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signupdamnit · 03-13-2014, 06:05 AM

Yep those reps are just doing their job. In the end all they have to do is enough to get the owner to continue paying them while at the same time not making a lot of waves. Not to say there aren't good reps out there. For a sponsor if they can get 500 affiliates to send them 1,000 uniques a month they have it made even if the individual affiliates all have to be on food stamps because they aren't making anything. It's a totally different game for the sponsor who also benefits from poor tracking. If a sponsor puts all their videos on all the tubes and is only making a few sales a day from millions of eyes lets be realistic you probably aren't going to do much better with your traffic. You have to be realistic about how much you can scale.

Dating and Cams are what is left for the adult affiliate but there exists the same problem as with paysites. There are free alternatives so at minimum this means over time profits will decrease (we need to learn our lesson from history). Two other issues exist. One, the tubes control a huge portion of sales here. Maybe 80-90%. Two, considerably less competition than what existed in the golden age of the paysites. Both add up to affiliates being more likely to get a worse deal than they otherwise might get due to lack of competition for affiliates.

I'm doing well with dating right now. It's not perfect but it's about what paysites were doing in 2007 and 2008 as far as ratios. In five years or so I'm sure it will be just as bad.

03-13-2014, 06:05 AM
signupdamnit Confirmed User Industry Role: Join Date: Aug 2007 Posts: 6,697	Yep those reps are just doing their job. In the end all they have to do is enough to get the owner to continue paying them while at the same time not making a lot of waves. Not to say there aren't good reps out there. For a sponsor if they can get 500 affiliates to send them 1,000 uniques a month they have it made even if the individual affiliates all have to be on food stamps because they aren't making anything. It's a totally different game for the sponsor who also benefits from poor tracking. If a sponsor puts all their videos on all the tubes and is only making a few sales a day from millions of eyes lets be realistic you probably aren't going to do much better with your traffic. You have to be realistic about how much you can scale. Dating and Cams are what is left for the adult affiliate but there exists the same problem as with paysites. There are free alternatives so at minimum this means over time profits will decrease (we need to learn our lesson from history). Two other issues exist. One, the tubes control a huge portion of sales here. Maybe 80-90%. Two, considerably less competition than what existed in the golden age of the paysites. Both add up to affiliates being more likely to get a worse deal than they otherwise might get due to lack of competition for affiliates. I'm doing well with dating right now. It's not perfect but it's about what paysites were doing in 2007 and 2008 as far as ratios. In five years or so I'm sure it will be just as bad. __________________ You don't like my posts? Put me on ignore or fuck right off. I'll say what I want. Last edited by signupdamnit; 03-13-2014 at 06:07 AM..