{"id":339199,"date":"2017-04-25T00:34:09","date_gmt":"2017-04-24T16:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2017\/04\/24\/apple-reducing-app-store-commission-rate\/"},"modified":"2017-04-25T00:34:09","modified_gmt":"2017-04-24T16:34:09","slug":"apple-to-reduce-affiliate-program-commission-rate-to-2-5-for-apps-next-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/apple-to-reduce-affiliate-program-commission-rate-to-2-5-for-apps-next-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple to Reduce Affiliate Program Commission Rate to 2.5% for Apps Next Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"body\" readability=\"38.92385786802\">Apple today <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/drbarnard\/status\/856543871714643971\">emailed<\/a> its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apple.com\/itunes\/affiliates\/\">iTunes Affiliate Program<\/a> members to inform them that its commission rate for all apps and in-app content will be reduced to 2.5 percent on May 1, down from 7 percent, globally.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.macrumors.com\/article-new\/2017\/04\/itunes-affiliates.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"185\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-562009\"\/><br \/>Apple will continue to offer a <a href=\"https:\/\/affiliate.itunes.apple.com\/resources\/documentation\/getting-started\/\">7 percent commission rate<\/a> for all other iTunes content, including music, movies, TV shows, and books. Apple will also continue to offer a one-time 50 percent commission on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/roundup\/apple-music\/\">Apple Music<\/a> subscriptions.<\/p>\n<p>Through the iTunes Affiliate Program, websites can link to and promote <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/roundup\/app-store\/\">App Store<\/a> apps and receive a percentage of the sale in return.\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple today <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/drbarnard\/status\/856543871714643971\">emailed<\/a> its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apple.com\/itunes\/affiliates\/\">iTunes Affiliate Program<\/a> members to inform them that its commission rate for all apps and in-app content will be reduced to 2.5 percent on May 1, down from 7 percent, globally.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.macrumors.com\/article-new\/2017\/04\/itunes-affiliates.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"185\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-562009\" \/><br \/>\n<br \/>\nApple will continue to offer a <a href=\"https:\/\/affiliate.itunes.apple.com\/resources\/documentation\/getting-started\/\">7 percent commission rate<\/a> for all other iTunes content, including music, movies, TV shows, and books. Apple will also continue to offer a one-time 50 percent commission on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/roundup\/apple-music\/\">Apple Music<\/a> subscriptions.<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Ouch! Apple just slashed the affiliate commission on apps and IAP. This will impact lots of great sites\/apps. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dbv7CboMX3\">pic.twitter.com\/dbv7CboMX3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; David Barnard (@drbarnard) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/drbarnard\/status\/856543871714643971\">April 24, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><br \/>\n<br \/>\nThrough the iTunes Affiliate Program, websites can link to and promote <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/roundup\/app-store\/\">App Store<\/a> apps and receive a percentage of the sale in return.<\/p>\n<div class=\"linkback\">Tags: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/roundup\/app-store\/\">App Store<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/roundup\/itunes-affiliate-program\/\">iTunes Affiliate Program<\/a> <\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/forums.macrumors.com\/threads\/apple-reducing-app-store-commission-rate.2043008\/\">Discuss this article<\/a> in our forums<\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.macrumors.com\/~ff\/MacRumors-All?a=1c5oZc7YMoU:tXhVkvsLODw:6W8y8wAjSf4\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/MacRumors-All?d=6W8y8wAjSf4\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.macrumors.com\/~ff\/MacRumors-All?a=1c5oZc7YMoU:tXhVkvsLODw:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/MacRumors-All?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/MacRumors-All\/~4\/1c5oZc7YMoU\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\"\/> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5817,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[68,69,59,26],"class_list":["post-339199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-apple","tag-macrumors","tag-media","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5817"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}