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No it isn't.
The affiliate business model is dying because affiliates DO NOT WANT TO WORK and the programs pandered to these affiliates.
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Piracy has caused ratios to triple. It's not because there is too much 30 second promo clips out there. It should be common sense to see.
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Piracy has very little effect on the affiliate, it affects the program a lot more than the affiliate especially those programs with exclusive content, lets not forget, affiliate programs have been around for years in adult and many of them didn't use exclusive content for a long time, it was only when every program started going the exclusive route, offering that exclusive content to affiliates for free and starting upping the affiliate incentives that the business model started to die.
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Piracy has a tremendous effect on the affiliate who stays legitimate. You don't know what you are talking about. Yes it effects the content owner as well.
The decline in the paysite market is not due to the affiliate model. That's pure idiocy and makes no sense. The business started to die in 2006 and 2007 when the porn tube model started taking off. You can see that by looking at the archives here on GFY and all other forums. And guess who ran most of those tubes? Sponsors. For the most part it wasn't small time affiliates but companies like Brazzers/Mansef who secretly owned these tubes.
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Affiliate programs saturated the market, not only with free content, but with EXCLUSIVE free content, because affiliates kept demanding more and more of it... Especially those who didn't understand the concept of marketing, thinking that by offering more for free, they'd make more sales... We are now seeing that this isn't the case and we're seeing the affects of saturating the marketing with so much content that surfers no longer want to pay for memberships, because they do not have to.
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This is just retarded. I mean most sponsors don't even release good promo material anymore. Most affiliate content out there is 3-5+ years old. The majority of the clips are 30 seconds. Some are up to 3 minutes. To say that this is responsible for the saturation of content compared to piracy by tubes and file lockers putting out hundreds of thousands of videos with full scenes is beyond moronic.
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This all happened way before tube sites, mass piracy and file lockers so to say that 'piracy' is a cause of the affiliate business model dying is nonsense, the affiliate business model is dying because affiliate programs slowly but surely, killed themselves, over a period of years and years, thanks in part, to affiliates but primarily because of their own greed.
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I will give you that we were giving it away too much before the tubes hit. But now in 2012 tubes and piracy are 99% of the problem and affiliate promo saturation is a mere 1%.
But you're free to be stupid. I'm just glad I'm moving away from being a paysite affiliate.