Originally Posted by WonderWoman

Speaking of Girls Gone Wild, we definitely have built a major business of mainstream and are attempting to duplicate those efforts on the net. THere are quite a few barriers you run into. Mainly, most companies with major investors or venture capital firms dont want any relation to adult. For every 3 people that pick up your ads, 1 turns them down.

The mainstream affiliate market is a different beast altogether since it is set up as a marketplace almost. Affiliates pick up the ad if they want it, mainstream or adult. People that may turn you down in one companies division will forward your info to another more "secret" division. Case in point... AdBrite - AVN Ads, Burst Media - Burst Direct, AOL - Searchboxxx, Right Media - REmix Media, etc

All creative definitely has to be clean so lower click thrus. It is also more expensive to try to buy mainstream traffic and back it into your CPA then it is with adult. If you run the numbers on your avg conversion % you will see that you cant really afford to pay that much on a CPM/CPC basis at times.

Hopefully this is helpful. Hit me up on ICQ if you need anymore info.