Affiliates what are your favorite tools and what would you need more of?
 

What are the tools you mostly use from affiliate programs? What would you need more of and what kind of tools would you like to have?

Is anybody still using free hosted galleries?
What about Hosted FLV's? Video banners? RSS feeds?

What tools help you make more money?

What tools have you ever thought would be great to have?

Please share your thoughts.

Bump for answers, also curious

Videos and banners that are mobile compatible. No flash based stuff (flv).

Yep - responsive HTML5 is the way to go...

Video clips in MP4 format, with the names of the pornstars that are in them if possible. A tool to dump these out along with the poster image and duration. Titles and descriptions not so important for me.

mp4 videos and good banners get's requested the most.

UPDATED, useful RSS feeds

Also taking a seat. Curious to see how this conversation unfolds.

I am also interested, mostly because I will be both re-designing my older Affiliate Programs this year but also launching a brand new one soon. :)

So c'mon affiliates (those who are left?): tell us what you want and will ACTUALLY USE for promo tools. :)

Please describe "useful"

I would like to see some text descriptions with FHG and embedded MP4 videos or HTML 5. I think a paragraph of text with galleries or videos engages the surfer as opposed to just pics or vids.

Nice subtle banners without all of the 90's gaudy gif action. More affiliate programs going to https, at least the ones offering hosted stuff, thanks in advance.

Also RSS feeds with SmartScripts standards (consistency). Nice RSS feeds with quality videos and photos, not little tiny pics.

Get the videos sized up larger in promos. We can downsize in HTML5 to fit.

Kudos for asking. There are a lot of affiliate programs out there that do go the extra mile and we appreciate it, especially Fetish Hits.

MP4 movies (1-3min) with decent quality, not the greedy ones that are available now in flv format.
Easy export in this format : mp4url|thumburl|title
More fresh content, most are 10 years old now.

Merge some sites. Way too many sites which are in a similar (sub)niche.

I posted this on another thread:

I see that most ask about movies. Somebody using pics fhg or pics content?

a portal page with all the sites! will pm you an example

I use both :)

Hosted banners ofc
of course a free hosted gallery generator with descriptions, 35/40 45/50 55/60 words
Possible reviews of each site
embed videos, hosted, and working and preferable a smooth player, size adjustable

maybe some RSS< but that is a low priority these days for me

A representative that is alive and actually answers tickets, tool like that is needed too

FreeOnes is still using FHG a lot (both image and video FHG) but also hosted videos.
For both I want to be able to grab them as a dump with a useful tool to export the dump and that model names are listed if possible.

And update them on a regular bases, so many sponsor sites have not updated in years even though they do add new content on their sites.

We also subscribe to newsletters if possible, good way to let us know there's new content available to grab.

Yeah MP4 videos is the way to go, right now we have the following:

294 mp4's for ItsLive.com
182 mp4's for GayItsLive.com

But we are working on many more for all the other sites.

Embedded video

Great point, we have already released HTML5 video banners for the following sites:

ItsLive.com general and niche banners
GayItsLive.com
AnalLiveCams.com
AsianFreeCam.com
BBWFreeCams.com

More html5 banners for other sites will be released very soon and we will try to cover all our sites as fast as possible

Thank you for the great post and input :thumbsup

Great, taking notes! Thank you

Can you share a little more info please.

All our sites are pop up free now.

Wouldn't that be something like that:
All Porn Sites Pass - sex, porn, xxx, movies, videos, pics

I am wondering too, we are still producing thousands of them and I have been thinking if it would be better to concentrate on other tools instead or not

Nice input, thank you.

We should get hosted banners setup, that isn't a problem, just need to check with Nats on how to display those links

Thank you Regina!

We have a couple thousand of those, for the new cam sites we will release some soon

Free Hosted Galleries and banners are my favorite

I'm using photo FHG's everyday in my TGP and other promos because there is a definite market for pics. I believe the older market prefers pics for surfing. I tend to promote more heavily the programs that email new weekly pic and vid galleries every week. Some affiliates only provide video promo and I feel they are ignoring a legitimate chunk of the market. That's my opinion and I'm sticking to it.

I am disappointed that no one has mentioned the JSON apis including OAuth.

Interesting about the no animated gif banners -- but animated HTML5 display creatives? What sizes? Do you want the full screen display ads for mobile devices?

Good biz thread, rare around here these days :thumbsup

Here are the tools that we create the most for our clients. Mostly clients are wanting tools that work with mobile traffic.

1. Html5 video/iframe banners.

Iframed Video Banners

2. Standard image banners gif/jpg - Mostly 300x250 and 315x300 for tubes but sometimes we still do some 468x60 and 728x90.

banners
banners

3. Responsive landing pages.

DG 28
Welcome to xdating.com
http://www.zuzanadesigns.com/DGInter...Pages/36/html/

4. Hosted Galleries video/picture.

http://www.zuzanadesigns.com/Hugh/Di...ybrid/01/html/
http://www.zuzanadesigns.com/Hugh/Di...ybrid/02/html/
http://www.zuzanadesigns.com/jigar/G...ml5/index.html
http://www.zuzanadesigns.com/Luka/Babes/Gallery01/

5. Email Templates.

http://www.zuzanadesigns.com/DGInter...ting/email/01/
http://www.zuzanadesigns.com/DGInter...ting/email/02/

Weekly is a good point, we are emailing big fhg batches but it would be better to split it more and send it out weekly.

Good questions, here is a bump for answers

Zuzana, great list and amazing quality of work!

picture FHG
banners
FHG dump with model name|description|title

Html5 video banners.

Descriptions for scenes.

intresting for me too
 

How long mp4 you mean?

may animgif?

I would like support. It seems fetishhits hasn’t this one. No answer on support request or e-mail. Please, add support. ;)

you know what really helps? Some decent pictures. One nice image for each of your models. Or if you can have a nats dump with one fhg labels with the models name.

Great thread!

Making notes, good stuff.

Love this thread!

Video clip in MP4 format;
New banners: if you launch a new model we need banners about her immediatly not 2 months after;
Hosted galleries are important;

...and as Freeones Regina said:

"And update them on a regular bases, so many sponsor sites have not updated in years even though they do add new content on their sites.
We also subscribe to newsletters if possible, good way to let us know there's new content available to grab."

Since several people have asked: I still use pictures for promotion but not FHG so much; I usually link the pics straight to the front page tour. It's quite a pain to review a bunch of FHGs for good promotional pictures, so with the programs I promote regularly, I typically ask for (and usually get) a member's-area pass with permission to pull photos for promotion. That's easiest for me me and delivers better results than any system of hosted galleries.

Hit me up if you have any interest in promoting NaughtyAllie. (jake at naughtyallie dot com)

1. searchable index of models (that actually works)
2. actual scene descriptions not the one line "she got fucked in the ass" ones
3. mp4s as mentioned - viewing source and digging for the mp4 works but much cooler if you have it
4. this is a simple thing but so many lack it...your logo. not everyone likes the same banner or creatives and anyone worth a shit will make their own
5. list or your upcoming releases or scenes would also be very useful

:pimp

Same for me: a few owners/models (especially who has not promo material) offer to me this possibility so that I can choose a few pictures, resizing them.

Less shaving.
Sponsors to put more effort into converting abandon carts / upsells / email collection.