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Originally Posted by SykkBoy2
Affiliates have been spoiled with high PPS payouts for years now. What's happening is a market correction. Until now, companies would never even think of lowering payouts. Affiliates would have bailed. Programs kept giving more and more to affiliates while the quality of traffic and the total worth of a member has dropped. Even if there were no tube sites, some niches are so over-saturated, they would be taking a hit anyways.
For programs to keep up with the joneses and affiliate demands, they had to do what it took and still have to do whatever it takes to maintain the payouts and stay profitable, despite thinner and thinner bottom lines.
There will always be people who are willing to pay for porn. There will always be a way to monetize porn surfers (as a whole, not necessarily individually) but it's changing and this big correction is going to wipe out some and leave victors, who will have figured it all out with minimal spending.
PPS sponsors have also been paying more and more for surfers who frankly are worth less and less, yet affiliates bitch that it's the sponsor's job to stay profitable and make profit, yet don't want THEIR stake lowered.
We're living in interesting times, that's for sure and one hand it's pretty damn exciting to see what's coming around the bend....depending on which side of the fence your on as things fall by the wayside.
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Your opinion is very typical of what I would expect from an "affiliate manager."
As a webmaster, I believe it is up to the sponsors to maintain good recurring ratios with their paysites. The webmaster has no control over how the sponsor runs their paysites or business. One might say, "Well, webmasters promote paysites with devious tours and link straight to the join page." In that case, surfers might not be getting what they expected, but it is still the sponsor who allowed those rules in the first place. So, the buck stops with the sponsor.
It is also the responsibility of the sponsor to stay competitive with payouts in the industry. They should not expect affiliates to deliver the same amount of work and sales for a lower payout. For example, I have two sponsors which convert equally good and run equally great sites. The only difference is one pays $30 PPS and the other $35 PPS. I promote both to keep my traffic diversified, but all of my extra effort, work, and sales always go to the $35 PPS sponsor. If they both payed $35 PPS, I would divide my efforts equally among them.