This week in FMTC’s Affiliate Roundup: Google Chrome now shows AI-generated store reviews to help U.S. shoppers assess retailers. AI referrals to top websites rose 357% year-over-year in June 2025. Practical Ecommerce expects strong 2025 holiday growth driven by AI and faster delivery.


Google Chrome now uses AI to show quick store review summaries on U.S. desktop, helping shoppers assess online retailers at a glance.

• Practical Ecommerce predicts strong 2025 holiday e-commerce growth driven by AI-assisted shopping, faster deliveries, cross-border sales, and rising consumer confidence.

Affiverse explores how affiliate partnerships can be made “bulletproof” by prioritizing real-time, transaction-level data sharing, fostering deep trust through transparent metrics and relationship-building, and aligning on performance-focused, scalable strategies.

• Admitad partnered with Stape to offer improved server-side tracking for more accurate, privacy-compliant affiliate marketing.

• Geniuslink has launched “Geniuslink Express,” a mobile app that lets users quickly create geo-optimized, affiliate-ready links from their phones without logging in.

• AI referrals to top websites surged 357% year-over-year in June 2025, reaching 1.13 billion visits.

The Performance Marketing Association (PMA) webinar highlights how integrating affiliate marketing into Marketing Mix Modeling improves attribution accuracy and reveals full-funnel value.

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