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Originally Posted by bossku69
the affiliate model will slowly start to dissipate, but not completely go away... yet most of the people here will be fucked.
new porn always has to be made, but its just now finding a buyer. after a while people will get tired of beating off to the same content and start looking elsewhere, but right now there is an extreme surplus of content out there, so wait about 3-5 years until all the companies now are out of business and new ones roll in.
it will only take one big player in the industry to change things, as in limit how you can get and view their content and who can promote it.
my  affiliates will have to purchase content from providers to put on their sites (tubes, tgps, blogs, etc.) and that will wipe out about 98% of all webmasters, then it will leave the seriously players left. |
the problem is the credit cards and processing, anyone who doesnt know the leesh on processing is getting short is not a webmaster.
credit cards have huge profits off "legitimate" processing online now, most mainstream businesses have joined the crunch of the net. credit cards are getting rid of anyone or anything "shady". and no matter how much people want it porn subscriptions will never be mainstream.
kind of like what happened with paypal and adult is slowly happening with credit cards and adult. they no longer need porn to have huge profits. mainstream is a much safer bet when it comes down to risk and reward. only the big guys will survive.
as the leesh gets tighter programs will be forced to watch their affiliates even more. the excuse of "it was just an affiliate" does not go far these days. this is going to force the part time affiliate out the door.
this is in porn anyway.
what is crazy to me is that the "tube" sites are more mainstream now compared to the paysite model. you ask regular joe smchoes they will tell you about their favorite porn site. i dont remember that ever with paysites.
as more content becomes available networks are going to have to realize they need to focus inward. and that is exactly what they will do. only offering their content to a select few affiliates with long term solid traffic.