Affiliate Network

How to Sign Up for Impact

Impact powers affiliate programs for the biggest names in fitness — Nike, Adidas, Lululemon, and more. This guide covers how to join, get approved by brands, and add your links to links.fitness.

Free to join

1–3 day approval

5–12% commission

Flexible payouts

What You'll Need

Gather these before you start — signup takes about 10 minutes.

Website or social media

An active channel where you create fitness content — your links.fitness page counts

Content niche

Fitness/athletics content relevant to the brands you want

Audience info

Know your monthly visitors, followers, and demographics

Business or personal info

You can apply as an individual or a business

FTC disclosure & privacy policy

Brands check for both during review — links.fitness includes an FTC disclosure automatically

Payment details

Direct deposit, PayPal, or wire transfer info

What is Impact?

Impact (formerly Impact Radius) is a partnership automation platform used by some of the biggest brands in fitness and athletics.
Nike, Adidas, Lululemon, Under Armour, Gymshark, and many other major brands run their affiliate programs through Impact.
Commissions are typically 5–12% on apparel and footwear — often significantly higher than Amazon’s rates for the same products.
Impact is free for publishers (affiliates) to join. You apply to the platform, then apply to individual brand programs.
Payments are flexible — you can choose direct deposit, PayPal, or wire transfer with customizable payout thresholds.

Requirements

You need an active website, blog, YouTube channel, social media account, or mobile app.
Your content should be relevant to the brands you want to promote — fitness content is ideal for athletic brands.
Impact will review your primary promotional channel during signup. Your links.fitness page with products listed works as a qualifying website.
You must be at least 18 years old.
Having an established audience helps with brand approvals, but smaller creators can still get accepted by many programs.

Step-by-Step Signup

1Go to impact.com and click “Sign Up” — select “Partner” (this is Impact’s term for affiliate/publisher).
2Enter your email and create a password to start your application.
3Fill in your personal and business information (you can apply as an individual or a business).
4Add your promotional properties — your website URL, social media handles, or app details. You can use your links.fitness/username URL as your website.
5Describe your content niche, audience demographics, and how you drive traffic.
6Submit your application — Impact typically reviews and approves within 1–3 business days.
7Once approved, browse the Impact Marketplace to find and apply to individual brand programs.
8Each brand reviews applications separately — some auto-approve, others may take a few days.

Tips for Approval

Focus your application on your fitness niche — brands want to see that your audience matches their customer base.
Include your audience size and engagement metrics if possible (monthly visitors, social followers, email list size).
When applying to individual brands, write a personalized note explaining why your audience would be interested in their products.
Start with mid-size brands if you’re new — they’re more likely to approve smaller creators. Build a track record, then apply to the big names.
Make sure your site has an FTC disclosure and privacy policy — brands check for these. links.fitness automatically includes an FTC disclosure on every page, and you can add custom disclosure text in your dashboard settings.
Keep your content authentic and focused. Brands prefer creators who genuinely use and review products over generic promoters.

Getting Your Affiliate Links

Once approved by a brand, go to the brand’s program page in your Impact dashboard.
Use the “Create Link” tool to generate tracking URLs for any page on the brand’s site (homepage, product page, sale page, etc.).
Impact supports deep linking — you can link directly to a specific product rather than just the brand’s homepage.
Each link is unique to you and includes tracking parameters so the brand can attribute sales.
Impact also provides creative assets (banners, text links, product feeds) for many brand programs.

Using Your Links on links.fitness

Copy your full Impact affiliate link from the dashboard (or use the deep link tool to target a specific product).
In your links.fitness dashboard, click “Add Product” and paste the link in the URL field.
Add the product name, description, an image, and assign it to a category (e.g. “Shoes”, “Apparel”).
Your Impact tracking link is served directly to visitors — we never modify or redirect it.
Use your links.fitness analytics to see which products get the most clicks, and check Impact’s reporting for conversion and commission data.