Originally Posted by RawAlex

The last numbers I saw (a year old) suggested that upwards to 50% of all end users had some sort of spyware on their systems.

Zango has claimed upwards to 200,000 installs per day - 73,000,000 installs per year. I think that the 1/2% penetration is just to polite a number.

However, this is the key thing: The sponsors don't lose a cent as a global overall total. The money moves, but the surfers buy at the same rate. The difference is who gets paid and how much it costs to acquire the sales. If a program isn't buying Zango traffic, then yes they are likely losing sales - but in the big scheme of things, the industry is the same size, just different people make the money.

The ones getting the biggest fucking over is the affiliates, but for the most part that just isn't important to many of the programs.