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Originally Posted by dcortez
I value sponsors who, when you send your visitor to their site, and the surfer navigates to a different sponsor site, the affiliate's code still shows up in the different site's join page. And even better, when a surfer comes back to the sponsor's site the next day (using the bare domain name - no affiliate link) and the cookies are still active to keep the affiliate code in place.
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But that has only really been an option for sponsors in the past 5-15 years, prior to that, we (the industry) didnt have readily available access to facilitate that, cascading billing and cross programs tracking changed the landscape in the paysite business, some could argue for the worse.
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That's good faith business.
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Agreed.
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Where are we at these days on that?
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All using NATs with cascading billing, apparently that was what we gave up as affiliates the ability for long-term tracking, versus better reporting with more options, was it a good trade off though?
I honestly did just as well using CCBill tracking codes than I did with NATs sponsors and, in some instances, when programs switched to NATs there were traffic discrepancies.
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Also re Trial Subscriptions, I seem to remember we used to be able to select No Trial join pages. A trial can be a great sales tool, IF the sponsor doesn't poach the member by offering a different deal from the trial, or the Email Subscription.
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Indeed we did and indeed a trial can be but, those members areas were the exact same as PPS trial members areas and as mentioned above, were typically operated by those site owners who heavily relied on the PPS business model, wanting to try and skim some of the affiliate traffic that was being sent to dedicated revshare programs, giving them the best of both worlds, 50% revshare and a members area packed with upsells, cross sells and shitty content, payouts on no trial tours were also significantly lower, for absolutely no reason other than the program owner wanting to pay less to their affiliates.