About LinkRivet Research.
How the creator-to-product atlas is sourced, normalized, counted, limited, and held back from search indexing until its release reviews are complete.
Full search release approved All 277 public Research pages are approved for sitemap inclusion and search indexing.
Source and scope
This edition was generated from the creator-aff-link-dataset snapshot dated . It covers 98 selected channels and 83,281 video records dated from 2008 through 2026.
Product labels, link observations, counts, and groupings are LinkRivet analysis, not YouTube metrics. The atlas does not fetch a creator’s current storefront or claim to represent every link they have ever published. It summarizes relationships observed in the frozen source snapshot.
How pages are selected
The generator recognizes supported affiliate-link destinations, pairs them with nearby product labels, removes malformed and generic labels, and normalizes clear variants before aggregation.
- Product threshold
- A normalized product must be connected to at least 5 distinct creators to receive a public product page.
- Creator threshold
- A creator must have at least 1 accepted product relationship to receive a creator page.
- Current output
- 87 creator pages and 186 product pages.
What the fields mean
- Times observed
- The number of accepted product-link observations in the parsed snapshot. It is not a click, sale, or endorsement count.
- Destinations
- The number of distinct linked destination strings represented by those observations.
- Observed range
- The earliest and latest source dates associated with the relationship, shown at month precision on the site.
- Recurring link share
- The share of atlas observations associated with the generator’s recurring-description threshold of 10 videos.
Reading the data
Creator pages publish a stable preview of up to 5 high-observation products and hand off the complete inventory to the signed-in workspace. Product pages publish every creator in the snapshot because those lists are already small enough to read in full.
Link presence is the signal. It is not evidence of recommendation, ownership, endorsement, availability, or commission credit. A higher observation count means the relationship appeared more often in the source material; it does not rank product quality or creator sentiment.
Limitations
- Product names come from source labels and may not identify an exact catalog variation, bundle, color, capacity, or generation.
- Shortened destinations, retailer listings, channel names, and handles can change after the snapshot date.
- Parsing can miss relationships or join an imperfect label to a link; obvious generic labels are filtered, but human review remains part of release approval.
- The atlas is directional research, not a complete census of creators, products, videos, or affiliate programs.
Release controls
Search indexing and sitemap inclusion are controlled by the generated release record. Approval is accepted only when all three reviews are recorded; the generator rejects an incomplete approval command. An approved snapshot still requires an explicit staged cohort or full-index flag.
- Reuse rights
- Reviewed and recorded.
- YouTube policy
- Reviewed and recorded.
- Label inventory
- Reviewed and recorded.
- Search cohort
- 277 of 277 pages.
The full public atlas is included in the XML sitemap. A later snapshot still requires fresh review before its release record is changed. Regenerating from a later snapshot may change labels, page counts, and observations.