Just a few months ago, the feeling was that illegal tube sites were just going to get bigger and more profitable and a program without insane cross sales just couldn't make it anymore. If you tried to argue it here on GFY you were either called clueless or schooled on how "free is the future".
But now MasterCard seems to be trying to reign in cross sales and AFF, who subsidizes most of the free illegal tubes seems to be going under. Leaving tube sites with few alternatives as not many advertisers can be profitable there.
These are just a few things but my spidey sense is telling me the wind is starting to blow in a slightly different direction than it was even just a few months ago.
Anyway, just thinking out loud here.
Any thoughts on what changes are coming in 2009?