25 Best Affiliate Programs for Beginners in 2026 (That Actually Pay)
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Most people who start affiliate marketing think it begins with Amazon.
It does not have to. And for many creators in specific niches, Amazon is not even the best starting point.
The affiliate marketing landscape in 2026 contains thousands of programmes across every category imaginable. Travel booking platforms. Blogging tools. Fashion brands. Software companies. Creative resources. Financial services. Educational platforms. The challenge for a beginner is not finding affiliate programmes. It is identifying which ones are genuinely worth joining, which ones approve beginners without demanding significant existing traffic, and which ones are aligned closely enough with your specific content that the recommendations feel natural rather than forced.
I have been building affiliate income through blogging and Pinterest for five years. In that time I have joined programmes that became significant income streams and programmes that produced almost nothing because the alignment between what I create and what they sell was never quite right. This guide is everything I know about the best affiliate programmes for beginners in 2026, built around the specific criteria that make a programme genuinely worth a beginner’s time.
What Is an Affiliate Programme?
Before the list, a clear definition of how the mechanism works, because understanding it changes how you approach selecting and using programmes.
An affiliate programme is a partnership arrangement between a company, the merchant, and a content creator, the affiliate. The merchant wants more customers and is willing to pay a commission to creators who refer them. The affiliate, you, recommends the merchant’s products or services to your audience. When someone from your audience clicks your unique tracking link and makes a purchase, the merchant’s system records the referral and pays you a percentage of the sale.
The key terms to understand:
Commission rate: The percentage of the sale value you earn. This ranges from under one percent for certain physical products to fifty percent or more for digital products and software subscriptions.
Cookie duration: The length of time after someone clicks your affiliate link during which a purchase still earns you commission. A 24-hour cookie means if someone clicks your link today and buys tomorrow you earn nothing. A 90-day cookie means if they buy anytime within 90 days of clicking you earn the commission.
Tracking link: Your unique URL that identifies you as the referral source. Every affiliate programme generates these for you once you are approved.
Payout threshold: The minimum balance you need to accumulate before the programme pays out. Some programmes pay at $10. Others require $100. Know this before joining.
Payment method: How the programme sends you money. PayPal, direct bank transfer, and cheque are the most common. Confirm the available method works for your location before investing time in a programme.
How to Choose the Right Affiliate Programme
Not every programme is worth a beginner’s time and the selection criteria matter more than the commission rate alone.
Relevance to your content. The most important criterion by a significant margin. An affiliate recommendation embedded in genuinely helpful editorial content about the same topic converts at dramatically higher rates than a link inserted into vaguely related content. The programme that pays fifty percent commission but has nothing to do with what you actually write about will earn less than the programme paying ten percent whose product appears naturally in your content every week.
Commission rate relative to product price. The commission percentage means less than the commission value per conversion. Ten percent of a $500 hotel booking is $50. Ten percent of a $5 product is fifty cents. Both are ten percent. The income they produce is entirely different.
Cookie duration. Longer is better. A 30-day cookie is standard and acceptable. A 90-day cookie is excellent. A 24-hour cookie, which Amazon Associates currently uses for most product categories, means the buying decision needs to happen quickly after the click for you to receive commission.
Approval accessibility. Some programmes require significant existing traffic before approving applications. Others approve beginners automatically. For someone starting out, beginning with accessible programmes while building the authority to qualify for more selective ones is the practical approach.
Payment reliability. Research whether the programme has a history of paying on time and whether there are reviews from affiliates about payment issues before investing significant content creation time in promoting it.
Product quality. You are attaching your name and your audience’s trust to every product you recommend. Recommending something you have not used or that is low quality damages the trust you are building with your audience in a way that is genuinely costly to your long-term income.
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25 Best Affiliate Programmes for Beginners in 2026
1. Amazon Associates
Amazon Associates is the starting point for most beginner affiliates and the recommendation for beginners most consistently holds up despite the programme’s lower commission rates compared to alternatives.
Best for: Any content creator recommending physical products, books, home goods, beauty, travel gear, electronics, or anything else sold on Amazon.
Commission rate: One to ten percent depending on product category. Physical electronics are at the lower end. Fashion and beauty are at the higher end.
Cookie duration: 24 hours, which is the primary limitation of the programme. Items added to the cart within the 24-hour window remain trackable for 90 days.
