they start with 100% of the direct sale before choosing an affiliate reward. That creates room for the creator to decide how much a new customer is worth to them.
Suppose an author has a $30 audiobook. They could try to generate the sale themselves. They could spend money advertising it. They could also tell affiliates: "If you bring me the customer, I will give you 30%."
If an affiliate generates that $30 purchase, they earn $9. The author made a sale and found a new customer. The creator decided that giving up $9 was worthwhile because the affiliate created the sale.
That is why these rewards can be much larger than affiliate programs built around very thin retail margins.
How the Curios Affiliate Program works
Affiliate attribution can last up to 30 days
When someone clicks your affiliate link, Curios uses affiliate attribution to determine whether later qualifying purchases should be credited to you. The attribution window can last up to 30 days.
Qualifying additional purchases from that buyer that also carry affiliate rewards may generate commissions during the attribution period.
Cookie persistence can vary based on browser settings, privacy controls, cookie deletion, and other technical factors.
What if a creator removes the product after you start promoting it?
Creators can opt into or out of the affiliate program. Curios provides a 30-day carryover for affiliates who created a link while the product was eligible.
If you created your link while the product was opted in, that link stays eligible for 30 days from the day you created it, even if the creator opts out in the meantime.
See exactly what your promotions are producing
Affiliates receive reporting around clicks, conversions, sales, and commissions, so you can tell which recommendations are working.
Automatic weekly payouts
Affiliates can enter their banking information and receive automatic weekly payouts for eligible commissions.
Affiliates can also request payouts as needed, subject to applicable payout requirements and availability.
Become an AffiliateWho can become a Curios affiliate?
Anyone. The Curios Affiliate Program is permissionless, so you do not need a creator to invite you. It can be especially useful for people whose audiences already look to them for recommendations. A highly relevant audience can be valuable even when it is relatively small.