Affiliate Program

Netflix has an affiliate program that pays a bounty for every new subscriber directed to us by an affiliate. Here's how to join:

1. View the LinkShare / Netflix presentation. This is strongly recommended; it will show you what data is needed and how to use LinkShare.
2. Become a LinkShare member.
3. Send your LinkShare username and API consumer key to our API Affiliate team to let us know that you want to be approved as a Netflix affiliate.
4. Wait for pre-approval notification from our API affiliate team.
5. Become a Netflix affiliate at LinkShare.
6. Create and insert affiliate links in your site or application.

If you're pointing directly to the Netflix sign-up page, simply use the pre-generated URL you recieved from the LinkShare site.

If you're pointing to any other page on Netflix and you want credit for your referral, you must construct a redirect URL.

Constructing LinkShare Redirect URLs

You need to send LinkShare our offer ID and a few other things, along with your affiliate ID and the URL you want your user to eventually see.

Here's an example, given on multiple lines for clarity:

http://click.linksynergy.com/fs-bin/click?subid=0&offerid=135505.1&type=10&tmpid=1796
&id=YOUR_AFFILIATE_ID
&RD_PARM1=YOUR_URL_ENCODED_TARGET_URL%3Fmqso%3D80022097

Replace YOUR_AFFILIATE_ID with the ID you received from LinkShare when you signed up. (Sorry, testing with a random ID won't work.)

Substitute an URL-encoded link to a page on Netflix for URL_ENCODED_TARGET_URL. If you were linking to Chinatown, for instance:

http://www.netflix.com/Movie/Chinatown/374030

... it would look like this:

http%3A%2F%2Fwww.netflix.com%2FMovie%2FChinatown%2F374030

Remember to add %3Fmqso%3D80022097 to the end of the encoded URL to help us track affiliate activity, and to send all of this on a single line.