Originally Posted by CyberClaire

I see it like this.....

At one point affiliates had the lions share of traffic so hooking up as many affiliates was the name of the game.......but now the traffic is held by a few huge tubes and other major traffic centres such as traffic brokers ...and of course not to forget more paid advertising slots available on such places as google..youtube etc...and even twitter are trying ad slots.....

Bottom line is its easy and less time consuming for program owners to simply place an order, buy huge amounts of traffic and thats it done.....

I think the affiliate model will always stay around but not in a huge way as it once was.