Affiliate marketing is being reshaped by AI-powered search engines that prioritize contextual answers and conversational results over traditional link rankings. To succeed, affiliates must optimize for answer engines, structured data, and high-trust, experience-driven content that AI systems are more likely to cite and recommend.MarTech contributor Adam Weiss has published an article explaining how affiliate marketing powers AI search and creator commerce.He says, “2026 will be an inflection point for U.S. marketers. Facing high economic uncertainty from... [...]