For brand & DTC affiliate programs

Stop competing for the same 200 coupon sites. Recruit the niche publishers your product was made for.

For a single outdoor-gear program, a full run can surface an estimated ~28,000 niche content publishers whose audience matches your product — each ICP-screened with per-signal confidence scores. Every brand in your category recruits from the same short list of coupon and cashback sites. Full-web discovery over 120M+ classified domains finds the content publishers nobody in your program has ever contacted.

~28,000
niche content publishers for one outdoor-gear program, from a full run (estimate)
~740,000
domains in the outdoor & adventure category (estimate)
120M+
classified domains as the source
500
real qualified domains delivered free in your pilot

See the exact output for your category

We publish 30 free sample reports across consumer verticals — each showing the full signal transcript, ICP badges, and confidence scores you would receive per publisher, built from real screening runs with domains withheld for confidentiality.

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The recruitment ceiling

Your program keeps recruiting the same few hundred sites

In-house teams work the publishers the networks surface — a crowded set of coupon, cashback, and loyalty sites every competing brand also chases. The audience-matched content publishers who would actually sell your product live in the long tail, and nobody is competing for them. The figures below are extrapolations from our classification database, labeled as estimates, not guarantees.

~740,000 category domains

Domains our classifier associates with your product category — for an outdoor-gear brand, hiking, camping, climbing, trail, and adventure sites worldwide (estimate). This is the raw universe before any ICP screening.

Tens of thousands of qualifying publishers

The niche content publishers a real product-fit ICP clears once coupon-only, thin, and store-owned sites are removed (estimate). ~28,000 for a typical outdoor-gear profile — nearly all uncontested.

Your slice, defined by you

Narrow to a sub-niche — ultralight backpacking, van life, climbing, women's trail running — and the run returns only publishers whose readers buy exactly what you sell. Scope is a dial, not a fixed number.

How to read these numbers: universe counts come from our 120M+ classified-domain database; qualifying-publisher figures are estimates extrapolated from calibration slices. Your free pilot returns the first 20 real qualified publishers plus a full-run projection specific to your product and ICP.
ICP examples

What an audience-matched publisher looks like to your brand

Written from a brand affiliate manager's approval logic — what you actually check before inviting a partner. Each profile is expressed as the required, preferred, and disqualifying signals we screen for, using an outdoor-gear brand as the worked example.

Hands-on gear reviewer

Individual or small-team sites that field-test equipment and post their own photos from real trips. They convert because readers arrive already trusting the reviewer's judgment on exactly your product type.

Requires: first-hand product use · gear reviews · category relevance
Prefers: affiliate links present · fresh content · personal voice
Never: coupon-only · own store · spun content

How-to & skills authority

Sites teaching the activity your product supports — trip planning, technique guides, gear checklists. Their recommendations read as advice, not ads, which is why their audience acts on them.

Requires: how-to / skills content · category relevance · editorial independence
Prefers: evergreen guides · newsletter · engaged audience
Never: own store · thin / MFA

Niche lifestyle publisher

Deep single-topic sites — ultralight backpacking, van life, alpine climbing — whose whole audience is your target customer. Fit is near-total, so even modest traffic outperforms a generic deals site.

Requires: niche audience match · category relevance
Prefers: gear reviews · active social · fresh content
Never: coupon-only · own store

Seasonal / gift-guide publisher

Publishers that build "best gifts for hikers" and seasonal roundups your buyers search at peak. High intent, high margin, and rarely on any network's radar for a single brand.

Requires: roundup / gift-guide content · category relevance
Prefers: affiliate links present · seasonal freshness · display ads
Never: own store · spun content
The instrument

The signals we screen a brand's publishers on

Every domain in your product category is read against a fixed field set, each extracted from what the site actually publishes and shipped with a confidence score. Your ICP is a selection from this list — nothing vague, nothing guessed from a keyword match.

Product-category relevance Content publisher (not coupon-only) First-hand product use Gear / product reviews How-to & buying-guide content Audience match to your buyer Affiliate links present Display-ad monetization Newsletter / active social Content freshness (incl. seasonal) Language & geo focus Individual vs company-run Coupon-only site (disqualifier) Own store / competitor (disqualifier)

Need a field that isn't here — "already promotes a competing brand", "has YouTube reach", "accepts sponsored product placement"? Custom signals are defined per engagement and calibrated the same way.

Illustrative funnel

One brand, one vertical, from the whole web to your invite list

An illustrative full run for one outdoor-gear brand in the outdoor & adventure vertical. The category and screened counts are estimates from our classification database; your pilot returns real domains and a projection tuned to your exact product and ICP.

0
classified domains as the source
0
outdoor & adventure category domains (estimate)
0
ICP-fit content publishers (estimate)
0
delivered free in your pilot
120M+
classified domains
~740K
category (est.)
~28K
ICP-fit content (est.)
500
free pilot slice

Reference engagement (a large-scale production run on our own classification platform): 30M dataset → 1.73M vertical domains → 1.2M ICP-screened → ~96% precision on a reviewed sample. Outdoor-gear figures above are estimates, shown for illustration.

Why full-web discovery

Full-web discovery vs. the network's publisher directory

Your network only shows publishers already enrolled with it — the same crowded set every brand in your category is bidding for. The audience-matched content long tail is invisible to that model.

 Full-web discoveryNetwork directory / coupon list
Starting setEvery classified domain in your product categoryOnly sites already enrolled with the network
Publisher mixNiche content publishers matched to your buyerDominated by coupon & cashback sites
Competitor overlapNames your rivals never seeEveryone recruits the same short list
Screening logicYour required/preferred/disqualifying signal setSelf-reported category tags
Coupon-only noiseRemoved by the coupon-only disqualifierFront and center
OutputDeduplicated CSV, one row per canonical domainIn-platform list, limited export
Questions

Brand publisher discovery — FAQ

We already have a network account — why do we need this?
Your network shows publishers who enrolled with it — a set your competitors also recruit from. This finds the audience-matched content publishers who never joined a network for your category, so your outreach reaches partners nobody else is talking to.
Can you match publishers to my specific product, not just my category?
Yes. We narrow the category pull to your sub-niche and set an audience-match signal against your actual buyer — ultralight backpacking, van life, women's trail running, whatever fits. The ICP is calibrated on a reviewed sample before the full run, so you only receive publishers whose readers buy what you sell.
Can you exclude coupon and cashback sites?
The coupon-only pattern is a disqualifier by default, so incentive sites are removed structurally rather than by hand. If you want to keep a specific class — say cashback partners in one market — we adjust the disqualifying set during calibration.
Where do the ~740,000 and ~28,000 figures come from?
The category count is drawn from our 120M+ classified-domain database; the qualifying-publisher figure is an estimate extrapolated from calibration slices. Both are labeled as estimates. Your pilot replaces them with a projection built from your own product, ICP, and a real 20-publisher sample.
What does the free pilot include?
The full pipeline configured for your product and ICP, stopped at the first 20 qualified publishers — free — plus a projected full-run yield and quotes. It is the fastest way to see real audience-matched names before committing to anything.

Recruit the publishers your product was made for

The free pilot runs the full pipeline on your category, tuned to your ICP, and delivers your first 20 audience-matched publisher domains plus a full-run projection. No cost, no obligation.

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