Multi-Level Marketing: What the Evidence Shows
47% of US MLM participants lost money and 27% broke even. What surveys, FTC cases and experiments show about multi-level marketing and who pays.
47% of US MLM participants lost money and 27% broke even. What surveys, FTC cases and experiments show about multi-level marketing and who pays.
File photo: silhouettes of a group of people at sunset. Photo: Sue Huan (Unsplash), via Wikimedia Commons, CC0. In the news · July 2026 A Victorian parliamentary inquiry made 39 recommendations after reviewing 317 submissions and hearing from survivors of groups such as the Two by Twos and Geelong Revival Centre. It proposes outlawing group-based…