A decade ago, when I was making good money selling monthly porn subscriptions on a revshare basis, I utterly swore off promoting cams and dating. In some cases this was because I didn't like the ROI on the traffic I was sending, and in other cases I found too many shady terms in the relevant terms and conditions. Ultimately I concluded (again, this was ten years ago) that I was wasting my traffic sending it to those industries.
Well, times change, and we all know that monthly porn subscriptions aren't what they used to be. But cams and dating continue to thrive. So I've begun a sort of systematic exploration of the offerings, to see if I can find a place why my small volumes of high-quality traffic can make me some money.
So far, my impressions aren't good. This thread will document my research process, or at least the parts of it that lead to dead ends.
Given the fact that I will be sending small test volumes of traffic, I'm looking for a program that will pay out in reasonable minimum amounts ($100 is fine, $50 is better) using convenient and non-shady payment methods (PayPal is awesome, a check on a US bank is fine, bank transfers are dubious because of cost) with no penalty for low-volume affiliates. Given my revshare roots and philosophy, I'm always looking for some way to share in recurring business, and thus I despise any sort of takeback provisions that steal my revshare on past business for any reason. Eating my revshares from historic traffic because I'm not currently sending traffic or generating new sales is NOT acceptable.
For you youngsters, my thread title "That's how they getcha!" is a tagline from an old show called
Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist. Here's the
relevant bit on YouTube.
Please note: This is a business thread, not a "spam me with your refcode" thread. I will be criticizing and making fun of the cams and dating sites I discuss here. If you rep a program, feel free to contact me about it elsewhere. But you would be ill-advised to mention or promote it here unless you are 100% certain your terms meet my weary, jaded, and cynical high standards. (Hint: They probably don't.)