In case you missed it, Unity is announcing a new Affiliate Program! The Affiliate Program empowers the global Unity community to discuss and promote how they’re building their dreams using the Asset Store while earning commissions.
As a Unity affiliate, you can link to any Asset Store product from your website, blog, or social media page and earn commission on referring sales to Asset Store. Everybody wins: Asset Store publishers get valuable exposure, Unity users have new avenues for discovering great assets, and you get paid!
Quick FAQ - What is the affiliate program?
If you manage a blog, website or your own social media page, then the Unity Affiliate Program provides a great opportunity for you to enhance your site by linking to Asset Store while earning commissions.
How does it work?
After you apply for our program and are accepted as an affiliate of Unity, you may place Asset Store links via widgets, text links and direct links on your website or social media page. When your visitors clicks on your affiliated links to Asset Store, Unity rewards commissions on any referring sales that occur within a 24 hour tracking window. So the more visitors you refer and the more of those visitors who purchase assets from the Unity Asset Store, then the more you commissions you will earn.
I have many websites, can I use my Affiliate account for all of them?
Yes, as long as your sites comply with the program terms, we do not restrict how many sites are tied to your affiliate account.
How do I sign up?
Applying to become an affiliate is quick and easy. Apply now with your contact information and website url where you plan to promote Unity Asset Store. We will review your application within 5 business days, and you will receive a notification email once we reviewed your application.
Hey, not to sure if this is the best place to write it, but how about having the option of adding the profits as Unity Asset Credits? Seems simpler than doing a bank transfer, although PayPal would still be the best.
hello guys. I don’t know if i’m doing something wrong with this but i’ve got 74 clicks and zero conversion for this month…seems not really being worth the effort.
My conversion rate has gone to zero over the past couple of months despite my (small number) conversion doubling… I had been getting a conversion roughly ever 50 clicks. I’ve gone 200+ without a conversion…? I associate this somewhat with the new store rolling out.
Am I doing something wrong? Are others experiencing this?
Hey, @216830_Jwolf and @MadeFromPolygons_1 - I’ve just reached out to our affiliate team to make sure there aren’t any roadblocks that should be stopping the conversions from being tracked. We’ve also confirmed that 2.0 is confirmed working with the affiliate links.
You can always reach out to affiliates@unity3d.com. Make sure you provide information regarding what you’re seeing and they can try to get to the bottom of it.
I have one conversion in 2018. It was on January 1st… This is not a big source of revenue, but still nice to see a little trickle in. Maybe I’ll do some testing. I have a second account for work.
Good to know I’m not the only one seeing an issue.
Edit: The last conversion was at midnight on January 1st. Seems like that might be a time zone thing and was made in 2017… Maybe a reach but was interesting. Hard to draw conclusions from a data set of one.
I did some testing with my personal and work account. I was able to purchase an asset via an affiliate link and could see the conversion show up.
However, I was unable to complete the purchase using Chrome. When I clicked the button “proceed to checkout” I got the spinning wheel icon on the button. I tried this several times and on two different days. I switched browsers and was able complete the purchase in Firefox. I do use an ad blocker on Chrome and not on Firefox. If this is truly the cause of the problem - and it seems like it may align with the new store roll out - this makes the Unity Affiliate program fairly useless.
A quick search shows a few (not a lot) folks having similar problems. If a user wants an asset and can’t purchase it in a browser they are likely to make the purchase in Unity and then the content creators will not get credit for driving the traffic. Or does the asset store track affiliate links in the cart and not in browser cookies?
I’m willing to accept this is a statical anomaly and that everything is working, but I should have 4-6 conversions and I have 1. The chances seem slim. It doesn’t seem unreasonable that the new asset store may have something to do with the change in conversion. Definitely bummed to lose a (small) revenue stream.
Hello everyone, Paypal is not great but it is really unsafe and dangerous. PLEASE USE CREDIT CARDS LIKE VISA or MASTERCARD because it is good for security reason. That is why I want high safe. You know my brother said me - I am deaf and I can’t hold money from Paybal because Paybal is dangerous. I never use and I no longer support for paypal. For me only Visa- or Master-Cards with high safe like ( eConTan Verify checker )
Thanks! Please ban PayPal! Now Germans never use much with PayPal because they are scared if hackers or scammers steal money…
Because Germany has security reason of any banks - if banks worry to customers if they don’t have experiences like scammer get moneys from rich Germans that is why Germans need protect with money . PayPal is bad and is really dangerous - that is why I never allow that. I hold who use PayPal - I don’t support if you use my android games made with Unity than you buy with credits to my items for examples.
You don’t know why is PayPal very high dangerous?
Check website with Germans
There German Language breaking news are high risk. That is reason. I never allow Paypal to Unity 3D - Please remember security reason for Germany - Who is clever like Japan = No problem
USA = 90 % negative - need security reason
Philippines = 40 % oh, oh, oh need security reason…
Indian = 100 % negative - need security reason
Germany = 100 % negative - need security reason
Yemen = 100 % negative - need security reason
and another more countries from 50 to 90 % negative - need security reason
Japan = 0.2 % - eh, it is positive because Japanese are very clever and how do they evade again scammers.
