Anyone else see Chaturbate referrals revenue disappear?

[brandnew]

I know my referrals are active but that 5% has stopped coming my way. Anyone else experience this?

[emmasexytime]

Originally Posted by brandnew

I know my referrals are active but that 5% has stopped coming my way. Anyone else experience this?

i agree, something seems to be wrong with it

[brandnew]

Originally Posted by emmasexytime

i agree, something seems to be wrong with it

Chaturbate support has been useless. They sent me some copy/paste reply that they do not see any traffic generated by your affiliate links to which I sent screenshots of my affiliate page. No response. Insane.

[Colmike9]

My referrals are still paying out, has a balance today, getting signups. Looks fine to me

[DVTimes]

Originally Posted by brandnew

I know my referrals are active but that 5% has stopped coming my way. Anyone else experience this?

Do you mean they are paying you less or that people are spending less?

[brandnew]

Originally Posted by DVTimes

Do you mean they are paying you less or that people are spending less?

I'm getting less as in no more revenue from my referrals. I believe that there must be some sort of glitch because my referrals are active, daily, and I'm getting nothing from any of it. Something must be wrong.

[Colmike9]

Originally Posted by brandnew

I'm getting less as in no more revenue from my referrals. I believe that there must be some sort of glitch because my referrals are active, daily, and I'm getting nothing from any of it. Something must be wrong.

Are you able to talk to whoever you referred? Maybe they did something like switched cam companies to promote?
One of my referrals had like 7 signups since my last post above and my earnings went up a little bit.

Their support does need an overhaul, when I worked for Apple, I'd be fired for some of their replies..

[brandnew]

Originally Posted by Colmike9

Are you able to talk to whoever you referred? Maybe they did something like switched cam companies to promote?
One of my referrals had like 7 signups since my last post above and my earnings went up a little bit.

Their support does need an overhaul, when I worked for Apple, I'd be fired for some of their replies..

I'll try reaching out to them.
Hopefully support will answer me today.

[cybermike]

Referrals still going fine

[brandnew]

Originally Posted by cybermike

Referrals still going fine

Everything is fine until it isn't.

[wankawonk]

i think something has changed at chaturbate in the last few years. I used to do very well, but in recent years earned nothing sending traffic via my own account to the affiliate program.

However, I now sell the traffic to a super-affiliate and get good results.

I think its a classic example of rich get richer and the small fish get nothing.

[MakeMeGrrrrowl]

Originally Posted by Colmike9

Are you able to talk to whoever you referred? Maybe they did something like switched cam companies to promote?
One of my referrals had like 7 signups since my last post above and my earnings went up a little bit.

Their support does need an overhaul, when I worked for Apple, I'd be fired for some of their replies..

The referrals are customers, right? How could he talk to them? Do affiliate companies share their customer's personal information with affiliates? That sounds horrible if so.

[brandnew]

Originally Posted by MakeMeGrrrrowl

The referrals are customers, right? How could he talk to them? Do affiliate companies share their customer's personal information with affiliates? That sounds horrible if so.

Chaturbate doesn't share personal information but you can see the username of the webmasters and broadcasters you refer.

[MakeMeGrrrrowl]

Originally Posted by wankawonk

i think something has changed at chaturbate in the last few years. I used to do very well, but in recent years earned nothing sending traffic via my own account to the affiliate program.

However, I now sell the traffic to a super-affiliate and get good results.

I think its a classic example of rich get richer and the small fish get nothing.

Do you have any thoughts on what could have changed? Quality decrease? Too much quantity?

[wankawonk]

Originally Posted by MakeMeGrrrrowl

Do you have any thoughts on what could have changed? Quality decrease? Too much quantity?

The only thing I can think of is that when you're doing mad volume, you're not just getting paid commission on sales. its brand marketing at that point, you're getting paid CPM or monthly media buys.

these super-affiliates do so much volume that it might be worth it for chaturbate to buy it at a loss because what's their alternative? stripchat or another competitor will buy the traffic.

I know for sure that these cam sites buy pops in large volumes at a "loss" because they're buying brand awareness. you and me couldn't participate in that game because we need positive ROI to make it work. but chaturbate's like....probably a billion dollar company....they have a massive marketing budget and they can't really expect an immediate positive ROI.

so....brand marketing? its the only thing I can think of.

and yeah, they're probably saturated enough that its tough for small affiliates to make real money off new signups. Colmike won that game years ago before shit got saturated LOL. But they still have to buy shitloads of traffic to maintain brand awareness.