Pros: The broadest product range of any affiliate programme. High consumer trust and conversion rates because most buyers already have Amazon accounts. Accessible approval for new sites. SiteStripe makes link generation very simple.
Cons: The 24-hour cookie is the shortest of any major programme. Commission rates are lower than specialist programmes. Some categories have very low rates.
Why it is worth joining first: The approval process is accessible for new bloggers and Pinterest creators. The product range means you can link to almost anything you mention in your content immediately. And the trust advantage means Amazon links convert better per click than less familiar alternatives even with lower commission rates.
2. Impact
Impact is an affiliate network, meaning it hosts the programmes of thousands of individual brands rather than being a single brand’s programme. One Impact application gives you access to hundreds of brand programmes across every niche.
Best for: Bloggers and content creators in any niche who want access to multiple brand programmes through a single dashboard.
Commission rate: Varies by brand programme within the network. Ranges from three percent to fifty percent depending on the specific brand and product category.
Cookie duration: Varies by brand programme, typically 30 to 90 days.
Pros: Enormous range of brands. Clean, well-designed dashboard. Good tracking and reporting. Home to many well-known brand programmes that are not available elsewhere.
Cons: Individual brand programmes within Impact have their own approval processes and traffic requirements. Newly published sites may be rejected from specific brand programmes even after Impact network approval.
Best approach: Apply for Impact network approval first and then apply to the individual brand programmes most relevant to your specific content. Start with the most accessible brands in your niche and expand as your traffic grows.
3. Awin
Awin is one of the most globally established affiliate networks with a particularly strong presence in fashion, retail, travel, and financial services. It is particularly useful for content creators outside the United States where some US-focused networks have limited brand options.
Best for: Fashion bloggers, travel bloggers, lifestyle creators, and any creator working with European or international brands.
Commission rate: Varies by brand, typically three to fifteen percent for fashion and retail.
Cookie duration: Varies by brand, typically 30 days.
Pros: Strong global brand portfolio. Particularly excellent for UK and European brands. Hosts many fashion brands not available on US-focused networks. The Awin Access programme is designed specifically for beginners.
Cons: Requires a small deposit to join that is refunded after your first payment. Some brands within the network have high traffic requirements.
4. ShareASale
ShareASale is one of the oldest and most established affiliate networks in the industry and remains one of the most beginner-friendly because of its straightforward approval process and broad brand range.
Best for: Lifestyle bloggers, home and garden content creators, fashion and beauty creators, and anyone who wants a simple, reliable network with a large brand catalogue.
Commission rate: Varies by brand, typically five to twenty percent.
Cookie duration: Varies by brand, typically 30 to 90 days.
Pros: Large number of brands. Straightforward approval process. Reliable payment history. Good interface for beginners. Home to many niche brands not available on larger networks.
Cons: Interface is less modern than Impact. Some brands within the network have slower approval processes.
5. CJ Affiliate (Commission Junction)
CJ Affiliate is one of the largest affiliate networks globally and hosts premium brand programmes that are not available through other networks. The approval standards for individual brand programmes are higher than ShareASale or Awin but the brand quality is consistently excellent.
Best for: Established bloggers with meaningful traffic looking for premium brand partnerships in travel, technology, finance, and retail.
Commission rate: Varies significantly by brand, typically five to thirty percent.
Cookie duration: Varies by brand.
Pros: Premium brand catalogue. Large network. Well-established payment history. Good reporting tools.
Cons: Higher traffic requirements for brand-level approval. Less accessible for complete beginners. Dashboard has a learning curve.
6. Rakuten Advertising
Rakuten Advertising hosts a selection of well-known brand programmes including several major retailers and has a particularly strong presence in fashion and lifestyle categories.
Best for: Fashion and lifestyle bloggers, particularly those working with specific major retail brands that run their programmes through Rakuten.
Commission rate: Varies by brand.
Cookie duration: Varies by brand, typically 30 days.
Pros: Home to specific major brand programmes not available elsewhere. Established network with reliable payment history.
Cons: Smaller network than CJ or ShareASale. Dashboard is functional but not the most user-friendly.
7. PartnerStack
PartnerStack specialises in software and SaaS affiliate programmes and is the network to join if your content is in the technology, online business, or software tool categories.
