Program owners, can I hotlink your tour trailers if it means sales for you?
 

Program owners, can I hotlink your tour trailers if it means sales for you?

yes you can hot link any of my trailers

I even supply a dump file if you want to hotlink the flvs

or youcan hotlink any of the videos in the fhgs or tours

Thanks, great to hear.

I will use this thread as a base for a little experiement I will use on some high traffic pages..
So sponsors, get your "yes" in here ;)

most programs allow this

Really? Maybe I should just do it then! Can always remove on request then.. and ofcourse take way all the lovely sales ;)

aww shit nevermind

Hotlink away and with style. See sig! :Graucho

whats the problem?

I had an affiliate do this without asking permission.

On the first day he signs up, hotlinks all our 2min previews (about half an hour total) into what he probably thought was the uberest gallery ever, and then slammed it with junk traffic that I can only assume was feeder hits from some broker. Burned more of my bandwidth that day than all our members and every other affiliate combined. He did make a few sales, but for us he was a net loss of several hundred dollars. I had to disable hotlinking on the previews then. :disgust

But, since you actually know what you're doing, I'd be willing to duplicate them to a separate directory for your use only.

Yes you can :)

If it means sales it's ohhh so approved :) see sig btw :thumbsup

I hear you on the bandwidth issue however it is a reality that youporn is probably burning way more bandwidth than you, and your affiliates are having to compete with that.

It's getting to be like this: Affiliates are needing to do some hotlinking to compete for traffic with these mega tubes and if sponsors can't help them do that then they are not going to be sending any real traffic.


In the real advertising world (out side of porn) companies would be begging for us to hotlink their videos with their branding on it. It's free advertising.

So I think there is going to be some new affiliate models comming in the future and hotlinking is going to be part of the model.

I can tell you right now, and nothing against the way anyone here does business, if
I can't hotlink then I'm simply not using the sponsor. I can't compete without it.
There are several sponsors that I really did good with that I can't really use now and
that sucks, but that's how it's going.

Youtube has people hotlinking their videos by the millions and it will be only a matter of time before some sponsor rises to that level. The sponsor that does that first will surely dominate.

If I have something you're interested in send me a message and I'll set up something special for you.

Generally agree, but anything can be abused, and I'm not running a charity. I won't let someone take $600/day out of my pocket so they can put $200 into theirs. That's not a sane way to run any business. You can't accommodate everyone all the time. But anyone with a sensible strategy is welcome. I know from his sales history with us that biskoppen is a pro who won't do anything stupid.

Go for it. See sig.

Sure can

I always do that. Same with pics.

yes you can.

sure go ahead :)

Sure you can. anything special, just hit me up :)

when I said this :

In the real advertising world (out side of porn) companies would be begging for us to hotlink their videos with their branding on it. It's free advertising.

I failed to mention that in the real advertising world the companies would have one
video that was 30 secs long and not 84 2min clips hijacked from the tour. :1orglaugh

That does make a differrence.

But the youporn/youtube thing still stands. They are being hot linked like it's stupid and showing some clips that are 20-50 megabytes in size.
I'd say the ability to grant that kind of bandwidth to affiliates is going to be powerful
thing in the future. And by future I mean in the next comming months.

I don't think we will get thru 2009 without some sponsor providing some kind of easy plug-in massive hotlinking system.

I can tell you of at least one sponsor I know that can afford it with no problem.
Maybe I can code up some kind of system and sell it to them. :winkwink:

if the surfer wants more video send them to the sponsor's tour page to watch it there :2 cents:

although many think hotlinked embedded video can be great to plaster over a bunch of splogs and stick a bunch of dating ads around it :1orglaugh

go for it,

hit me up for special payouts man, we go way back :) if you can push volume (or anyone for that matter), ill hook it up, plus i have some great sites about to be in beta.

mmm link hotten whilst making teh monies is what im talkin about

Well, it doesn't quite work like that.. the tour sells yes, but what the surfer sees on the page before reaching the tour has a huge impact if it's going to sell or not

Go ahead dude, I'm in the experiment :thumbsup

no problem.

hit me up if you need me :winkwink:

I agree on this. I don't like any freehosting. Its a partnership The affiliate is getting 50% and I have to host his files? If his traffic is doing well enough then he should be able to afford his own bandwidth. I am glad to give copies of trailers to anyone that wants them to upload to their own servers. I may on a case to case basis help someone out by setting up a special trailer that is allowed only access from certain domains though.

Yes you can....

You can hot-link any our trailers (teasers).