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Originally Posted by Paul Markham
Why do you have to make it personal?
No, I don't know how many sales you make daily, I only know that people who say "if" they did this or that don't.
The industry has consolidated and part of that has brought about a less important role for affiliates. 15 years ago every sponsor who wanted affiliates did everything they could for them. Today sponsors do very little or will you argue with that as well?
So tell us where has the money shifted and I know it hasn't gone.
15 years ago free porn was a small part of the industry, today it 99.99%. That's only 1-1,000 and it's never as good as that. Tubes and Torrents are a place to get free porn. The money that was spent on porn is being spent outside.
I'm pointing out that sponsors are less reliant of affiliates and the future for many of them is to bring traffic generation in-house because it has a better ROI. Why allow someone else to submit sample scenes to Tubes when it can be done by someone cheaper?
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Well sorry to make it personal Paul but you personally started this mess.
Let's stop comparing the past to the present ok? Obviously things have changed. Where has the money shifted to from paysite sales? To:
cams
dating
dick pills
discounted offers
sex games
VOD
clips
Only Fans
sex toys
phone sex
erotic literature
direct tube accounts (no paysite needed)
on and on and on....
So are affiliates "needed" for any of the above? YES!!!!!!!!
Can a company do a lot of the affiliate work themselves? Yes - and not really. Not all that affiliates do, no.
So again (and for the last time in this thread): today it's a MIX of big and small affiliates. A smart company respects and works with ALL levels of affiliates.