[emmasexytime]

They are saturated but I think it is a mix of other things. economy and OF

I know many are using OF live now.

[Colmike9]

Originally Posted by MakeMeGrrrrowl

The referrals are customers, right? How could he talk to them? Do affiliate companies share their customer's personal information with affiliates? That sounds horrible if so.

I thought we're talking about webmaster referrals, he said 5% in the op.

[MakeMeGrrrrowl]

Originally Posted by Colmike9

I thought we're talking about webmaster referrals, he said 5% in the op.

Ohh okay. I was thinking customer referrals

Thanks

[MakeMeGrrrrowl]

Originally Posted by brandnew

Chaturbate doesn't share personal information but you can see the username of the webmasters and broadcasters you refer.

Great to know for my affiliate program.

So like for instance each week when you have a payout or you want to look at stats, you can pull a report, and it will show you how much each user name spent during that time frame?

With chaturbate (or other affiliate programs) do you get money on the initial sale and then 5% for a certain time period or do you keep that customer forever? Could it be one or the other? Money on the initial sale or a percentage for a time period?

What happens if a customer you refer is already a member of their site?

[sarettah]

Originally Posted by MakeMeGrrrrowl

Great to know for my affiliate program.

So like for instance each week when you have a payout or you want to look at stats, you can pull a report, and it will show you how much each user name spent during that time frame?

With chaturbate (or other affiliate programs) do you get money on the initial sale and then 5% for a certain time period or do you keep that customer forever? Could it be one or the other? Money on the initial sale or a percentage for a time period?

What happens if a customer you refer is already a member of their site?

on chaturbate there is a .csv dump of transactions that you can pull at any time.

Chaturbate has a couple of options, you can get $1.00 per signup or 20% revshare, you can also get $50/broadcaster that signs up under you. There is also webmaster referrals where you get 5% of whatever a webmaster that signs up brings in

If a customer is already a member you get nothing beyond the joy of sending your traffic to them

[MakeMeGrrrrowl]

Originally Posted by sarettah

on chaturbate there is a .csv dump of transactions that you can pull at any time.

Chaturbate has a couple of options, you can get $1.00 per signup or 20% revshare, you can also get $50/broadcaster that signs up under you. There is also webmaster referrals where you get 5% of whatever a webmaster that signs up brings in

If a customer is already a member you get nothing beyond the joy of sending your traffic to them

So let's say you send 50 people to the affiliate site, and 20 are already members. How does the person sending the traffic know that they are already members and it's not wasted or non converting traffic?

[sarettah]

Originally Posted by MakeMeGrrrrowl

So let's say you send 50 people to the affiliate site, and 20 are already members. How does the person sending the traffic know that they are already members and it's not wasted or non converting traffic?

short answer, you don't. Like with most affiliate systems, you know how many hits they got, how many users registered and how much money got spent.

On Chaturbate you can also set up a postback which would give you more information.

A postback is a POST request with the data sent as JSON. It is webhook compatible and integrates well with many webhook compatible systems such as Zapier, Stripe, and Slack. Chaturbate allows registering up to 5 postback URLs and conversions post to all registered URLs that are enabled.

A postback happens when a user signs up, makes a purchase, becomes a broadcaster, or earns a commission. The affiliate that referred that user can then react, for example, by creating a local database entry or sending out an email.

The postback URLs should be kept hidden and used only for Chaturbate conversion tracking.

What data is sent in a postback?

Key Type Description
id string Uniquely identifies the postback

type string The type of conversion that took place. Possible values:
tokens_signup-referral, tokens_broadcaster-referral, ppr_signup-referral, ppr_broadcaster-referral, revshare_signup-referral, revshare_broadcaster-referral, revshare_purchase, revshare_webmaster-commission, and revshare_payout-adjustment

text string A readable version of the conversion that took place Set up as [Program Type] > [Conversion Type]

user_uid string Uniquely identifies the referred user

track string The track set on the affiliate link, which yielded the referred user

commission number Amount of money credited to the affiliate for this conversion (Negative for chargebacks)

tokens integer Number of tokens credited to the affiliate for this conversion

tier integer The signup tier for the referral (Present only for the Pay Per Registration program)

country_code string The country for the referral (Present only for the Pay Per Registration program)

checksum string An MD5 hash that verifies the sender of the postback (See details below)

attempt integer The number of attempts a request was sent before receiving a proper response (Up to 6 attempts)

[nikki99]

lower stats tthis month

[brandnew]

Originally Posted by nikki99

lower stats tthis month

Yes and support isn't answering.