Affiliate Nerd Out

About Affiliate Nerd Out

Partnership marketing enthusiasts and affiliate marketing gurus are sharing their best strategies for affiliate program growth. New guests every week will come to discuss hot topics in the industry and what latest growth hacks working right now.

Publisher

Dustin Howes

Category

business · business · education

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

26 May 2023

Latest episode

6 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

1 of 191 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   6 Oct 2026

   How Brands Can Reach 3 Million Asian Shoppers With Buy&Ship - Jeff Unze

   3 million shoppers across Asia want to buy from US brands. Most can't, because those brands don't ship to them. What if you could reach them without changing a single thing about your shipping? I sat down with Jeff Unze, North American GM at Buy&Ship, to talk about how brands are doing exactly that. He also shares which product categories this audience goes after, and why it's not what you'd expect. 👉 Follow Affiliate Nerd Out for more publisher highlights and conversations on growing y...

2. 

   29 Sept 2026

   CJU 2026 Review: The Good, The Bad & The Rankings

   I sit down with Brian Blancho from TicketSmarter to break down everything that went down at CJU. We are talking about an honest, no-holds-barred review of the event, covering the good, the bad, and our official star rankings. If you are trying to figure out where to invest your budget and how to recruit affiliates in the performance marketing space, you can't sleep on live events. But is CJU actually worth the heavy price tag? Tune in to hear our raw take on the experience, the ROI, and what ...

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   22 Sept 2026

   Affiliate News: Conference Secrets, Q4 Prep & Webinar Takeaways

   It's go time for Q4. 🚨 If your Q4 plans aren't locked in yet, consider this your sign to finalize them this week. On this Real Talk Friday edition of Affiliate Nerd Out, Christen Evans (she/her) and I cover: 1/ Why I'm heading back to CJU after 10 years 2/ The question that made a 10-year industry vet walk away from me 3/ Affiliate leaderboards: motivating or discouraging? 4/ How a 30-minute webinar turned into 60 minutes and 1,000+ views 5/ The one person to follow if you want to know how ma...

Inside a recent episode

Is Affiliate the most defensible channel? with Tye DeGrange

Published 13 Dec 2023 · Transcript excerpt

[…] Much better protection in some ways. Is there risk with affiliate? Is there challenges in affiliate? Absolutely. But the other cool thing about affiliate is it's really, and it could be a really exciting trust mechanism because yes, you can work with influencers and I kind of view those as part of one large umbrella. And I think, you know, Google meta certainly have designed to kind of bring more of that into their ecosystem. TikToks actively done a really good job of that. But you can't exactly acquire trust through Google, just in a vacuum. You've got to do it through customer reviews and other mechanisms. […]

Who has been a guest on Affiliate Nerd Out

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Ethan Housen
• Michael Cole
• Joe Sanfilippo
• Ann Hand
• Nick Marchese

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Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

3 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

782 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 59 / 100

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Quality

86

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

81

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