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Originally Posted by bdld
only the sponsors with shady billing or old outdated content will go away. basically companies who never relied on rebills.
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What about the companies who won't or don't know how to protect their content at all and so nobody is buying a membership because it's all free? How do those guys stay in business? Especially when the rebills dry up because their members start realizing that all their friends get the same members area for free off a bit torrent site or a file sharing site like rapidshare?
Everybody keeps talking about "shady" this and "shady" that. But you're all leaving out the one big factor that has already devastated this business: Piracy.
The loss of x-sells to this business is gonna hurt a lot of us affiliates. It's all fun and games on GFY until you wake up one day and realize that between tens of millions of dollars lost from x-sells stopping and tens of millions of dollars lost from piracy...that affiliate programs start shutting down until there's nothing left but a few.
I've already seen a 60% loss in my affiliate income over the last two years. If it weren't for AEBN, dating, and cams...I wouldn't even consider myself an affiliate anymore.
The lions share of my income was paysite sales for over a decade. It dwarfed cams and dating. And that statement seems insane in this day and age.
But now even cams and dating are becoming oversaturated as EVERYBODY is pushing it, and everybody that was gonna join has joined.
Is there ANYBODY in the world who hasn't already been cookied for AFF? I'm pretty sure every surfer who ever turned on a computer already has been cookied for one dating site or another and one cam site or another.
And unless your website is "pornhub" the chances of you cookieing the next new surfer to the net are slim and none.
That last line in the Quickbuck statement isn't far from the truth.