Photography Top 7 List - Best Affiliate Programs

CJ is one of the world's largest affiliate networks and is packed with affiliate programs from well-known brands. The publisher control panel is user-friendly and provides detailed information about each offer. The advertiser search page allows filtering by various criteria. CJ has over 2,700 offers, with a significant number available for USA and UK customers, and varying availability for other countries and languages.

The Photo category at CJ features about 30 advertisers. This includes Shutterfly, a service that helps keep families and friends staying connected with personalized photo products like photo books, wall art, home decor, gifts, holiday cards. They pay 2% with an average order value of $60. There's also Snapfish, selling similar products and paying a 4% commission, and Depositphotos which is a stock-photography site paying 20%, just to mention a few.

CreativeLive is a popular website offering over 1,500 online courses, with a focus on photography and video classes. They have close to 2 million students and also offer classes on various other topics like marketing, freelancing, and writing. The affiliate program is part of the ShareASale network and offers a 30% revenue share for purchases made within 30 days.

FlexOffers is a large affiliate network offering over 11,000 programs for various countries. They provide an advanced search function to filter programs based on specific criteria. They also have a separate section for credit card programs that require manual approval and specific qualifications.

Share A Sale is a popular affiliate network with a wide range of programs, especially in fashion, interior, and health-related categories. Though the site design is simple, it is user-friendly. However, finding quality offers can be difficult as low-quality offers often appear at the top. The network provides access to a database of coupons, deals, and gift cards. Many programs have good average PPC values and offer information on order cancellations.

This is one of the best affiliate programs for online courses with their high 40% commission rates. Skillshare features 28,000 online classes that you can promote with a 30-day cookie. Entice signups with their 7-day free trial. With close to 7 million monthly visitors, estimated by SimilarWeb, this is one of the world's leading websites for learning new things.

Skillshare features lots and lots of online courses and classes for learning photography.

Udemy is one of the world's largest websites with online courses, boasting over 210,000 online video courses and close to 100 million monthly visitors according to SimiarlWeb's statistics. They accept affiliates with as little as 500 monthly website visitors or 500 social media followers. Udemy is part of the Rakuten affiliate network. Their 10% revenue share reward for affiliates is a bit on the low side.

There's close to 500 online photography courses available at Udemy at the time of writing this. The best-sellers are between $20 and $100.

Coursera is one of the leading educational and online course websites in the world. According to web stats, their website gets over 60 million monthly visitors. With over 4,000 courses to promote, almost everyone can find some good ones that can do well with their traffic. The commission rates are high, rewarding affiliates with up to 45% share of sales.

You'll find a lot of photography courses to promote with this affiliate program. These courses are created by universites like the University of London, Michigan State University, and others.