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Originally Posted by BradM
Jew Cat: Affiliates have been bombing for 2 years. That's WHY these tubes are doing so well. Online adult has been dying before the recession. We used to be innovators but there hasn't been anything new in porn for years.
Affiliates aren't dying - they are almost dead. It now takes a SKILLED webmaster to make money. Luckily I know some.  |
I'm not sure if you're referring to porn or the HerbalRevenue program you're running in your sig when you talk about skilled webmaster. If you're referring to the supplement business, that is FAR from dead. People are making huge bank on supplements and will continue to. You can't download dick pills and acai berries. So you cannot compare tangible goods to an easily ripped off digital product.
If you are reffering to porn affiliates, well, I'm sure there's a few old-timers kicking around who understand the traffic flow and still have a bankroll to throw at it and make good money. But yes, like you said affiliates are almost dead. SINKING SHIP! SINKING SHIP! People laugh with these "the sky is falling" posts. For adult affiliates IT FUCKING IS. There is very very little room for someone new to the game to come in and grow a reasonable business out of it. It took me fucking near 2 years of nonstop building to get making a few grand a month, and it just didn't seem worth it anymore, especially with such a bleak future ahead.
As long as there's no laws putting the pirates behind bars, any system put together will be compromised and the content shared. There's no saving it until the government steps in and starts punishing those who hide behind the loopholes. I don't think that is going to happen for a long time. The content producers andnetworks are feeling the heat, and in turn it's the affiliates who are going to pay as traffic generation goes more and more inhouse at the networks. Look at who owns most of these big tubes. Surprise! The networks!
I don't see much of a future at all for fulltime adult affiliates, and I only see things getting worse. First it will be the beermoney webmasters who drop. Then the fulltime working joe type webmasters will drop to beermoney webmaster status, at which point they will probably say fuck it and go back to getting a real job. Which will leave only a small number of large well established affiliates left, and who knows how long they will hold on. Maybe things will cycle around and the adult affiliate business will come around, but it's definitely going to be too long a cycle for anyone midlevel and down to survive.
I saw it coming a long time ago, and about a year ago I finally broke the denial and admitted it to myself, there's no future as an adult affiliate for you. So now I'm working with mainstream stuff and enjoying what I do. It's a slightly different world, but it feels more stable. I really wish I had the 2 years I put into adult back and put towards mainstream, I can tell you that much
All in all it boils down to one thing, the adult industry needs to get the law on it's side...