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Differences between Mainstream and Adult
its interesting running a business that has one foot in adult and one in mainstream. I think it is very advantageous to be able to compare both markets and take the best ideas out of both. In their own ways, their are parts that are very innovative and parts that are much outdated, but they are 2 separate worlds with very little crossover.
As I know it?s a phantom subject for most people on gfy, I thought i would share some of my knowledge.
Affiliate networks/systems
In mainstream many merchants (programs) have their own merchant accounts for the sales they send themselves and use affiliate networks for traffic from partners.
See, in adult you have ccbill, nats, mpa3, netbilling, etc, and these are systems attached to processors or leased out/handbuilt. In mainstream there are hundreds of affiliate networks, and its their own business model. Their purpose is to attract affiliates to join, then they lure the merchants with the promise of many affiliates promoting them (they take 20-30% of the margin on the products from the advertiser/client.)
Dynamics
Much more spread out than adult, you have many huge companies with some very smart people and I would guess 20% of the market is biased against adult.
Will post more in a bit
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