Originally Posted by trevesty

You did something very wrongly then.

I'm not really sure why I would use click / reg ratio as a KPI for pops, unless I already know how much a free reg will make over say, 6 months or a year. Either way, I haven't sent pops to cams directly (as an affiliate) in a while, but let's just say my mortgage / my truck / my wife's SUV payment are all paid for by those pops still and I haven't sent a single click since early 2019 (about $2k / mo). This was "general tube" traffic.

On one of my smaller tubes, I only send directly as an affiliate from my pre-roll and it's about 10 free for 12-15k clicks daily. Doesn't really matter, though, as the income is about 4x what the open market pays.

I think more important question here is, since you're spouting stuff that everyone I know with any serious money knows to be bullshit, what was your budget on these buys? If you didn't spend at least 25-30k, then assess and adjust and do it all over again, then you didn't "test" shit. You just threw some beer money at the wall and are mad it didn't stick. Since you're bragging about $3k / mo in your sig and hoping for some referral pennies, I tend to lean towards this being the case.