Hey Geniuslinker,

Memorial Day weekend isn't just the unofficial start of summer, it's a big retail weekend, and a serious opportunity for content creators and affiliates. Major retailers like Amazon, Wayfair, Home Depot, and Walmart roll out some of their most aggressive sales of the season, which means your audience is already in buying mode before the long weekend even begins.

The move? Get ahead of it. Deal-focused content like "Best Memorial Day Sales" roundups tend to pick up strong search traffic about two weeks out.

Here are the categories worth building content around:

• Outdoor entertaining - portable grills, coolers, lawn games, speakers
• Food and drink - BBQ rubs, drinkware, charcuterie sets
• Home decor - string lights, party supplies
• Travel gear - luggage, camping equipment, beach bags
• Mattresses, appliances, and electronics - higher commission potential and one of the best sale weekends of the year for these categories.

Now is the time to start planning your content, lining up your links, and making sure you're set up to capture that momentum of the holiday weekend.

ow is the time to start planning your content, lining up your links, and making sure you're set up to capture that momentum of the holiday weekend.
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Goodbye Kit.co

As you may recall in 2025 kit.co was acquired by Kit (formerly known as Convertkit). As of May 11 they have terminated the service. For anyone still using kit.co links you may want to check out Amazon Storefronts. It’s probably one of the quickest and easiest ways of sharing gear guides, studio setups and other groups of products. And as you’ll read below, Amazon have made them even more widely available.

Good News About Amazon Storefronts

Amazon has made a start to significantly expanded its Influencer Storefront ecosystem, moving beyond “just influencers” to allowing all creators in the Amazon Associates Program. An ​Amazon Storefront ​allows creators to build personalized, curated shops, sometimes called "boutiques" or "mini-malls"-to showcase favorite products and earn commissions on sales.

How It Works for Creators

• Customization: Upon acceptance, you gain a personalized URL (e.g.,www.amazon.com/shop/XXXX) and can customize your page with a profile picture, banner, and curated lists.
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• Content Generation: Creators populate their shops with Idea Lists, shoppable photos, and videos. You are encouraged to create content that serves your niche, such as unboxings or tutorials. You can use content you have created elsewhere, just make sure it follows content guidelines.
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• Monetization: You earn commissions when customers purchase products through links on your Amazon Storefront. The customer is further down the sales funnel, so make sure your content is the last step before the purchase.

Storefront Developments & Trends

• Advanced Curation & Sorting: Storefronts now feature enhanced sorting and filtering options, allowing followers to search for products by category, recency, or seasonal relevance, making them act more like curated shopping websites.
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• Integration with Canva: Through the Amazon Creators app on Canva, you can design static content and directly publish shoppable photos, such as collages, to your storefront.
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• Focus on High-Intent Content: The most successful storefronts in 2026 are moving away from merely listing products toward providing "destination-worthy" content, including in-depth video reviews, product comparisons, and themed idea lists.
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Link-Maxxing Your Prime Day Links

Prime day is known throughout the affiliate industry to be the high point of an Amazon Associate’s yearly earning potential. Amazon promotes loads of products ahead of Prime Day, giving you the creator, extra time to prepare the best recommended products to your audience. The problem most creators face is how to efficiently organize and accurately measure their links performance for campaigns like Prime Day.

Enter ​Geniuslink Groups​, our answer to every affiliate organizer's dream, and a way to measure your Prime Day campaign performance. Group metrics can provide a closer look at links you promote throughout the Prime Day event. Giving you more insight over product selection, audience behavior, and targeting; all key drivers for improving commissions.

Don’t put off Prime Day Prep 2026 any longer. Read up on our ​Groups page knowledge base​ to learn how to begin using Geniuslink Groups. Have questions? Reach out to our support team ​help@geniuslink.com​.
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Geniuslink Out and About

This weekend some of the Geniuslink team are in Portland for the annual Independent Book Publishers Association conference. The event kicks off today are we are looking forward to connecting with authors and publishers. We'll have more updates in our next newsletter. If you are attending the IBPA conference, stop by booth 117 and say hello.

Until next time,

Jesse & Team Geniuslink