The Oink Amazon Influencer Level Up: What’s Actually in the 6-Week Course

Four days ago, Amazon joined the YouTube Shopping Affiliate Program. Creators can now tag Amazon products directly inside long-form videos, Shorts and livestreams instead of dropping a link in the description and hoping.

YouTube ran an experiment on this in July. Videos using product tags got over 110% more clicks than the same videos using description links. (This is big news.)

Thirteen days after that announcement, Rob launches a 6-week course whose Week 5 is about cross-posting your Amazon videos to YouTube.

That timing isn't a marketing angle. I checked the dates because I assumed it was.

The basics, up front

The Oink Amazon Influencer Level Up is a live 6-week course starting Thursday, September 10, 2026. It's taught by Rob, who most people in this space know as Fizz, and who built the Oink extension.

Here's the pricing, which is the unusual part:

You are	You pay	You get
Already an Oink Pro subscriber	$0 extra	The whole course
Not a subscriber	$29.99	One month of Oink Pro + the whole course
Pro Yearly ($249.99/yr)	Included	The whole course

No new tier. No upsell. The course isn't sold separately at all.

That last detail is the one worth pausing on. Most people packaging six weeks of live teaching would sell it as a $297 product and run a launch. Rob made it a perk of a $29.99 subscription. The pitch on his own page is blunt about why: “We're not charging our members extra to learn the tool they already pay for.”

You can register here, and AIPBONUS takes 10% off, which puts a non-subscriber's entry at about $27.

Read this before you get excited

This course will not get you into the Amazon Influencer Program. (But you can join it for free.)

I want that stated plainly near the top, because the pricing is going to attract people it isn't built for. Rob's own page is direct about it:

“Level Up will not get you into the Amazon Influencer Program — and it's not a course about applying. It's built for creators who are already accepted and already approved for on-site commissions.”

Two separate gates there, and people miss the second one:

1. You're accepted into the Amazon Influencer Program.
2. You're unlocked for on-site commissions, meaning Amazon lets your product videos appear on actual product pages.

If you're not through both, this isn't your course yet. And getting in genuinely isn't trivial. Here's someone in r/Amazon_Influencer three weeks ago:

“I've been trying to get into the Amazon influencer program for 4 mos and always get this. I've set up new emails. Tried various TikTok accounts. I got a new phone.. created a a new Amazon account.”

Four months of rejection. That person would get nothing out of six weeks on carousel optimization.

So: check your status first. Rob links a walkthrough video on the course page showing exactly where to look. Do that before you pay anything.

If you're already in and already unlocked, keep reading, because the rest of this is built for you.

The full 6-week outline

This is the actual curriculum from the course page, not my summary of it.

Week 1: Action Week

Your wash-rinse-repeat daily plan

• Daily Creator Connections cross-checks
• Product research and outreach
• Mining your order history
• Fixing broken videos, then making more
• Consistently creating new content

Starting with the daily rhythm rather than theory is the right call. Most people in this program don't have a strategy problem, they have a “what do I do on Tuesday” problem.

Week 2: Products

Good choice vs. bad choice, before you ever hit record

• Where new products come from
• How to get more products
• Which types of products matter most
• Full Creator Connections tutorial, and making more money with it

The product decision is the highest-leverage thing in this whole business, because it happens before you spend any time filming. A bad product choice costs you the entire production cost of the video.

Week 3: Making the Video

Why we make videos in the first place

• What actually makes a good video
• Making videos that convert, and relate to the customer
• How to make more videos in less time

Note the framing. “Videos that convert” rather than videos that look good. On Amazon those are very different goals, and the second one doesn't pay.

Week 4: Competing for Clicks

Winning the carousel is a competition

• How to attract people to click your videos
• What a custom thumbnail is, and why they matter
• Titles that create clicks

This is the week I'd personally show up for. The carousel is zero-sum: your video is sitting next to other people's videos on the same product page, and the click goes to one of you.

Week 5: Cross Posting & Maintenance

• Cross posting your videos to other countries, and what to avoid
• Cross posting to YouTube, and what really matters
• Cross posting to social platforms
• Fixing broken videos that aren't making you money

And this is the week that got a lot more valuable four days ago. More on that below.

Week 6: Advanced Strategies & AMA

• Mostly live Q&A
• Your questions answered in real time
• A few advanced strategies to finish

Live AMA plus replays throughout, so the sessions aren't lost if you can't make one.

Why the YouTube timing actually matters

Week 5 was probably always going to be a solid module. Then on August 27, Amazon and YouTube changed what it's worth.

Before: you cross-posted an Amazon product video to YouTube and put an Associates link in the description, where roughly nobody scrolls.

Now: eligible US creators can tag the product natively in the video, in Shorts, and in livestreams. There's also auto-tagging that scans your existing uploads and tags eligible products in videos you already posted.

