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The deals your audience wants. The commerce business you own.
New exclusive deals every week, sold on your site under your brand. We hand-pick the best brands, negotiate every offer, and run the store: checkout, service, fulfillment, and payouts. You keep the audience, the data, and the upside.
Real deals. Bought on your site. We run it.
What your audience gets
Deals worth tuning in for. Bought right there on your site.
Every week we go after the best brands in the business, and only a few make the cut. Limited quantities, so they sell out. And the checkout is on your property, in your brand, not on a retailer's site.
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Exclusive
Only the best brands make the cut. We negotiate every offer ourselves.
Weekly
New drops every week. Fits a show calendar, an editorial calendar, a newsletter cadence.
Limited
Quantities are capped. They sell out. That's the point.
Why owned commerce
Keep your affiliate program. Add a way to shop directly on your site.
Affiliate pays you a commission and sends the customer somewhere else. A store on your own site keeps the sale, the customer, and a lot more of the margin. Keep both running. They do different jobs.
25 to 35%
more revenue
Than comparable affiliate programs, based on the operating team's history.
A first-party customer relationship
Build a product email list with every purchase, subject to the partnership's agreed data terms.
Authority on your domain
Search and answer-engine value compounds on your property instead of a retailer's.
A live read on demand
See what your audience buys and turn that signal into a stronger direct-sales pipeline.
One operating system.
Every moving part.
- 01Curate
We go after the best brands and negotiate every offer. Only the strong ones make it in, and nothing goes live without your sign-off.
- 02Drop
Deals go up on your site. Your hosts, newsletters, and social do what they already do.
- 03Sell
Customers buy on your property. We're behind checkout, tax, payments, service, and shipping. Your team doesn't touch it.
- 04Settle
Brands get paid. You get your share. Every order reported, down to the SKU.
For publishers
A commerce business, without building one.
Dropline stays behind the scenes and runs the operating layer.
A new revenue line
Monetize audience trust without adding more advertising.
No capital or headcount build
The platform and operating team already exist.
Performance economics
Nothing to pay up front. Commercial terms are agreed for each partnership.
Live within 45 days
Once scope and approvals are set, the first drop can be live within 45 days.
Built around your audience
Categories, programming, channels, and creative follow the way your audience behaves.
12+ years of operating proof
Dropline is backed by a team with more than a decade operating media-driven commerce at scale.
$1B+
Commerce operated
100+
Active brands per week
5,000+
Products per week
50
States covered for merchant-of-record tax compliance
We've been running one of the biggest media-driven deals programs in the country for years. Same team, same playbook, now on your site.
Proven platform, custom property
Not your logo on our template.
We shape the business around the outcome: revenue, first-party data, a single show, an advertiser product, or stronger subscriber retention.
Categories, brands, and explicit exclusions
Cadence timed to programming and editorial calendars
A storefront in your brand system, domain, site, or app
Email and SMS through your systems or ours, with your identity
On-air, host, newsletter, and social integration
Exclusive deals and co-branded advertiser drops
Revenue structure and reporting cadence
Reporting mapped to the metrics your business uses
You approve and promote. We do the rest.
No one on the publisher's team needs to touch merchandising, customer service, or fulfillment.
Dropline runs
- Merchant of record, transactions, and platform liability
- Payments, fraud, chargebacks, and disputes
- Sales tax calculation, collection, and remittance in all 50 states
- Brand sourcing, contracts, onboarding, offers, and inventory
- Curation, merchandising, copy, photography, and creative
- Storefront build, hosting, and maintenance
- Order management, fulfillment coordination, shipping, and tracking
- Customer service in the publisher's brand voice
- Returns, refunds, and exchanges
- Email and SMS operations and compliance
- Brand payouts and publisher revenue remittance
- GMV, orders, AOV, sell-through, attribution, and revenue reporting
The publisher brings
- Audience and distribution
- Approval rights over every brand and offer
- Promotional placement across its channels
FAQ
Straight answers.
How do you protect a publisher's brand?
The publisher sets the guardrails and retains approval over every brand and offer. Categories, creative, claims, and placements are shaped around its standards.
How is customer data handled?
Data access, consent, and permitted uses are documented in each partnership agreement.
Who handles returns and customer service?
Dropline handles returns, refunds, exchanges, and customer service in the publisher's brand voice.
How long does a publisher launch take?
Once scope and approvals are set, the first drop can be live within 45 days.
What does it cost to get started?
Nothing up front. Dropline works on performance, with commercial terms agreed for each partnership.
Where do the brands come from?
Dropline curates: we hunt down the best brands, contract them, and shape each offer. Publishers approve what appears.
Do my customers leave my site to buy?
No. Checkout runs on your domain, site, or app in your brand. Dropline operates it behind the scenes.
Can this run alongside my affiliate program?
Yes. Affiliate keeps doing what it does. Dropline adds an owned storefront for the deals your audience buys directly from you.
Publisher partnership
Build your drops business.
Tell us what you are trying to build. We will come to the conversation with an operating point of view.
Have a product?