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Originally Posted by DWB
Some of the biggest affiliates ARE the tubes now.
Fact of the matter is, smaller affiliates are being pushed out. Programs are not going to stop putting up tube content, where they get solid sales, to accommodate smaller affiliates. That just doesn't make sense from a financial standpoint.
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Thise kind of threads always reach page 2
Most traffic comes from tube simply because is in tubes. But most of tube traffic is sold via adverts that the programs (and some affiliates) pay per impression/click or prepaid weekly/monthly spot, at the program's (or some affiliate) risk of non conversion. A tube rarely is directly an affiliate, it prefers (and succeeds) to sell for sure cpm / prepaid spot and let others risk.
I run cam program, not photo/vid program, so I can speak only for cams. I do keep the small affiliates! Most of my affiliates do less than $50 a day and that's ok, some do $50 a month or less. The tubes traffic I can access only by media buying at my risk, which in most cases cost more (lower conversion) than pay the affiliates per results. Also to handle media buy campaigns (remove all the spots and banners with low conversion as soon as detected on exoclick, trafficjunky, juicy-ads, ero-ads, traffichip , trafficholder etc.) it cost lots of time which is money again. Better to have lots of small affiliates, and pay them only for results (per sale, per free signup), than buy to tubes, I think the same it is for pics/video programs too, unless I miss something (exclude programs owned by tubes, I mean brazzers promoted on pornhub etc.).
The issue with affiliates it is the time spent in finding and neutralising the cheaters/carders - this is a pain esp. for CPA (8 out of 10 new affiliates are cheaters!), but not more a pain than manage media buying campaigns in my opinion, even if it could be some well done (tube) media buying could be more profitable than standard payouts to affiliates - honestly most of the time I can't get better results from tube media buying myself, than what I pay affiliates - believe it or not