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Originally Posted by Konda
First of all LOL at Paul not knowing what a media buyer is...
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The good thing is I know what an ad space/traffic buyer does. Knowing the latest handle for the job isn't that important.
Traffic buying for affiliates isn't going to last long. As big companies realise most affiliates don't have the skills to warrant their percentage. And most affiliates can't afford to buy traffic from a broker on an affiliates percentile. The other problem is the number of huge sites that will deal directly with the big companies purchasing department. Buying via brokers will become a smaller business.
This is what happens in most businesses and unless site owners can offer surfers something that makes people return to a boutique website. Traffic will decline. In porn there's another element, companies following Youtube and Facebook and saying no to porn. We know this because of the weeping every time someone like Pinterest, Tumblr type sites ban porn.
Another problem for porn is we know that Tube traffic is for people wanking off. They wank and leave, the CTR is awful, the conversion is worse. which is why traffic can be bought cheap and still not convert. If products like Thommy suggested converted on Tube sites, the big companies would deal directly without the need for a broker. Even Barry knows camsites have problems buying traffic from Tube sites.
If they could convert that traffic and produce an average cam customer of it, they could afford to flood Tubes with adverts. One only has to look to see what is regularly advertised to see where the money is from porn traffic.
The present/future for affiliates is to produce quality sites and videos. Site/videos that people want to return to over and over again.
For instance, someone with my skills and personality could open a site showing people how to shoot erotic pictures/videos of their partner. Keep it soft enough and fun to get it on YT, Vimeo, FB etc. As well as my own site.
The days of throwing mud at the wall are coming to an end. Or have they already ended?