This week in FMTC’s Affiliate Roundup: AI’s value is shifting to recommendation, not checkout. Brands are racing to scale customer reviews for AI discovery. Facebook is prioritizing original content over reposts.
• Industry reaction to ChatGPT’s checkout reversal suggests AI’s real value lies in product discovery and recommendation, not transactions.
• Brands are racing to collect and distribute customer reviews across the web as AI increasingly uses them to power product recommendations.
• Partnerize and Profound are teaming up to connect AI visibility to actual revenue and partner compensation, closing the attribution gap in zero-click, AI-driven commerce.
• New Balance is expanding its resale platform to include apparel, betting on branded resale as a growth and customer acquisition channel beyond footwear.
• Facebook is prioritizing original content with greater reach and monetization while cracking down on impersonators and reposts, including new tools to detect and report copycats.
• Marketers are split on principal media after WPP’s rebate controversy exposed transparency concerns, with debate over whether the model drives efficiency or hides agency profits.
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