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Originally Posted by marketsmart
sorry nathan, but you imo you are using this to your advantage to put your competition out of business and the companies that feel obliged to do a rev share with you for you using their content seem to be in the mindset that something is better than nothing..
i liken your model to a superpower that tells third world countries "let us use your weapons to destroy your enemies or we will destroy you"...
i know that you have worked hard to do deals with programs so that you can use their content legally, but that methodology does not make things right..
your company has played a big part in destroying the affiliate model and only time will tell if its successful in the long run..
on the flip side, companies have sold their affiliates down the river for self preservation and although i would expect no less from an industry that prides itself on fucking over other people, i have to say i am disappointed by the quick wave of the white flag..
anyone that does business with any of the programs that has partnered with manwin is a complete idiot and deserves to get what they ultimately will get.... 
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marketsmart,
Our tubes are promotional sites. Like any other free site out there, any smaller tube or any TGP or MGP or link list or top list or whatever. We just happen to own the bigger ones. You can find that unfair all you want, this is simply a fact though.
That said, we are not forcing anyone to advertise on our tubes, be it via ads or videos through our paid partner content program. We also do not threaten anyone. Everyone out there can send us DMCA to get content removed which shows up on our tubes but should not be there in their opinion.
I also disagree that we played any part in destroying the affiliate model. I do not even believe the affiliate model is dead. We pay 7 figures each month to our affiliates. Seems hardly dead to me. We have simply found another way to make money in an ever changing industry. You can find that unfair, or evil or whatever, but in the end, it's just business.
We will see who prevails in the long run, but I think you will be surprised.
BTW, we currently pay Vobile to use the fingerprinting system on the tubes, since we do not implement any replacement of content that is fingerprinted yet, we simply remove it. The content owner never pays more than their membership fee under this model with the FSC. We are the ones paying for it in the end, but we do so because we believe that it's the right way to go forward.