Best for: Bloggers and creators in the business, technology, and software niches. Anyone recommending tools, platforms, and software to their audience.
Commission rate: Typically fifteen to fifty percent for SaaS products. Many programmes offer recurring commissions.
Cookie duration: Typically 30 to 90 days.
Pros: Recurring commission opportunities on subscription products. High percentage commission rates relative to physical product programmes. Software tools convert well with content creator audiences.
Cons: More limited to software niche. Not relevant for lifestyle, travel, or fashion content.
8. Travelpayouts
Travelpayouts is the most comprehensive travel affiliate network available, aggregating programmes from flight booking platforms, hotel booking services, car rental companies, travel insurance providers, and activity booking platforms into a single network.
Best for: Travel bloggers and content creators in any niche who create travel content. Solo female travel content. Destination guides. Packing and travel gear content.
Commission rate: Typically one to five percent on bookings with higher rates on insurance and some activity products.
Cookie duration: 30 days on most programmes within the network.
Pros: One application gives access to the full range of travel affiliate products. Includes major brands like Booking.com, Kiwi.com, and multiple travel insurance providers. One of the most natural affiliate networks for any travel content creator.
Cons: Commission rates on flight and hotel bookings are modest. High booking values partially offset this.
This is one of the most important affiliate network applications for HerDailySpace specifically given the significant travel content across Zanzibar, Bali, Mauritius, Seychelles, and Phu Quoc guides on the site.
9. Booking.com Affiliate Partner
Booking.com runs its own affiliate programme independently of Travelpayouts and is worth joining directly for any blogger creating accommodation recommendation content.
Best for: Travel bloggers, destination guide creators, hotel recommendation content.
Commission rate: Approximately four percent of the booking value, paid after the guest completes the stay.
Cookie duration: 30 days.
Pros: Universally recognised brand. High conversion rate due to consumer trust. Covers accommodation worldwide.
Cons: Commission only paid after completed stays meaning there is a delay between the referral and the payment.
10. Expedia Affiliate Programme
Expedia’s affiliate programme covers the full Expedia ecosystem including Hotels.com and other brands within the group. Particularly strong for complete travel booking content covering flights, hotels, and package deals.
Best for: Travel content creators who cover complete trip planning including flights and accommodation.
Commission rate: Two to six percent depending on the product type within the Expedia ecosystem.
Cookie duration: Typically 30 days.
11. GetYourGuide
GetYourGuide is the leading affiliate programme for activity and experience bookings globally. For any destination guide content that mentions tours, activities, and experiences, GetYourGuide is one of the most natural affiliate partnerships available.
Best for: Travel bloggers and destination guide creators. Solo female travel content. Any content that includes recommendations for things to do at specific destinations.
Commission rate: Eight percent on activity and experience bookings.
Cookie duration: 30 days.
Pros: High commission rate relative to other travel booking programmes. Activities and experiences are a natural recommendation category within destination guides. Covers most major tourist destinations globally.
12. Viator
Viator, part of the TripAdvisor group, operates similarly to GetYourGuide as an activity and experience booking platform. Running both GetYourGuide and Viator affiliate links in destination content maximises the coverage of activity booking options available to readers.
Best for: Travel and destination content creators.
Commission rate: Eight percent on bookings.
Cookie duration: 30 days.
13. Canva Affiliate Programme
Canva is the design tool used by most bloggers, content creators, and social media managers and the affiliate programme is one of the most natural recommendations available for any creator whose audience is building an online presence.
Best for: Blogging and online business content creators. Pinterest and social media marketing content. Anyone whose audience is creating visual content.
Commission rate: Approximately $36 per Canva Pro annual subscription referred or a percentage of the subscription value.
Cookie duration: 30 days.
Pros: Canva is genuinely used by the vast majority of online content creators making the recommendation authentic rather than forced. High conversion because the product is free to start with an upgrade path that demonstrates its value clearly.
14. Kit (formerly ConvertKit)
Kit is one of the most widely used email marketing platforms among bloggers and content creators and the affiliate programme pays recurring commissions on referred subscriptions.
Best for: Blogging content creators, online business and income building content. Any creator whose audience is building an email list.
Commission rate: 30 percent recurring commission on referred subscriptions.
Cookie duration: 90 days.
