About

We advertise inside the show.

9Q is an advertising company. We place banners and offers into video and livestreams, then pay the streamers and operators who actually run those productions.

What the viewer sees

A lower third or a corner bug carries a short link on 9q.is. The first path segment is a code. A second segment, when present, is one brand. 9q.is/K7M2/acme is K7M2’s link for Acme. It is not a single concatenated token.

What the streamer gets

Signup lives on affiliate.9q.is, not on the short-link root. A new affiliate receives an internal id and a fixed 4-character public code. Their banner URL is 9q.is/ plus that code. The default commission is 50% of 9Q’s profit on the conversion — the amount the network pays 9Q, not the shopper’s gross. The rate can be changed per affiliate.

What we log

Every redirect records a click without waiting for the database write to finish. The record stores the time in UTC, the code, the offer when there is one, a click id, IP address, country and city when a lookup header is present, user agent, a simple device and OS read, the referrer, and Accept-Language.

When the destination is an Impact tracking URL, the redirect adds subId1 (streamer code), subId2 (brand), subId3 (live, direct, or overlay), and sharedid (the click id).

Extra domains

9q.is is the primary short host. Other short domains can be added as hostnames later. They follow the same rules: /site/… is the application, and every other first segment is a code.