That last bit is the interesting one for anyone with a back catalogue. Videos you made months ago can become shoppable without you touching them.

The eligibility stack is real though, and it's four things at once: YouTube Partner Program membership, enrolment in the US YouTube Shopping Affiliate Program, an active Amazon Influencer or Associates account, and your channel linked to that account.

So it's not automatic, and it's US-only for now. But if you're an Amazon influencer already sitting on a pile of product videos, a course module on YouTube cross-posting landed in a very good two-week window.

I'd be more skeptical if Rob had announced this course after the news. He didn't. The course page and the six-week structure were set before Amazon and YouTube made their announcement.

Who's teaching it

Rob, or Fizz, depending on which corner of the community you know him from. He describes himself on the course page as “not a guru selling a dream,” which is the kind of line that usually precedes a guru selling a dream, so here's what's actually checkable:

• Amazon influencer since 2023
• Five figures a month, every month since late 2024
• Built Oink, which has 10,000+ downloads and 4,000+ Pro subscribers

The Oink extension has a 5.0 out of 5 rating on the Chrome Web Store. That's a perfect score, though it's worth being straight that it's across 25 ratings, which is a small sample. I dug into this properly in my full Oink review if you want the longer version.

The thing I'd actually weight here isn't the rating. It's that he's teaching a workflow inside a tool he built for his own workflow first. Most course creators teach a system and then point you at whatever software exists. This is the reverse order, and it shows up in the curriculum: every week maps to something you can execute inside Pro rather than something you go home and figure out.

Is it worth $29.99?

If you're already paying for Oink Pro, there's nothing to decide. It's free, you're in, you just need to register so he knows where to send things.

If you're not a subscriber, the real question isn't whether six weeks of live teaching is worth $29.99, because obviously it is. The question is whether Oink Pro is worth keeping after month one, because that's the actual product you're buying.

Two honest notes on that.

First, the course is a genuinely strong reason to try Pro this month specifically. One month at $29.99, minus 10% with AIPBONUS, gets you six weeks of live teaching. The course outlasts the month you paid for.

Second, don't confuse a good deal with a good fit. If your storefront is small and you're not yet running Creator Connections at any volume, a lot of Weeks 1 and 2 will be teaching you to automate work you don't have much of yet. That's still useful groundwork. It's just slower to pay back than the pitch implies.

What I'd avoid is signing up on price alone and then not showing up. Live courses reward attendance. A replay you never watch costs the same as one you do.

Frequently asked questions

When does the Oink Level Up course start? Thursday, September 10, 2026. It runs for six weeks, with live sessions plus replays.

How much does the Oink Amazon Influencer Level Up cost? Nothing extra if you're an Oink Pro subscriber. $29.99 if you're not, which covers one month of Oink Pro and full course access. Pro Yearly at $249.99 includes it too. Code AIPBONUS takes 10% off.

Is the course sold separately? No. It's only available as an Oink Pro perk. There's no standalone course product and no higher tier to buy.

Do I need to already be an Amazon influencer? Yes, and this is the important one. You need to be accepted into the Amazon Influencer Program and unlocked for on-site commissions. The course explicitly won't help you get in or get approved.

Do I need to attend live? No. There are replays, and Week 6 is a live AMA. You'll get more out of it live, particularly the Q&A, but it's not required.

Who is Fizz? Rob, the creator of the Oink extension. He's been an Amazon influencer since 2023 and reports five figures a month since late 2024. Fizz is the handle most of the community knows him by.

What if I'm already using another tool like Viral Vue? The course is built around executing inside Oink specifically, so you'd want Pro to follow along properly. If you're weighing the two tools generally, I compared them in my Viral Vue review.

So should you sign up

Check your on-site commission status first. That's not a formality, it's the actual gate, and it takes two minutes.

If you're through it and already on Oink Pro: register. It costs you nothing and the only way to lose is to not show up.

If you're through it and not on Pro: $29.99 for one month plus six weeks of live teaching from someone doing five figures a month in the program is an easy yes for a month's trial. Decide about month two in October, once you've seen whether the workflow fits how you actually work.

If you're not in the program yet, or not unlocked for on-site commissions: save your money for now. Get in first. This course will run again, and it'll be worth more to you when you have a storefront to apply it to.

Register for the Level Up course. Free for Pro subscribers, $29.99 otherwise, 10% off with AIPBONUS.

Full disclosure: the Oink links in this post are affiliate links, so I may earn a commission if you subscribe through them, at no extra cost to you. The course outline above is reproduced from Rob's own course page, and pricing was verified there on August 31, 2026. The YouTube Shopping details come from TechCrunch and YouTube's official blog, both dated August 27, 2026.