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Originally Posted by WarChild
It's not really controlled traffic though. See, especially when you have to pay to get it yourself. Imagine a gallery submitter 5 years ago. Uses content, submits to tgp/mgp and provides content to that tgp in return for traffic back he can monetize.
Now, today, that same "affiliate" has to buy submission passes from GTS, to submit that content to the TGP/MGP in order to get traffic back. That costs more and more, and it's less attractive to be that affilaite ever day. Eventually the program owners will realize they don't need anyone to buy tgp spots to list their galleries ... they can buy tgp spots for their hosted galleries themselves and take 100% payouts on it. It's much cheaper than paying an "affilaite" half.
So a TGP owner that has a traffic cash gold banner on the top of his page sending traffic to their PPS program would indeed be a real affiliate, but is a tgp owner selling a paid advertising spot to traffic cash gold really an affiliate in the tradional sense of the word? Arguably no.
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What do you mean by "eventually"? They have known that for years and there are still affiliates. Sure, the TGP affiliate will die someday when the model dies and then it will move on to a different model...
The problem with the "eventually" theory is you need somebody that can actually manage all of that... the program would be to pay an employee to actually give a shit about the success of the company. An employee like that is extremely difficult to find. With affiliates, you don't have to worry about that... they control their fate.
Billboard advertising agencies are brokers. They have existed for years. Mainstream ad networks are brokers. They have existed for years.
We disagree. :-)
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