COVID-19 and a global pandemic have upended the travel industry. Travel bloggers and YouTubers have been hit hard as a result. It will be a while before travel and tourism return to normal and prosperity. However, we must continue to monitor opportunities and merchants that have high earnings potential. Skyscanner is one such company that interests many affiliate marketers.

Skyscanner is a travel search engine and comparison site. It scans the internet and pulls prices for flights, hotels, and car rentals from thousands of online travel agencies and airlines worldwide. Skyscanner wants to show the best deals and cost savings. The Trip.com Group–a large online travel agency in China–owns Skyscanner.

PayPal is an OF (Original FinTech). Long before Wise, Square, and Stripe, PayPal supported online payments, money transfers, and digital wallets in the late 1990s. Dubbed the “PayPal Mafia,” many former PayPal founders and employees founded and developed other technology companies, including Tesla, LinkedIn, SpaceX, Affirm, Slide, Kiva, YouTube, Yelp, and Yammer. Elon Musk is one of the notable members of the group.

For all that YouTube is, and isn’t, it’s still a potentially lucrative method to monetize content. To support your goals and help you thrive/survive, TubeBuddy offers a robust app for planning, strategizing, and growing a channel. Its free browser extension (Chrome, Firefox, and Opera) features many tools for productivity, keyword research, tags, bulk processing, analytics, and more. Its web app provides dashboards and charts for various video and channel metrics. Many features are free to access, while others are available through paid plans. TubeBuddy is a YouTube certified app.

For affiliate marketers, success partly depends on the commission rates they’ll earn. For instance, I tend to promote high-paying merchants that pay at least 20 percent or $75 per sale. If I sell $100,000 worth of goods, I’ll earn $20,000. Alternatively, if I focus too much on programs that pay low or single-digit commission rates, it will be tougher to reach my revenue goals. For example, at a 5 percent commission rate, I would make $5,000 per $100,000 sold. In this post, let’s review the best high-paying affiliate programs for beginners and experienced marketers.