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How to Earn Money With the Creative Market Affiliate Program

Creative Market Last updated: March 28, 2024 · 4 min read
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On June 6, 2022, we introduced changes to our Affiliate Program. This article has been updated to reflect those changes.


Creative Market provides thousands of creatives around the world with an opportunity to earn money doing what they love. Our shop owners are the most talented people we know and they surprise us every single day with amazing new products.

If you’re a Creative Market fan, you probably already know all this. What you may not know though is that anyone can make money with Creative Market, even if they don’t have a shop! All you have to do is share your favorite products and when people buy them, you’ll earn a chunk of that purchase. Read on to learn more about how it works or head over to our Affiliate Program page to get started.

How Does The Affiliate Program Work?

By now, you’re interested in this partner thing, but need to know the facts, so let’s cut to the chase. You’ll earn a 15% cut of any new customer’s first purchase, and a 5% cut of any returning customer’s purchase made within 30 days of clicking on your referral link. It’s as easy as that. How much you earn depends on how much you share. Some of our more successful partners are earning thousands of dollars every single month.

Joining the Program

Signing up for the Affiliate program is super easy. Over at the Affiliates page, click on the button that says “Become an Affiliate.” From here, you’ll see a window that asks a few simple questions.

Why Do I Have to Answer Questions?

We use this as a way to filter out nasty spammers, so don’t sweat the answers too much. We’re not looking for The Grapes of Wrath, just a sentence or two on how and why you’ll be sharing Creative Market with the world. As long as you’re a real person with genuine intentions, you should do just fine.

Tip: If you’re a Creative Market shop owner, mention it in your application.

Once you’re in, what’s next? Obviously, it’s time to share some products on your social channels or blog. To do this though, you have to make sure you’re using your partner link.

Fortunately, we help you out with this by making sure that your Affiliate Program information is baked into every one of our sharing buttons all across the site. For instance, at the bottom of every product screenshot, you should see a strip of buttons like this:


If you’re signed up for our Affiliate Program, we’ll track any links that you share with these buttons.

To create a partner link from any page on Creative Market, simply append “?u=username” to the URL (where “username” = your personal Creative Market username).

Share in Style With Our Banners and Buttons

In addition to simple link generation tools, we offer our partners some great visual/code resources to help you spread the word. Check out our Affiliate Program page for some great banners that you can drop into the sidebar on your site.


If you want to embed a specific product onto a web page, check out the following tool at the bottom right of every product page. Here you can generate an embed code for a nice little widget, a buy button, or a simple link, all with your affiliate tracking attached.

How Do I Know if Someone Buys Something?

After you’ve been regularly sharing links for a few weeks, it’s time to check in and see if that cash is pouring in. To do this, go to your sales page and filter down to “referral commissions.”

Get To It!

The information above is everything you need to get started with our Partner program. To sum up: join the program, share products that you love, and earn cash. It’s a pretty sweet perk!

Now that you know all about how our Partner program works, it’s time to head over to the Partners page and get started. Check back soon for some great tips on how our top partners are finding success.

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26 Comments
  • I'm already in :) & i have notice people are really happy to join CM & buy awesome products. i have referred lots of members on another marketplace & when i compare those marketplace with CM you don't believe it CM is over 400% faster then others. CM is really give us a big opportunity to Learn - Earn - Share - Earn ;) Thank you so much CM! bdw i have referred 100 Members & counting ;) 11 years ago
  • 47 until now :) 11 years ago
  • 175 and slowly counting :) I will say it's pretty tough to make real money at just 10%, but with the 70% shop commission it's fair. 11 years ago
  • I hope you made this article as a guest post on my website: http://designrshub.com SAD. My first two months is good as I have already sold 42 items as a partner. 11 years ago
  • Cool! I have a question... where is the twitter icon? I would like to share some great items! 11 years ago
  • We've just started promoting Creative Market via http://adsy.me (our platform to create micro websites in a snap). We will create micro websites for Creative Market bundle and share them with our community. I already LOVED the product as a customer, I'm pumped up to join the partners. Kudos guys for your platform! 10 years ago
  • I like the full year part for the referred customer. Great way to attract promoters. 10 years ago
  • Anonymous
    First week 3327 Clickthroughs 9 Referrals 2 Sales $2.70 Earned 9 years ago
  • Is there any way to get the old widget code? I installed the creative market wordpress plugin however, it strips out my affiliate link. Thanks! 9 years ago
  • Hi, how can I add and widget to my site? All I see is just promote link and Pin button, thanks! :) Can't wait to share all the great products 9 years ago
  • Trying to increase more referrals! :) Thanks CM. 9 years ago
  • We have started to promote Creative market's products on our website www.Pixlov.com 9 years ago
  • Thank you one question please can i withdraw money that earned from my referral links ? Or should i use my earning on purchases !! 9 years ago
  • I do not see share buttons on the product pages. What can the problem be? Thanks! 9 years ago
  • Good Way.i like it. 9 years ago
  • I'm having the same problem as Marian Designs! No share buttons! 9 years ago
  • Is it possible to share just the main URL for the site and still receive commissions, or must it be a share from a specific product page using share buttons? I'd prefer to share just the main URL and let people peruse the site and make their own choices, as I would rather not force on them just one product. 8 years ago
  • nice article.. 8 years ago
  • can someone make sense - I understood that I should use the https://creativemarket.com/vladwel?u=vladwel link, but I really need somewhere point the link to creative market home page. Searched all the Internet and did not find. Is the following link works either: https://creativemarket.com/?u=vladwel Please let me know. Thanks. 8 years ago
  • Nice to get money,... https://crmrkt.com/jyyMWG 8 years ago
  • So far I've earned over $50 in the partner program. I have found that most of my referrals come from my Facebook product page and Pinterest. I also created a collection of my favorite products on my creative market page and I imagine that some referrals are migrating that way as well. It works if you put in the effort. I also promote my pins on Pinterest for very little $$ to increase exposure to my pins. So far, I'm very pleased with this program and I've been at it for just a few months. 7 years ago
  • saya senang sudah menjadi mitra di sini tpi saya masih bingung gimana cara ngeshare nya,, hanya lìnk utama saja kah yang saya share? 7 years ago
  • How to create short links for affiliate url. http://www.mockuppsd.net/ 7 years ago
  • I don't see a lot of sellers of color... 6 years ago
  • Copy the Pinterest link form page after some days it showing cookie expiry please refresh the page. What was the issue 6 years ago