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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