The pandemic’s effects on affiliate marketing programs for essential versus non-essential goods have varied massively. While affiliate offers for gyms and some education courses have been substantially lowered or canceled, the pandemic was favorable for affiliate programs for health supplements, medical supplies, and other essential goods and services.

Internet bandwidth is another essential good that has experienced a significant upsurge in demand since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic.

While residential IP users are compensated merely for renting out their unused bandwidth, companies like IPRoyal have introduced affiliate programs that offer users a way to boost their earnings. Here, users are rewarded a commission rate from the shared bandwidth of every new user that has joined the IPRoyal Pawns platform via their affiliate link.

“While sharing internet bandwidth may be a way for people to earn enough to cover their data plans, our affiliate program offers a way to generate a more substantial income. Given that the average earnings on our platform are in the $5–20 range, a person who invites 100 new users, can generate up to $2000 a month,” said Karolis Toleikis, CEO at IPRoyal. “We see this initiative as a way to outsource part of our marketing efforts and we treat the users who participate in the affiliate program as our partners.”

In addition to offering a way to generate passive income through participation in their affiliate program, some residential IP providers extend companies and individuals an opportunity to become large-scale distributors of their residential IPs.

“Aside from working with our end-users directly, we also work on a B2B basis, supplying other residential proxy providers with residential IPs. We also provide users with a special residential IP reselling API that they can easily integrate into their website. We handle all of their proxy-related administrative duties and maintain the servers in check. This way the companies can focus on identifying prospective user segments, branding, and other day-to-day activities of running a business,” explained Mr. Toleikis.

While entering this form of partnership usually requires undertaking more robust investments in marketing and business development, the potential pay-offs are much greater too. In part, this is due to the substantial discounts that are applied to wholesale purchases of residential IPs.

“Reselling residential IPs is particularly profitable if companies decide to purchase proxies at higher quantities. As far as regular proxy pricing goes, we usually charge $2/GB, however, for those purchasing over 5000GB, the price goes down to $0.80. Therefore, companies that resell proxies at our regular price make $1.20 for every GB sold, which is a decent profit margin,” said Mr. Toleikis.

As countries begin to ease lockdown restrictions and industry sectors recover, the lasting effects of the pandemic will become clearer. While the current circumstances have been harsh on some affiliate marketing segments, the time of the pandemic has also created new employment opportunities.

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With more and more companies relying on big data analytics, having a residential proxy provider – a service that allows its users to collect data more efficiently – is becoming a prerequisite for staying competitive. Simultaneously, individuals are starting to use these services to purchase limited-edition items and receive substantial discounts on goods sold online.

Proxy servers act as a gateway between the end-users and the websites they browse.

1. Brand Protection. Residential IPs allow brands to scan the web for copies and counterfeits of their products. Having a better overview of what is offered online enables them to react to intellectual property violations and protect their customers from fraud.
 

2. SEO and Business Intelligence. Having an uncensored view of the internet allows IP proxy users to gather and analyze competitor-related data such as their prices without being blocked or misled. Often, that is a substantial asset that enables businesses to gain a competitive edge.
 

3. Buying High-Demand Limited Edition Items. Special release gadgets, designer clothing, and –most recently–sneakers are now an emerging alternative asset class. That rising demand for such items makes the act of a successful purchase much more difficult. That is why eager resellers have started making use of residential proxies purchase requests and successfully obtain these coveted items before anyone else.  

“Whenever a limited-edition sneaker is a few days away from ‘dropping’, we see the demand for proxies jump five, ten times of regular proxy demand. For instance—we just experienced a spike last week with Supreme x Nike SB Dunk Low and Air Jordan 1 University Blue drops,” said Karolis Toleikis, CEO of IPRoyal – a residential proxy provider.

4. Ad Verification. With malvertising and ad fraud continuously taking up new forms, an increasing amount of websites are infiltrated by malicious actors who prevent the proper delivery of ads to the intended audience. Using services as such, companies can check whether their ads are running correctly and showing up on the right websites, exactly how they were initially intended to.
 

5. App Testing. Mobile app testing is often a complex process. Different screen resolutions, several operating systems, multiple connection types – all of that has to be accounted for before releasing an app to the public.  Residential IP providers enable app developers to improve their testing flow so that their users experience the app content as it was meant to.
 

6. Content Delivery. Millions of individuals have to deal with the fact that some content is geo-restricted to them. However, these restrictions can be surpassed by temporarily borrowing somebody else’s IP, which makes the internet genuinely borderless.
 

7. Price Comparison. Prices for goods and –especially– digital products tend to vary substantially from country to country. For example, while a monthly Youtube subscription might cost $11.99 to a person residing in the US, it will only set back a Russian resident by $2.69. Residential IP providers like IPRoyal allow users to find the best deals on products sold online.
 

8. Affiliate Link Testing. With affiliate marketing fraud on the rise, more and more companies employ ad verification proxies to verify that their affiliate marketers are operating under the proper conditions and guidelines. Companies rent out residential IPs to scan through their advertisers’ landing pages, detect malicious redirects thus protecting their customers from fraud.
 

9. Talent Sourcing. As working from home has become part of the new normal – companies are increasingly having to rely on online recruiting. This is where a residential proxy becomes useful allowing them to use web-scraping without getting banned and spend less time manually going through hundreds of applications.
 

10. Internet privacy. When using residential proxies individuals can appear as if they are browsing the net in another location. Proxies keep your online activity, personal information, IP address, browsing history, and other data anonymous and secure.
 

11. Social Media Management. Social media managers often create several accounts to promote their brand. But the issue they face is that  Facebook, Instagram, and other platforms tend to ban users who have multiple accounts. Since these apps track users by their IP address, employing a residential proxy is a way to circumvent these restrictions.

“IP proxies –such as the ones we provide at IPRoyal– mask the user device’s IP address and cause websites and services to believe they’re in another region or country. Even though it might not sound like much, the practical applications and the benefits it generates for their users are virtually endless,” said Karolis Toleikis, CEO of IPRoyal.

In order to take advantage of many freedoms and opportunities residential proxies enable – you should choose a legitimate, secure, and trustworthy proxy service provider that will offer clean proxies, which means they have not been blacklisted, banned, or flagged for suspicious activity.

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