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      "id": "learn_r1213_viral_video_licensing_what_it_is_r2_viral_video_licensing_what_it_is_1213_1",
      "category": "Getting Started",
      "title": "Viral Video Licensing What It Is: the unit of work, the payment flow, the platform fee cut, and the account requirements. Open the help centre or creator",
      "summary": "A session is measured as beginning when a customer clicks through a Special Link and ending when 24 hours elapse, the customer places an order for a non-digital product, or the customer clicks through a different Special Link.",
      "body": "A session is measured as beginning when a customer clicks through a Special Link and ending when 24 hours elapse, the customer places an order for a non-digital product, or the customer clicks through a different Special Link.\n\nWhat affiliate-program.amazon.com actually says:\n\n“during a single session, which is measured as beginning when a customer clicks through that Special Link and ending upon the first to occur of the following: (x) 24 hours elapse from that click, (y) the customer places an order for a Product, other than a digital product (as determined in our sole discretion; for example, an Amazon software download or items sold under the name “Amazon Music,” “Amazon Shorts”, “eDocs”, “Amazon Prime Video”, “Game Downloads”, “Amazon Coin”, “Kindle Books”, “Kindle Newspapers”, “Kindle Blogs”, “Kindle Newsfeeds”, or “Kindle Magazines”) (a “ Digital Product ”), or (z) the customer clicks through a Special Link to an Amazon Site that is not your Special Link (a “ Session ”)”\n\nNote: Shift Board (topic queue): page from a source IMAGO's verified knowledge already used, fetched by the program, quote picked by bifrost:kilo/kilo-auto/small, checked word-for-word on the page by the program; tier/confidence set conservatively - the verify gate decides",
      "source_type": "research",
      "source_link": "https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/help/operating/policies",
      "last_verified": "2026-10-24",
      "reliability": "STRONG PRACTICE",
      "source_tier": "B",
      "source_publisher": "affiliate-program.amazon.com",
      "evidence_quote": "during a single session, which is measured as beginning when a customer clicks through that Special Link and ending upon the first to occur of the following: (x) 24 hours elapse from that click, (y) the customer places an order for a Product, other than a digital product (as determined in our sole discretion; for example, an Amazon software download or items sold under the name “Amazon Music,” “Amazon Shorts”, “eDocs”, “Amazon Prime Video”, “Game Downloads”, “Amazon Coin”, “Kindle Books”, “Kindle Newspapers”, “Kindle Blogs”, “Kindle Newsfeeds”, or “Kindle Magazines”) (a “ Digital Product ”), or (z) the customer clicks through a Special Link to an Amazon Site that is not your Special Link (a “ Session ”)",
      "volatility": "medium",
      "from_batch": "1213-viral-video-licensing-what-it-is-r2",
      "subject": "Viral Video Licensing What It Is",
      "topic": "the unit of work, the payment flow, the platform fee cut, and the account requirements. Open the help centre or creator",
      "applies_to_country": "any",
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