Quote:
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.
|
sure, they can do that and take 100% of the sales, BUT they will now have another expense to cover whereas before the affiliate paid for that and sent them sales. Sure, the sponsor didn't get 100% for the sales, but they did not have to pay for a spot on tgps/mgps.
So, in reality, it's a win/win situation. Now just imagine if affiliates were killed completely. Now the sponsor gas to get their own traffic (bought or done by hired employees), pay for everything traffic, new employees, content, hosting etc.. etc.. Sure, they are now getting 100% of the $ for all sales, but now they have many more costs than before so they are not really getting ahead.
now, kill the affiliates and there will now be more sites out there that are FREE with all of your content.. Not samples, but FULL length movies and complete pic sets. (yes, there's that already, but with no affiates it would open the door for more sites to give out ALL FREE content that you charge for) Yet another expense to fight theft. That means lawyers, more employess monitoring shit and searchin all the sites which will equal even more expenses. Eventually there will be way to many costs that the sponsor will shut down.
Yep, some of this already happens. All the free full length video and all that shit, but I can guarantee that it would get worse. Than again it may just be the Tylenol 3 talking haha