Last updated: March 2026
VerdictLab earns money through affiliate partnerships. When you purchase a product through one of our links, we may receive a commission at no additional cost to you. This page explains exactly how that works, what it means for our recommendations, and what it doesn’t change.
How We Earn
We participate in the following affiliate programmes:
Amazon Associates Programme — As an Amazon Associate, VerdictLab earns from qualifying purchases. When you click a product link on our site and buy something on Amazon — whether it’s the product we linked to or something else entirely — we may earn a small referral fee. Commission rates vary by product category, typically between 1% and 4.5% for health and personal care items.
ClickBank — We also promote select digital and physical health products through ClickBank’s affiliate marketplace. Commission structures vary by product and are set by the individual product vendors.
We may add additional affiliate partnerships over time. This page will be updated accordingly.
What This Means for Our Content
The short answer: nothing changes about how we review and recommend products.
We purchase the products we test with our own money. We evaluate them using a standardised testing protocol that measures real-world performance data — noise levels, battery life, build quality, and more. Our recommendations are based on those results, not on which product pays the highest commission.
We recommend products we wouldn’t recommend if the affiliate programme didn’t exist. The commission is a consequence of the recommendation, not the reason for it.
What We Don’t Do
We don’t accept free products from manufacturers in exchange for reviews. We don’t adjust our ratings based on commission rates. We don’t present manufacturer claims as our own findings. We don’t use fake urgency, fabricated scarcity, or pressure tactics to push purchases.
If we haven’t tested a product ourselves, we say so. If a product has drawbacks, we list them — even when we’re linking to it.
How to Identify Affiliate Links
Every article that contains affiliate links includes a disclosure notice near the top of the page, before the first affiliate link appears. The notice looks like this:
If you’d prefer not to use our affiliate links, you can search for the product directly on Amazon or the relevant retailer. We’d rather you get the right product through a non-affiliate link than the wrong product through ours.
Questions
If you have questions about our affiliate relationships or want to know whether a specific link is an affiliate link, contact us at hello@verdict-lab.com.