Paved
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Paved is a marketplace connecting newsletter creators with brands looking to sponsor content
Paved pays 5% commission on all transactions generated by the referred publisher/advertiser, for 6 months, through a program you apply to directly. There is no reward for the referred customer. Verified 24 Aug 2026 from Paved's own published material.
Paid when
Referred user signs up via a unique referral link and becomes an active user…
Payment delay
No fixed delay disclosed; commissions are subject to risk analysis and Anti-Money Laundering review before crediting
Minimum payout
$1,000 threshold; commissions below it carry over to successive months until reached (paid out on agreement termination regardless)
Click counts for
60 days: referred customer must sign up via the referral link within 60 days of the initial click-through, or the click is not credited. (Commissions then accrue for 6 months after signup.)
Your commission
5% commission on all transactions generated by the referred publisher/advertiser, for 6 months
Customer incentive
Nothing
The terms that decide whether you get paid
Paid whenReferred user signs up via a unique referral link and becomes an active user transacting advertising on the platform.
Duration5% commission on the referred customer's earnings/spend for the first 6 months after they sign up
Attribution window60 days: referred customer must sign up via the referral link within 60 days of the initial click-through, or the click is not credited. (Commissions then accrue for 6 months after signup.)
Payment delayNo fixed delay disclosed; commissions are subject to risk analysis and Anti-Money Laundering review before crediting
Payment scheduleIncluded with the publisher's regular Paved earnings payment schedule (not a separate payout run)
Minimum payout$1,000 threshold; commissions below it carry over to successive months until reached (paid out on agreement termination regardless)
Payout formPaid in USD, folded into the publisher's standard earnings payout (not a separate cash/PayPal payout)
Self-referralNot allowed — no commissions for referring your own company or platforms/businesses you own
Important
Paved is primarily a sponsorship marketplace where creators get paid CPM or flat-rate per issue, not a commission program — but it separately runs a real referral program paying 5% on a referred publisher/advertiser's transactions for 6 months, uncapped, averaging roughly $1,380 per active referral. Minimum payout, approval time, and payment frequency for the referral program are undisclosed.
Separately, Paved also operates its core sponsorship marketplace: newsletters list on the platform, brands select and purchase sponsorships, and creators are paid CPM or a flat rate per issue — not a commission and not covered by the referral mechanics above.
What you would be selling
A 5% uncapped commission for 6 months on a referred publisher's platform transactions, distinct from Paved's core CPM sponsorship marketplace.
Paved is one brand with 1 product, bought by different people. What one converted customer is worth cannot be worked out for any of them: that needs a rate, a plan price and a commission window, and this program does not publish all three.
Not published
Not every figure needed is published.
content repurposing
Newsletter Sponsorships
Ad marketplace connecting brand sponsors with 3,000+ premium email newsletters reaching roughly 253 million subscribers — offers self-serve campaign booking across multiple publishers, centralized invoicing/payouts, and open/click/conversion analytics per campaign.
Bought by Advertisers sponsoring newsletter audiences at scale
Everything Paved publishes about how the commission is earned and paid. A term shown as not researched is one Paved does not publish, not one that does not apply.
How it pays
Route inExisting publisher shares their unique referral link; referred party must sign up for Paved using that link
Duration5% commission on the referred customer's earnings/spend for the first 6 months after they sign up
Attribution window60 days: referred customer must sign up via the referral link within 60 days of the initial click-through, or the click is not credited. (Commissions then accrue for 6 months after signup.)
Payment delayNo fixed delay disclosed; commissions are subject to risk analysis and Anti-Money Laundering review before crediting
Payment scheduleIncluded with the publisher's regular Paved earnings payment schedule (not a separate payout run)
Minimum payout$1,000 threshold; commissions below it carry over to successive months until reached (paid out on agreement termination regardless)
Payout formPaid in USD, folded into the publisher's standard earnings payout (not a separate cash/PayPal payout)
Self-referralNot allowed — no commissions for referring your own company or platforms/businesses you own
Must you be a customerReferrer must be an existing Paved publisher; referred party must be a new customer who has never had a Paved account. Paved may reject any applicant at its discretion
ClawbackYes — Paved may recoup paid commissions tied to customer non-payment or refunds by deducting from the publisher's earnings (fraud/chargeback-related refunds are excluded from re-crediting)
Where it paysCredited to the referrer's Paved publisher earnings balance, not a separate account
ApprovalNo formal pre-approval or fee to join; "No application needed, no fees." Paved reserves the right to disqualify commissions earned through fraudulent, illegal, or overly aggressive marketing
Restrictions
·Referral program currently restricted to existing publishers as referrers
·Minimum payout, approval time, and payment frequency undisclosed
·One-time 6-month window, not lifetime recurring
Verified
Read from Paved's own published material on . Figures change without notice — quote this date alongside any figure.
Sources
Paved Official ↗
Attribution window, payout terms and approval time researched on August 26, 2026.
Referral program (5% commission for 6 months, distinct from the sponsorship marketplace) researched and added August 26, 2026 from paved.com/referral-program.
Product descriptions rewritten on August 26, 2026.
Checked paved.com/referral-program and paved.com/partner-terms on September 27, 2026 for any incentive offered to the referred party; neither page states one, so the customer incentive slot is recorded as read and silent rather than assumed nonexistent.
Read, and not published
Paved’s own material was read on these and says nothing. That is the answer: a program that does not state a term is not bound by one.
Customer incentive
Citing this page
Ancaster, “Paved affiliate terms”. Verified 24 August 2026. https://ancaster.io/offers/paved
How this was verified
Verified
Read from Paved's own published material on . Figures change without notice — quote this date alongside any figure.
Who buys this
Tagged at product level, not brand level. Paved's products sell to authors & publishers, creators.
Who else does this
Other advertisers with a product in the same category as Newsletter Sponsorships.
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The re-verification note
We read Paved's terms on 2026-08-24. Programs change a rate, a cookie window or a payment threshold without announcing it — we re-read them and send one note a week saying what moved.
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