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Originally Posted by Evil Chris
Kristin, thanks for chiming in. I'm still re-reading your concept of saying your traffic brokers are sales reps for your products. I see how obvious this is, but maybe too obvious? Is there something more to what you're saying there?
MILLIONS to figure out that VOD isn't for pre-paid traffic? Who was in charge of that department? Are they still employed by you? Send them to me. I have a bridge in Brooklyn that I'm selling cheap.
BTW re: Gamelink. You're incorrect unless you're re-defining what VOD is/means as they do not charge per minute on their mobile platform.
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On the sales rep, they make a commission on a deal they bring you, just like my reps. If the deal works, great we renew, onto the next sale.
If it weren't for Mark at GTS, Kevin may have never let us buy mobile traffic. It was one convo with Mark and we started buying, a lot. Who was out there getting the sites? Mark and the GTS team.
As for VOD, we followed the AFF model per the direction of the owner and it was for the release, so we had bought exits, skins, etc all for one big launch. On top of the movie cards and some other off traffic sources, we spent way more than we recouped on those deals. Live and learn, what worked for dating didn't for VOD and we saw that with VOD a lot.
I have had bum deals with every product we have pushed. When the VOD ones blew, I blamed the broker. It wasn't their fault. The same broker I yelled at and swore off because of Yappo is now my largest mobile broker. It was us, not them.. VOD wasn't meant for prepays purely because of the no recurring.