Product photography showing items in real-use, aspirational contexts rather than isolated on white or neutral backgrounds. The highest-usage creative asset type among affiliate publishers because it fits editorial content environments — a hiking boot photographed on an actual trail fits naturally into outdoor content; the same boot on a white studio background looks like a product listing, not editorial content. Production standards for affiliate lifestyle photography: editorial publication quality (sharp focus, natural lighting, non-staged composition); multiple orientations (landscape for hero images and blog headers, portrait for sidebars and social, square for Instagram); minimum 2000px wide (to display correctly on high-resolution displays); cleared for editorial use by publishers in the asset usage rights documentation. Contrast with product photography (clean, isolated product shots on neutral backgrounds — useful for publishers creating their own editorial designs) and display ad banners (logo + product + CTA — lowest editorial publisher usage rate).
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