Methodology

How CPA Radar collects offers, how often it checks, and what it calls a change. The same rules run the alerts, the digest emails, the Telegram channel and the Trends page.

1. How the data is collected

Each network is read from its own source, in this order of preference: an offer feed or affiliate API the network provides; a connector for the tracking platform the network runs on (Everflow, Affise, CAKE and others), through an approved affiliate account; or, for a network with its own panel, that panel through an approved account. Logged-in reads go one at a time per account, at a polite pace, during working hours. We do not scrape other directories or buy data.

Every check is compared with the last one. A difference becomes a dated entry in the offer's history: payout raised or cut (per payout type and country), status changed, cap changed, a country added or removed, the offer new, gone or back. History entries are never deleted or edited.

2. How often each network is checked

• Every 4 h: Admitad, CPAGrip, dr.cash
• Daily: Actionpay, AdBlueMedia, AdCombo, ClickBank, CrakRevenue, LosPollos, Market Health, MaxBounty, OGAds, Revitol, Zeydoo

Alerts go out within an hour of the check that found the change. They are not real-time notifications from the network. When a check fails, the last good data stays up and the network page says when it was last checked; an offer is never removed because a check failed.

3. What counts as a change

• A payout raise or cut of at least 10% and at least $1. On payouts under $5, at least 20% and $0.10. Smaller moves stay in the history but don't alert.
• A rate withdrawn: a payout type or country the offer stopped paying.
• Paused, when the pause still stands at the next check.
• Gone: an offer that was live for at least 7 days and is no longer listed. On a network whose removals often come back, a removal counts only after 48 hours.
• A cap change, and a country dropped that stays dropped.
• A COD approval-rate drop that lasts, on offers that publish an approval rate.

If one check removes 25% or more of a network's live offers (and at least 5), we treat it as a source problem: nothing from that network goes out until the next check confirms it. Each account gets at most 10 instant alerts a day; the rest go into the next digest. These rules have applied since 16 October 2026.

4. When an offer is called dead

An offer is dead when it has been missing from a network's successful checks for long enough. Some sources return only part of their catalog on each check, so they get a longer wait before an offer counts as gone. Until then the offer shows “verified live N days ago” rather than a guess.

5. Scores and reviews

A network's reliability score is the average of its approved reviews from independent affiliates, out of 100. It appears only once 3 or more such reviews back it. Reviews from staff, test accounts and the operator are never shown or counted. Badges such as “verified payments” come from reviews with a payment proof a moderator checked.

Payment never changes a score. Sponsored placements are labelled “Sponsored” and change nothing else: not a score, a ranking, an alert, a review or a search result.