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Originally Posted by signupdamnit
Affiliates were the ones with all the traffic that's why they called the shots.
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This is true and I blame sponsors for giving you the tools to call the shots. Seems you did a great job of destroying yourselves.
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It only changed when companies came along and started hiding behind DMCA law in order to amass large amounts of traffic by using the content of others without their permission. It's easy to forget that. If it weren't for Mansef and the gang in 2006 and 2007 with their tubes affiliates would still rule the roost. Google helped a bit too with some of their changes but for the most part it's sites like Pornhub who took the traffic from the affiliates.
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Affiliates became too expensive and too much trouble. Plus they had given away so much content, Tubes were the next logical step.
And affiliates took traffic from sponsors. Adapt or die.
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But don't rejoice over the death of affiliates just yet if you're a sponsor who hated affiliates. The same conditions are also destroying pay site sales in general as porn becomes free.
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I was reliant never on paysite sales to make a living.
Let's assume for a minute it becomes very illegal to have a tube site with user uploaded pirated content. Then what?
Every Tube owner will have to go through their servers with a fine tooth comb. Then every Tube site will either shrink or disappear. As you say traffic is king, except traffic are real people and they will stay viewing porn on Pornhub, Youtube, etc. Because content is a magnet the traffic loves.
The days of the Ma & Pa operations are mostly over or coming to an end, except for a few with micro niche or a super girl.
In the good old days many yearn for, The Hun would accept a gallery from anyone. Today few submit to him. Pornhub won't be giving affiliates an account, they will only give it to sponsors who will give them the affiliates cut.
I accept my time is over, because of health and no need to work. Many more need to realise that.
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Not to defend Manwin (haha!) but they are so big that I can see why they would want to get more control over the supply line for their product. It's only natural. I hope it doesn't lead to less competition though.
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That for a sponsor like Manwin is a bad move. They need to go to the guys who can shoot bast and find the best girls. That's why so many porn companies outsourced porn production. Barely Legal could never find the amount of Babes I could. I'm just 1 of 100 or 200 shooters all working the same way.