Open one of your posts with Amazon product images. They still look fine, and they’ll keep looking fine today. Nothing breaks the moment you read this. But Amazon made a change to how your fixed images stay fixed, and you should know what it means.
What you bought, and what we delivered
You bought the Amazon Broken Image Fix as a one-time job: we found your broken Amazon product images, replaced them with working ones, and backed it with two years of support and no annual fee.
When you bought it, we told you the fix would keep working for as long as Amazon kept their own system running. That system is what powers it.
What changed
On June 30, 2026, Amazon retired their Product Advertising API. That’s the connection that let your site pull current Amazon product images and keep them fresh. Amazon shut it off for everyone and replaced it with a new system called the Creators API.
Why this touches your images
Amazon doesn’t allow anyone to save their product images. Their rules require those images to be served straight from Amazon. So the Broken Image Fix was never a one-time patch sitting in your database forever like our other fixes. It works by keeping a current Amazon image on file for each product and refreshing it through Amazon’s connection.
When Amazon retired that connection, the refreshing is what stopped. Not the images themselves.
If you do nothing
Your images keep showing. We keep the last good version of each one on file, and your site keeps serving those. For most posts, you won’t notice anything for a while, at least.
The catch shows up over time. As Amazon changes products, swaps photos, or drops items, some of those saved images go stale and break. With the old connection gone, they can’t repair themselves anymore. It’s gradual, not a switch that flips.
How to keep them refreshing: Live Fix
Keeping your images refreshing from here means moving to Amazon’s new connection, the Creators API. Live Fix handles that for you and keeps them current, the same way the fix did before. It’s $11.99 a month or $100 a year, and the first month is free.
One requirement comes from Amazon, not us. The Creators API only works if your Amazon Associates account qualifies for it (roughly ten sales in the last thirty days). You can check whether your credentials work in about a minute on our test page.
This runs on the Amazon plugin you already have. You don’t need to install the full Blog Fixer plugin to keep your images refreshing, just Live Fix.
If you do run the full Blog Fixer plugin, Live Fix keeps that updated and supported too, with new fixes over time. The full rundown is on the Live Fix page.
Already have Live Fix?
You’re covered. To switch refreshing back on, update your Amazon plugin to the latest version, then add your Amazon Creators credentials. Our setup guide walks through getting your credentials from Amazon, testing them, and adding them to the plugin.
What if my Amazon account doesn’t qualify yet?
Anyone can get Amazon’s credentials. The real question is whether your account qualifies to use them, and Amazon’s bar is roughly ten sales in the last thirty days. You can enter your credentials in the plugin now either way.
While your account is below that threshold, nothing refreshes, so there’s no reason to pay for Live Fix yet. Your current images keep showing from our cache. Some may break over time as Amazon changes products, and those can’t repair themselves until your account qualifies.
Amazon’s threshold is a rolling thirty-day window. Once your account qualifies, add Live Fix and refreshing picks up automatically from the credentials you already entered. You can check whether yours work anytime on our test page.
What to do next
If your Amazon images matter to your posts and your income, Live Fix is how you keep them working. If they’re a small part of your site, you can leave things as they are and come back to this if you ever notice an image break.
Either way, nothing is broken today.