Your best videos link to programs that shut down

The workflow

1. TriggerYouTubeVideo descriptions and view counts
2. Evidence
   FirecrawlA check of every affiliate linkWayback MachineWhen each program closed
3. Artifact
   What you hand overA list of dead affiliate links ranked by views, with a live replacement and its commission rate for each.
4. Contact
   GliderFinds the creator, with a verified work email and a phone
5. Message
   Send itFrom your own mailboxes, evidence attached

The play in seven steps

1. 01

   Pull every link in their descriptions

   YouTube

   What you pull

   The creator's videos: views in the last 90 days and every affiliate link in the description.

   Why it matters

   Recent views mean the links are still being clicked. That is the income at stake.

   Example

   140 videos · 2.1M views in the last 90 days · 380 affiliate links

2. 02

   Check which links are dead

   Firecrawl

   What you pull

   Each link followed to its destination: working, redirected to a homepage, or dead.

   Why it matters

   Dead links earn nothing. A redirect to a homepage often loses the tracking too.

   Example

   31 links dead or redirected · across 11 top videos

3. 03

   Find when each program closed

   Wayback Machine

   What you pull

   Archived copies of each program's page, showing when it closed.

   Why it matters

   It shows how long the creator has been losing money, which makes it concrete.

   Example

   Largest program closed 8 months ago

4. 04

   Build the replacement list

   Your artifact

   What you build

   The dead links ranked by video views, with a live replacement program and its commission rate for each.

   Why it works

   The creator can fix the top videos in an afternoon and see the result in their earnings.

   Example

   11 videos · 31 links · replacements at 4% to 12% commission

5. 05

   Check before you send

   Only suggest replacements for the same product or a true equivalent. Creators protect their audience's trust.

6. 06

   Find the creator in Glider

   Glider

   Search for

   CreatorChannel managerBusiness manager

   Why them

   The creator owns the descriptions. Larger channels have a manager who handles affiliate deals.

   What you get

   A work email and a direct phone, with the email verified before it goes into a sequence.

7. 07

   Send the evidence, then run the first test

   Eleven of your most-watched videos, with 2.1M views in the last 90 days,¹ link to affiliate programs that are dead or redirect to a homepage,² the largest for eight months now.³ Here they are ranked by views, with a live replacement for each and its commission rate.⁴ Want the list?

   • Facts from the data (the number is the step)
   • What you built for them
   • One small ask

   Why it works

   It shows money they are losing on their own videos, with the fix ready. Nothing to buy.

   First test

   Thirty creators, every dead link confirmed by hand.

   Success looks like

   Five creators join the network out of thirty.

The sample message is hypothetical and its numbers are illustrative. Verify every claim, date and rule before sending.

Sources used

The three sources this play names. Each links to the other plays that use it.

YouTubeVideos, descriptions, comments and transcripts3 playsFirecrawlAny website as clean text or structured fields28 playsWayback MachineHistorical snapshots of any web page3 plays

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