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Originally Posted by Barefootsies
Oh, you mean like the affiliates who wanted affiliate programs to pay $75-125 per join? Those who wanted to be paid in advance, or have all of these creatives done for them an their one join a month, free hosting, free this and all of the other things of the past that helped burn this industry to the ground???
As I said sport, affiliate programs solved this. They brought their traffic and networks in-house. They made their own tubes, developed their own relationships, and now no longer need to pay those ransoms. The same thing is going on now over in mainstream with their affiliate networks.
You have to face the facts champ. Programs are tired of "bending over backwards" for the affiliate.
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So do you think these small programs are going to become rich by telling all their affiliates to fuck off? There's a reason why the affiliate model has been so widespread. It's very lucrative to claim to pay 50/50 but actually pay the affiliate 25% of what they are actually sending you as far as revenue. There's a lot of money in having 1,000 poor saps send you 10,000 clicks a month and make $0 for it while you take all the joins which weren't tracked at best and at worst get free branding. That's just another one of the dirty little secrets.
It's easier for Manwin or RK to tell their affiliates to fuck off after they have already established their tubes as massive traffic pumps. But it'll be tougher for a smaller player unless their affiliate program never did anything anyway. And even if they could why would they if it's still profitable? It may not be as profitable since 70% of affiliates have left and conversions are getting worse but it's still easy money until you get to the point where it's no longer worth the hassle to keep the program open.
I guess we're getting there though. Maybe you're right. When there aren't any affiliates left there's no point in having an affiliate program. I agree. That's coming.