Originally Posted by Atticus

Bunch of marketing wizards in here.

It has nothing to do with "views". It has to do with keeping the company name towards the top of the thread list on the main page. They could give a crap if the thread gets 1000 or 100,000 views. That's why the entire post is summed up in the title..

Company A proud to announce the launching of New site X with $50 PPS.

Contest whores do their work for them at .50 per post and the message is in front of webmasters for a week straight. Constant retention.

Then after a week they launch the..

Winners of Company A proud to announce the launching of New site X with $50 PPS thread. Post your screen name to collect.

Contest whores then bump that thread and keep it at the top for an extra 2 days for free.

Nobody cares that the people who win the contests are not webmasters. The point of the contest is not to reward affiliates, its to keep the message in front of the real webmasters for a week straight.

It's not rocket science.