u/AdubThePointReckoner

...It's comically useless

I just don't understand why they limit reporting. It really seems to benefit nobody.

https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/17105501

Looks like a brand new integration, haven't played with it enough to see how well it works. But being able to place Associat tags "in video" as opposed to in descriptions sounds promising.

Anyone ever hear anything about what the Archived tab is in Studio? From what I can tell, no way to move things in or out of it.

Born in 1965 so you weren't really exposed to the 60's turmoil. No chance of getting drafted to Vietnam. You're a kid in the 70's where your parents were largely dealing with stagflation and high levels US/USSR conflict anxiety. Then 1980 hits, you're now 15 going into one of the best decades to be a young person. All kinds of tech was starting to come on the scene and your formative years largely exist in a period of optimism in America's future. You hit young adulthood/finish college and hopefully start saving right when the US economy starts a 20 year run of unprecedented growth. You're still young enough to enjoy the peak run of 90's/00's comedy. From the Jim Carrey era through the Judd Apataw hits.

2000 hits and you're starting to get to mid-career but your nest egg is already sizeable thanks to a decade of strong growth. The dot-com bubble bursts and you take a hit, but it doesn't really matter since you're still 25-30 years from retirement. 9/11 happens and the wars that follow, but you watch that from the sidelines as you're already too old to enlist.

2008 rolls around and there's another crash, but yet another one you watch without too much concern. The house you bought in 1990 is still worth more than you paid for it, even after the correction. Same story with your retirement, you take a temporary hit but keep buying at fire-sale prices. By 2011, you're already further ahead financially than you were in 2007.

By 2020, your primary residence is paid off and worth 3x it's purchase price. Then Covid hits. You're 55, not young, but not old enough that you're in a high-risk category so you mostly escape unscathed. You're mid-late career without a house payment so you're piling money into savings, right as the market is about to double again. You're old enough and have enough money saved that you don't live in day to day fear that one wrong Tweet or out-of-context video clip will end your career.

It's now 2026, time to retire. Kids have moved out, you get to downsize the house, cashing out what is likely 100% equity at this point and start drawing on that massive retirement portfolio that's now earning more per year than your last job paid in salary.

Sunny day here in the PNW. Out at a busy park, everyone with their SO's and/or dogs is pretty quiet. Conversation not really audible from more than a few feet away. Not the parents: "OOOOOH LOOK A DOGGY!!!" "WEEE WEEE WEEE" "BUTTERFLY!!!" all spoken at a volume appropriate for addressing someone on the other side of a stadium.

Anyone else?

I'm posting this to hopefully answer this question once and for all. Maybe we could add this to the pinned new user FAQ. Now, on to the answer:

As of March 2026, Amazon no longer provides Associates/Influencers reporting that indicates what products are actually selling. When you look at the "Linked Products Report," you're seeing sales referred by the product, not necessarily sales of that product itself.

For example, if I link to product A, but the customer ultimately purchases products B, C and D, your linked product report will show 3 "sales" for product A(subject to the 4 sale minimum). This means, that if product A has a 4% commission, yet B, C and D are 1, 2.5 and 3, your report will actually display 2.16%.