Offer owner, looking into black hat marketing

Hey y'all, happy to be here! I've been in digital marketing for about 5 years, but on the white hat and ecom side for the most part. I ran a nutraceutical offer and currently run a 6-fig/month antivirus one. Been using affiliate networks for this but I'm trying to learn how to replicate exactly what the affiliate publishers do so that I can do it myself and branch out

I'm 99% sure that the affiliates are just spamming lists that they probably bought. I don't know the first thing about what methods they use to get these lists, how loyal the list leads are or if they're just like "who tf is emailing / texting / calling me", etc. etc. so I'm here to learn

Welcome to BHW, you will certainly learn a lot of useful knowledge here.

hey phoenixwolf3, welcome to bhw! solid that youre already runnin a 6 fig antivirus offer. most of that affiliate list stuff is just cold email/sms blasts off scraped or bought lists tbh, not much secret sauce. you tryin to build your own list from scratch or just buy access to one?