The affiliate model is not going anywhere soon. It may be changing, but is still the backbone of generating a vast amount of different types of traffic, which is needed for any program to exist and prosper. Oversaturated programs are having conversion problems, but programs that are not yet oversaturated are doing fine especially with good affiliates that produce traffic from multitudes of diverse methods. Porn nor the affiliate model are still strong. They may have changed, and continue to change, but they certainly are not dead.