Pros: Recurring commission is one of the most valuable commission structures available because you earn every month a referred subscriber remains on the platform. The 90-day cookie is excellent. Kit is genuinely used and genuinely recommended by most serious bloggers.
15. Bluehost
Bluehost is one of the most established web hosting affiliate programmes for bloggers recommending hosting to other beginner bloggers.
Best for: Blogging about how to start a blog, online income building content, beginner blogging guides.
Commission rate: $65 to $130 per referred signup depending on the promotion period.
Cookie duration: 60 days.
Pros: High per-conversion commission. Established brand with good beginner recognition. Natural recommendation within how to start a blog content.
Cons: The market for beginner hosting recommendations is competitive with many established bloggers already promoting the same brands.
16. Hostinger
Hostinger’s affiliate programme is the alternative to Bluehost that I personally recommend and use because Hostinger’s pricing for beginner bloggers is more accessible and the conversion rate on affordable hosting plans is strong.
Best for: Blogging content creators, how to start a blog guides, online income building content.
Commission rate: 60 percent of the referred purchase value which produces $35 to $100 per conversion depending on the plan referred.
Cookie duration: 30 days.
Pros: Very competitive commission structure. Hostinger’s affordable pricing makes it a compelling recommendation for budget-conscious beginner bloggers. Strong conversion rate on the lower-priced plans that beginners are most likely to purchase.
17. Shopify
Shopify’s affiliate programme offers among the highest individual commission payments of any beginner-accessible programme, reflecting the value of a recurring subscription customer for the platform.
Best for: Online business and ecommerce content creators, digital product content, anyone whose audience includes people building online stores.
Commission rate: Approximately $150 per referred Shopify subscription, varying by promotion period.
Cookie duration: 30 days.
Pros: Very high per-conversion commission. Shopify is a well-recognised brand with strong conversion rates in the online business audience.
Cons: Relevant primarily to content about building an ecommerce business rather than a blog.
18. Fiverr Affiliates
Fiverr’s affiliate programme allows you to earn commission on referrals to their freelance marketplace, covering both buyers looking for services and sellers looking to offer their skills.
Best for: Online business content creators, freelancing guides, content about hiring virtual assistants and freelance help.
Commission rate: Up to $150 per first-time buyer referred, or a revenue share model.
Cookie duration: 30 days.
Pros: Fiverr is a highly recognised brand. Multiple commission structures to choose from depending on your audience.
19. Semrush
Semrush’s affiliate programme pays significant commissions for referred subscriptions to one of the most widely used SEO and keyword research tools in the industry.
Best for: SEO and blogging content creators. Anyone creating content about keyword research, blog growth, or content strategy.
Commission rate: $200 per referred Semrush subscription.
Cookie duration: 120 days, which is among the longest available in any affiliate programme.
Pros: Very high per-conversion value. The 120-day cookie is exceptional. Semrush is the industry standard tool that serious bloggers and marketers already use.
Cons: The high subscription cost of Semrush means conversion rates are lower than more affordable tools. The audience needs to be genuinely ready for a professional SEO tool investment.
20. Tailwind
Tailwind’s affiliate programme is one of the most naturally aligned commissions for any content creator who covers Pinterest marketing, as covered throughout the HerDailySpace Pinterest content cluster.
Best for: Pinterest marketing content, blogging growth content, social media marketing guides.
Commission rate: Approximately 15 percent of referred subscription value.
Cookie duration: 90 days.
Pros: Natural recommendation within Pinterest marketing content. Tailwind is the most widely recommended Pinterest scheduling tool and the recommendation comes with genuine conviction for anyone who uses it.
21. Creative Market
Creative Market is an online marketplace for design resources including fonts, templates, graphics, and website themes. The affiliate programme pays commission on referred purchases.
Best for: Design, blogging, and content creation audiences. Anyone creating content about Canva, web design, or visual content creation.
Commission rate: 15 percent on referred purchases.
Cookie duration: 30 days.
Pros: Creative Market products are naturally relevant to content creators. The marketplace has broad product coverage that makes natural recommendations possible across many content types.
22. Etsy Creator Affiliate
Etsy’s affiliate programme allows creators to earn commission on purchases made through their affiliate links to Etsy products and shops. Particularly relevant for lifestyle, home, fashion, and handmade content.
