Do any of your current Sponsors support Adware like Zango? At least one probably does, depending on your particular definition of "support". Whether you think adware companies like Zango are the future of contextual advertising or the biggest evil on the Net, all of us are affected in some way.
Companies like AFF and SexSearch appear to be the biggest supporters of Zango in Adult due to their apparent widespread targetting of competitive sites that don't target them as well as general adult keywords. This tends to invalidate the already dubious "I better rape your sister before someone else does" or "just protecting our sites" lines of reasoning.
They are however far from the only Adult companies who choose to associate themselves with Zango. I downloaded Zango a few days ago and have spent some time playing with it. I suggest you do the same if you wish to quickly confirm most or all of what I have experienced.
Sometimes it's hard to determine whether it is the Sponsor or an affiliate doing it due to Sponsors using affiliate ids or affiliates attempting to hide cookies.
So far it seems there are three main areas of involvement a Sponsor can have with Zango:
(1)ZANGO POPUP WINDOWS
Bidding on popup windows themselves or allowing affiliates to do so. These steal sales by replacing cookies and/or putting a different url in front of the surfer of either the same site or a competitor.
This can be broken down into degrees of nastiness. The worst being Companies who target other Sponsors who don't target them and the "best" being those Sponsors who just bid on their own site name to protect it, although the end result is still the same as regards the Webmaster, that is, a lost sale.
(2)ZANGO TOOLBAR LISTINGS
Bidding on Zango toolbar tabs themselves or allowing affiliates to do so. Though much less obtrusive than a popup, they do still steal your traffic by tempting the surfer with relevent links to leave your site by.
(3)ZANGO SEARCH ENGINE LISTINGS
Bidding on results in Zango's search engine themselves or allowing affiliates to do so. Zango and other adware feeds many PPC search engines with its stolen traffic. When a user types a search into the Zango toolbar or even into the browser window, the search is redirected to
http://resultsmaster.com which is Zango's fake search engine. So if you have good organic SERP's or even Adwords listings, the surfer will never see them. Zango consolidates these various PPC listings into one results page branded under Zango and any surfer will no doubt see a direct connection between Zango and the results shown.
Seeing a listing on the Zango search engine page does not necessarily mean that a Sponsor or Affiliate deliberately supports Zango. They may not be aware that some of the traffic is coming from Zango. The fact remains that they are supporting Zango by accepting Adware traffic that has been laundered thru' a PPC SE and if they continue to do so or allow their Affiliates to do so after seeing their results on http://resultsmaster.com when doing searches, then that support becomes deliberate.
Since there is currently no detailed list of Adult Sponsors who support Zango I've started my own. I've broken down the Adult Companies I have seen so far in the last few days on Zango into the three categories as outlined above. Some Sponsors appear in more than one category. I haven't included the many Mainstream companies that attempt to steal traffic from Adult searches.
Like I said earlier, you don't have to take my word for it and don't ask me to produce screenshots/video for every url listed. Install Zango and verify it yourself or at least look for your Sponsor/site at
http://resultsmaster.com
(1)ZANGO POPUP WINDOWS
Adultcash.com
AdultFriendfinder.com
Cams.com
Cybererotica.com
Ifriends.com
SexBankRoll.com
SexSearch.com
Webcams.com
(2)ZANGO TOOLBAR LISTINGS
AdamEve.com
Adultcash.com
AdultFriendfinder.com
Cams.com
Cybererotica.com
Freepornlessons.com
HornyMatches.com
Ifriends.com
SexBankRoll.com
SexSearch.com
TheBestporn.com
Webcams.com
(3)ZANGO SEARCH ENGINE LISTINGS
Adultcash.com
AdultFriendfinder.com
AdultPaymaster.com
Backdoorcash.com
Camcruisers.com
Cams.com
Cybererotica.com
Freepornlessons.com
HornyMatches.com
Ifriends.com
Iwantu.com
Mtree.com
PussyCash.com
QuickBuck.com
SexBankRoll.com
SexSearch.com
TrafficCashGold.com
Wegcash.com