Affiliate Disclosure

Publishing costs money. This page explains where ours comes from, so you can weigh what you read here knowing exactly what our incentives are.

Affiliate links

Some articles on Daily AI Brief may contain affiliate links. If you follow one and sign up for or buy a product, we may receive a commission from the vendor.

It never costs you more. The price you pay through an affiliate link is the same as the price you would pay going direct. The commission comes out of the vendor's margin, not your pocket.

How we mark them

Where an article contains affiliate links, we say so clearly in the article itself, near the top and before the first such link — not only on this page. You should never have to guess whether a link earns us money.

Affiliate links also carry the appropriate rel attributes in the markup, so search engines can identify them as paid links.

What a commission does not buy

This is the part that matters:

• It does not buy coverage. We choose what to write about on editorial grounds. A company cannot pay to be included in a round-up.
• It does not buy a ranking. Where we rank tools, the order reflects the criteria stated in the article. A higher commission does not move a product up the list.
• It does not buy a good review. We recommend against products we think are poor, including products we have an affiliate relationship with. We have no obligation to any vendor to be positive.
• It does not buy approval rights. No vendor sees an article before publication, and none can require a change after it.

Our Editorial Policy sets out the independence rules in full.

Sponsored content

If we ever publish content that a third party has paid for, it is labelled "Sponsored" prominently, at the top of the article and in any listing where it appears. It is kept visually distinct from editorial coverage. We do not publish paid articles disguised as reporting, and we do not sell links inside existing editorial articles.

Review units and free access

Vendors sometimes provide free or discounted access to a product so we can test it. Where that happens we say so in the article. Free access buys a review; it does not buy a favourable one, and it carries no approval rights.

Advertising

Where we display advertising, it is clearly distinguishable from editorial content. Advertisers have no influence over what we publish and no advance sight of it. Buying an advertisement does not buy coverage.

Our own interests

Where anyone involved in an article holds a financial interest in a company discussed — shares, employment, advisory work — that interest is disclosed in the article. Where the conflict is serious, someone else writes the piece.

Why we tell you all this

Disclosure is required by advertising regulators, including the Federal Trade Commission in the United States and the Advertising Standards Council of India. But we would do it anyway: a recommendation is worth nothing if you cannot tell whether it was bought. If you ever feel a piece here reads like an advertisement, tell us through the contact page — we want to know.

Questions

Ask us anything about how we are funded through the contact page, or at contact@aidailybrief.in.