The best affiliate programs for gaming YouTubers.
Most "best gaming affiliate programs" lists push chairs, mice and headsets that pay you once. For a gaming YouTuber there is a quieter, better option: game server hosting, which pays recurring commissions every month a viewer keeps their server.
Why hosting beats gear for YouTubers
Your "how to make a server" and modpack videos keep getting views for months, sometimes years. A viewer watching them is ready to buy a server right then, so the link converts. And because hosting is a monthly subscription, one evergreen video can pay you every month instead of just once. That is the difference between a one-off gear commission and a recurring income stream.
The programs worth promoting
These game hosts run open affiliate programs and convert well for creators: BisectHosting, Shockbyte, Apex Hosting, GPORTAL, Nodecraft and PebbleHost. Cover a specific game? Start with your niche: Minecraft, Rust, ARK or Palworld.
Get set up right
Put your referral link in every relevant video description, and tag it per video so you can see which upload earns. Gear and game keys make good complements, but let hosting be the recurring backbone. Once the commissions come in from several hosts, they scatter across a dozen dashboards, which is the problem AffiliateLinksHub solves.
Track it all in one place: open your dashboard, or see the full list of game hosting affiliate programs and the way the tracking works.
See also: best programs for streamers and recurring affiliate programs for creators.