Best for: Lifestyle bloggers, home and décor content, fashion and accessories content, handmade and artisan product recommendations.
Commission rate: Four percent on referred purchases.
Cookie duration: 30 days.
Pros: Etsy’s product range is extraordinarily broad. Natural recommendation for lifestyle content. The artisan and handmade quality of Etsy products aligns well with recommendations in the self-care, home, and fashion categories.
23. Skillshare
Skillshare’s affiliate programme pays commission on referred memberships to the online learning platform covering creative, business, and technology skills.
Best for: Online business content creators, creative skill development content, anyone whose audience is interested in learning new skills.
Commission rate: Approximately $7 to $10 per referred trial signup.
Cookie duration: 30 days.
Pros: Easy beginner approval. Natural recommendation for content about skill building and online business development.
24. Coursera
Coursera’s affiliate programme pays commission on referred course purchases and subscription signups to one of the world’s largest online learning platforms.
Best for: Education and personal development content, online income building content, professional development guides.
Commission rate: 10 to 45 percent depending on the product type and promotion.
Cookie duration: 30 days.
Pros: Coursera’s association with major universities gives it strong conversion credibility. Wide course range covering almost every skill category.
25.NordVPN
NordVPN’s affiliate programme pays one of the most competitive commission structures available for a single product recommendation in the technology category, with recurring revenue potential from subscription renewals.
Best for: Technology and online security content, digital nomad and remote work content, travel blogging where VPN use is relevant.
Commission rate: 40 to 100 percent on initial purchase plus 30 percent on renewals, depending on the plan type.
Cookie duration: 30 days.
Pros: Very competitive commission structure. Recurring renewal commissions. NordVPN is one of the most recognised brands in the VPN category with strong consumer trust and conversion rates.
Best Affiliate Programmes by Niche
Blogging and Online Business
The strongest affiliate programme stack for blogging and online business content is Hostinger for web hosting, Kit for email marketing, Canva for design tools, Tailwind for Pinterest scheduling, and Semrush for SEO tools. These five programmes cover the complete set of tools a new blogger needs and produce natural, honest recommendations within genuinely helpful content.
Travel
The strongest travel affiliate stack is Travelpayouts as the primary network covering flight, hotel, and insurance referrals, supplemented by GetYourGuide and Viator for activity bookings, Booking.com directly for hotel recommendations, and Amazon Associates for travel gear and packing products.
Fashion and Lifestyle
Awin for major fashion brand access, Amazon Associates for accessible product linking, RewardStyle or LTK for fashion-specific content monetisation, and ShareASale for the wide range of lifestyle brands available within the network.
Home
Amazon Associates for the broad product range at accessible commission rates and Wayfair’s affiliate programme for dedicated home and furniture content.
Beauty
Sephora’s affiliate programme through Rakuten or Impact for premium beauty product recommendations. Ulta Beauty’s programme for mass-market beauty content. Amazon Associates for accessible beauty product linking.
Finance
Wise’s referral programme for international money transfer content relevant to travel bloggers and digital nomads. Payoneer’s affiliate programme for content about receiving international payments as a freelancer or blogger.
Software and Creative Tools
Canva for design tools, Adobe’s affiliate programme for the Creative Cloud suite, Notion’s affiliate programme for productivity tool content, and PartnerStack as the network for accessing additional software programmes relevant to your specific content.
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The Difference Between an Affiliate Programme and an Affiliate Network
This distinction matters for how you approach your applications.
An affiliate programme is run by a single company for their own products. Amazon Associates, Booking.com’s affiliate partner programme, and Hostinger’s affiliate programme are all examples. You apply directly to the company and their system tracks your referrals and pays your commissions.
An affiliate network hosts the programmes of many different companies in a single platform. Impact, Awin, ShareASale, and CJ Affiliate are networks. You apply once to the network and then apply separately to individual brand programmes within it. One network login gives you access to hundreds of brand programmes, a single dashboard for tracking all your referrals and commissions, and a single payment for all the commissions you earn across brands within the network.
For a beginner the practical difference is that networks reduce administrative complexity. One Impact login gives you access to the dashboard where you manage referrals from dozens of different brand partnerships rather than managing separate logins for each.
Which Affiliate Programme Should Beginners Join First?
