Who the chat suits
Owners of projects and teams
Owners of media buying teams, affiliate programs and tooling for arbitrage.
Heads and BD
Head of Affiliate, account and BD managers at affiliate programs and ad networks.
Media buyers
Traffic buyers: Facebook, Google, TikTok, UAC, in-app, push, native, SEO.
Webmasters and affiliates
Solo webs and small operations: gambling, betting, nutra, dating, finance.
Industry PR and marketing
PR people from networks, affiliate programs, conferences and trade media.
What gets discussed
- Traffic sources and media buying: setups, creatives, ban evasion, ad accounts, proxies.
- Affiliate programs and CPA networks: terms, payouts, caps, delays, replacements.
- Tooling: trackers, cloaking, antidetect browsers, payment rails, crypto, developers.
- Reputation and introductions: who works with whom, who to approach in a given vertical.
- Industry events: conferences, season reports, case breakdowns.
This is a conversation between participants: opinions, rumours and personal experience live apart from verified facts. Check what you hear about affiliate programs, networks and brands against the AffPapa catalogues, and accusations against open sources and the operator complaints record.
How to join
- Open the Telegram invite with the button below.
- In the Telegram window press Join.
- From there follow the conditions the chat itself shows when you join.
We take no application form, ask for no payment and vet nobody. Entry is decided by the chat.
House rules
In the chat's own words, from its description
Three strikes apply: overheat and you cool off for six hours.
Politics and advertising are an instant ban.
Taken from the chat's public Telegram description and rendered by meaning. The full and current rules are set by the admins inside the chat — open the chat.
Channels and related material
AffPapa keeps an open catalogue of industry Telegram channels, NeTGStats: 379 channels, audience and dynamics from tg.observer, refreshed every 4 hours. Cuts of the catalogue:
We publish no separate list of public chats: chat invites go stale fast and we cannot vouch for each one. If you know a live public chat on the topic and are ready to vouch for it, write to [email protected].
Useful on AffPapa
These are reference catalogues, not a dispute resolution service. We do not arbitrate disagreements between market participants.
Frequently asked
Who is the chat for?
For people who make money on traffic arbitrage and work with CPA: media buyers, webmasters and affiliates, team leads, affiliate and network managers, industry BD and PR.
How do I open the invite?
Press "Join the Telegram chat" — the Telegram invite page opens. From there follow the conditions the chat itself shows when you join.
What gets discussed?
Traffic sources and media buying, affiliate programs, terms and payouts, tooling for arbitrage, the reputation of companies in the market and introductions, industry events.
Where do I find industry channels?
In the open NeTGStats catalogue: https://affpapa.org/netgstats — audience, topic, dynamics and categories. There are separate cuts for verified and risky channels.
Where do I look up affiliate programs and CPA networks?
In the affiliate program catalogue (https://affpapa.org/en/nepartners) and NeNetworks (CPA networks). For operator brands there is the NeBlask index and the NeRating complaints record.
