Originally Posted by thommy

all stuff that worked great in the 90s and beginning of the new millenium.
but in compare to the revenues that are realized today with free porn these are peanuts with a net profit that is far under 10% (many of them less than that).

and there is not a lot space for many of them.

so only the very big boys survived - and some of the will when they finally start to adapt to the new affiliate market.

this new affiliate market does not depend on one or a few websites that have today more and tomorrow less traffic to a special interest. they will not be dead when google does not like them anymore because there will always be some site at no1. and this site usually is there because they are focus on traffic generation and not on market this traffic.

a classic affiliate is nailed to the niche he build up in years.
a professional media buyer jumps on any trend with a mouse click.

affiliate biz as we know it from the 90s is not even recognized in the market.
if it all goes nobody would mention it because the traffic for it will still be there and thousands of buyers will jump on it within minutes.

selling porn is just what is was always - 0,29% of the users budget. it WAS like that and it is still like that - just shared through MUCH more people as it was in the end of the 90s
and the beginning of the 21st century. the only difference is that in the meantime the purchase power of the new additional users is MUCH smaller that the purchase power of the few users that we dealt with in the 90s.