What's New In Shopee Affiliate Marketing In 2026? Detailed Guide

2026 is considered a boom year for e-commerce platforms. Shopee's affiliate marketing program presents both a golden opportunity and a significant challenge for entrepreneurs. This is because Shopee is increasingly tightening its review process, making accounts more susceptible to Checkpoint (blocking/restriction).

This article will help you understand the key changes and guide you on how to safely and effectively nurture hundreds of affiliate accounts using CloudPhone technology.

What's New in Shopee Affiliate Marketing in 2026?

In 2026, Shopee will focus heavily on its Creator-Affiliate ecosystem. This makes Shopee affiliate marketing the most attractive online money-making model, especially for those involved in online money-making (MMO) and KOLs/KOCs. Changes in algorithms, tools, and policies require affiliates to constantly update their knowledge to avoid decreased commission performance.

Shopee Increases Commissions for “Priority” Industry Categories in 2026

Shopee's affiliate marketing program is restructuring its affiliate marketing policy in 2026, focusing on boosting priority categories such as Health & Beauty, Home & Living, Consumer Goods, and Shop Mall/Brand Mall. It is predicted that commission rates could increase from 10-25% to attract creators to produce more consistent and high-quality content. This presents a great opportunity for Shopee affiliates to increase their income, especially effective for product reviews, price comparisons, and top-selling lists, helping to optimize conversions and generate sustainable revenue.

Prioritize short video content and livestreams.

In 2026, the Shopee Feed and Shopee Live algorithms will strongly prioritize short video content and livestreams, especially 15-30 second videos, genuine, quick, and direct reviews, livestream sales during peak hours, and mini-videos with direct affiliate links.

This requires Shopee affiliate marketers to focus on building authentic product experience content, simulating real-world usage, and following trends similar to TikTok but linking back to Shopee. Optimizing the right format will help increase CTR, improve conversion rates, and deliver higher effectiveness compared to traditional content formats.

Shopee Tightens Account Verification - Stricter Verification Requirements

In 2026, Shopee's affiliate marketing program intensified its scrutiny of affiliate activities such as logging in from multiple devices, unusual IP addresses, spamming affiliate links, or creating fake interactions using tools. This made many accounts vulnerable to checkpoints, feature restrictions, or permanent bans. Therefore, the demand for managing Shopee Affiliate accounts without checkpoints increased significantly, especially among large-scale MMO teams, agencies, and creator teams. Separating devices, IP addresses, and limiting fingerprint duplication became key factors in ensuring stable and sustainable account operation.

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How to Nurture a Shopee Affiliate Marketing Account Without Checkpoint

For sustainable operation, Shopee affiliate marketers need to ensure their accounts are "healthy," free from checkpoints, suspensions, and activity restrictions. The following is a detailed guide suitable for both individuals and affiliate marketing teams.

Using a Virtual Device (CloudPhone) to Separate Fingerprints 100%

One of the main reasons Shopee affiliate accounts are vulnerable to checkpoints is multiple accounts logging in from the same IP address, using the same device/fingerprint, or switching devices too frequently in a single day.

MoreLogin's CloudPhone/Cloud Device solution effectively addresses these risks by creating a separate virtual device for each account, completely separating fingerprints and preventing IP address or device history conflicts.

As a result, MoreLogin's CloudPhone is especially optimized for teams managing 10-1000 affiliate accounts, efficiently supporting tasks such as adding affiliate links, retrieving campaign codes, managing orders, responding to Shopee Chat, and creating short content with links. Compared to emulators or physical phones, MoreLogin's CloudPhone is a safer and more stable option when running multiple accounts simultaneously.

Use a virtual device to solve the problem.

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Optimizing IP - Proxy to Avoid Shopee Checkpoints

Optimize IP-Proxy to avoid Shopee checkpoints.

Shopee is very sensitive to unusual IP addresses, so IP optimization is crucial when nurturing Shopee affiliate accounts. Affiliate marketers should avoid using too many duplicate Vietnamese IP addresses, prioritize Tier 1 proxies (Residential Proxies), and ensure each account is linked to a fixed IP address that doesn't change frequently throughout the day. Using quality proxies reduces the risk of verification requests, limits login suspensions, and maintains long-term trust, thus ensuring sustainable effectiveness when running Shopee affiliate links.

Building a Natural Activity Schedule to Increase Trust

Nurturing Shopee Affiliate accounts depends not only on the device but also on user behavior to increase trust.

Phase 1 – First 3 days (Building initial trust): Browse Shopee, view products, follow shops, add products to the cart; do not attach affiliate links.

Phase 4–7 days (Organic activity): Add favorite products, comment on a few products, watch videos/livestreams, start embedding affiliate links but avoid spamming.

Phase 7–14 days (Start earning money): Run mini-content, short videos, embed links in social media descriptions, share links to channels or friends.

With a sequential account nurturing process, especially within an MMO team or Creator group, the account survival rate will be high, almost eliminating the risk of checkpoints and ensuring long-term operation when running affiliate links on Shopee.

Conclusion

2026 opens up many new opportunities for those doing Shopee affiliate marketing, especially as Shopee focuses on developing short videos, livestreams, and increasing commissions for priority industries. However, the increasingly strict account verification level requires affiliates to optimize devices, IP addresses, and behavior to avoid checkpoints.

Utilizing CloudPhone, a private proxy, and a natural account nurturing schedule will help you safely and sustainably manage 1–1000 Shopee Affiliate accounts without worrying about account suspension.