The recommended sequence for a beginner starting from zero is based on approval accessibility, immediate applicability to most content types, and the speed of seeing first results.
First: Amazon Associates. Apply immediately when your blog or Pinterest account is live. The broadest product range means you can add affiliate links to almost any content you publish immediately. The 24-hour cookie is a disadvantage but the accessibility and breadth justify joining first.
Second: Travelpayouts (if you create any travel content) or Impact (for all other niches). Both provide access to multiple programmes through a single application. Travelpayouts is the most important single network for any travel content creator. Impact is the most important network for bloggers in business, lifestyle, and online income niches.
Third: Awin. Particularly if your content covers fashion, lifestyle, or European brands. The global brand portfolio and the Awin Access beginner programme make this the third most valuable network for most content creators.
Fourth: Hostinger or Bluehost. If your content covers blogging and online income building, a web hosting affiliate partnership is one of the highest per-conversion income opportunities available. Join the hosting programme that you genuinely use and can honestly recommend.
Fifth: Kit or Canva. For any content covering the tools of building an online business, these two programmes produce natural recurring commission through recommendations that are genuinely part of your workflow.
Common Affiliate Marketing Mistakes
Joining every available programme simultaneously. The result is an overwhelming number of dashboards, products, and tracking links that you never actually integrate into your content effectively. Join two or three programmes that are directly relevant to your existing content and expand as the income from those justifies the time investment in additional programmes.
Promoting products you have not used. The recommendations that convert best are the ones where genuine personal experience is behind them. Readers can distinguish between a recommendation built on real use and one manufactured for the commission. The trust that genuine recommendations build is the compounding asset of affiliate marketing and promoting products you have not used undermines it.
Ignoring SEO in affiliate content. Affiliate income from a blog requires traffic to the content containing the affiliate links. Traffic requires SEO. Creating affiliate content without keyword research means creating content that nobody finds regardless of how good the recommendations within it are.
Not building trust before recommending products. An affiliate link in the very first paragraph of your first blog post converts at almost zero because no trust exists yet. The trust that produces affiliate conversions is built through consistent, genuinely helpful content over time.
Not disclosing affiliate links. Legally required in most jurisdictions and ethically required in all of them. A clear, prominent disclosure on any content containing affiliate links is both the right thing to do and the thing that maintains the reader trust that makes affiliate income sustainable
Start With the Right Programmes and Build From There
Affiliate marketing is not about joining every programme available and inserting links into every piece of content you publish.
It is about choosing the programmes whose products genuinely serve your specific audience, creating content that helps that audience make better purchasing decisions, and placing your affiliate links within the most genuinely helpful version of that content.
The income that results from this approach compounds over time in a way that random, volume-focused affiliate activity cannot produce. A blog post with two or three genuine affiliate recommendations that ranks in Google and receives consistent Pinterest traffic will earn more over its lifetime than twenty posts with links to every available product in a category that nobody is searching for.
Start with two or three programmes from this list that align most directly with what you already create. Learn what content produces clicks and conversions in your specific niche. Add programmes as your content and your audience grow. The affiliate income that results will grow with them.
With love,
Nia
FAQ
Can beginners join affiliate programmes?
Yes. Most of the programmes on this list accept beginners. Amazon Associates, Awin, ShareASale, and Travelpayouts all have accessible approval processes for new websites and content creators. Some individual brand programmes within networks have traffic requirements but the networks themselves are accessible from the start.
Do affiliate programmes cost money to join?
No. Every legitimate affiliate programme is free to join. If any programme requires payment for affiliate membership it is not a legitimate affiliate programme. The only exception is Awin which requires a small refundable deposit that is returned after your first commission payment.
Which affiliate programme pays the most?
The programme that pays the most per conversion is not necessarily the one that earns the most total income. Semrush pays $200 per conversion but conversion rates are lower. Amazon pays much lower commissions but the volume of conversions is much higher. The highest total income comes from the programme whose product is most relevant to your specific audience and whose commission structure works with the realistic conversion rate in your niche.
Which affiliate programmes approve beginners without traffic requirements?
Amazon Associates, Awin, ShareASale, Travelpayouts, GetYourGuide, Canva, and Hostinger are all accessible for beginner content creators without significant existing traffic requirements. Individual brand programmes within networks have varying requirements but the networks themselves approve beginners.
