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Originally Posted by porno jew
paul why do people spend money advertising paysites on tubes month after month?
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Hi PJ, had to go eat breakfast and gave your question for thought. So why do they?
Without irony this time.
Look around GFY at the money spent given to affiliates to get a sign up. Think back to 1998 to the birth of the affiliates system and it's growth. The whole structure of the affiliate system was flawed. People did buy porn and it was easy to sell, the people with paysites often thought they didn't and it was hard to sell.
So they paid a lot of money to a lot of people and gave them all the tools they needed to erect a wall between the buyer and seller. And the solution to all problems was to pay for more builders and give them more bricks.
Tubes and earlier TGPs cost online porn billions. Yes they did not create sales, they destroyed the need to buy. We all remember the ratios off a TGP. One on The Hun had to be very good or the BW burn would cost more than the returns. That's because 1,000s were consuming and not buying. Top spots were often bought by sponsors themselves, to get sign ups and get affiliates attention.
The only thing save us from the Tsunami was BW costs, we wouldn't do anything to save ourselves.
Better question is. Why did online porn create it's own assassin and pay so much to him. 10% would of been more than enough to pay affiliates, a few pictures per set, fine, a few banners fine. And the rest. Well this was the common sense route.
You're self employed, sub contractors. Go do it for yourself.
There's a phrase that says "He who pays the piper calls the tune." Not in online porn. Sponsors pay the piper and the piper calls the tune.
The amount of money and over all support given to affiliates would of been far better spent in house with a marketing department. That's largely what the big Tubes are today. Owned by the big boys and good luck to anyone trying to compete with them.
So to answer your question , why do they advertise on Tubes? The industry built it's house on sand and the only way to keep it afloat is to pile more sand under the foundations.
Or simply.
They have little alternative.
Not because Tubes are better, because no sponsor can say Tubes have replaced the old sales. Was it you that said you were doing 1-800 off Tube traffic? You never told us how many surfers it takes to get 800 to a site. Can you. Will you?