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Originally Posted by signupdamnit
It's amazing how many sponsors still don't get this. Of course I doubt you are saying 100% no sales any other way but it is common sense. If you give it all away for free or most of it your other sales will suffer eventually at some point.
From observation I saw a common pattern:
1. Piracy causes sales to slip overall.
2. Affiliate sales decrease.
3. Sponsor gives in and starts a tube campaign with long videos.
4. Sponsor sees "success" and thinks "Oh boy! Free sales!"
5. Affiliate sales begin radically declining at an accelerated pace now.
6. Sponsor starts seeing diminishing returns from tube campaigns.
7. Affiliate sales are almost non-existent now
8. Sales from tube campaigns further decline, diminishing returns.
9. Sponsor goes out of business
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I think part of that reason is that there have been a lot of sponsors who produced template pay sites as if they where a factory.
It became easier to produce a new pay site every 2 weeks with 100 hosted galleries / 50 promo videos than actually building and maintaining a couple of websites.
One of the reasons was that many affiliates switched to automated promotion tools, auto import galleries and videos. all build on templates etc. so it obviously would but convert.
it's not the free content that is the main thing hurting sales, it's when you start promoting sites being blindfolded.