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Originally Posted by MisterPeabody
The problem some people have with JT (and, of course, Nathan/Fabian) is that of PERSPECTIVE.
From an affiliate's point of view tubes have killed their business model and greatly reduced their income; from JT's perspective he's simply maximizing the current traffic climate. (Nathan/Fabian I'll leave out of this.)
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I don't think it's only affiliates who have been harmed. It's paysite owners as well. You said it yourself. Once you put up those 10 minute clips and submitted them over the course of a year your sales tanked. The difference is when the sponsor gives away the content or suffers from piracy both the sponsor and affiliate say lose 100 sales a day in total. But for the sponsor maybe they can get 5-10 sales a day from the increased exposure (still a net loss of 90 sales). For the most part the affiliate is shut out. We only lose as traffic is harder to get and conversions tank.
There is so much against the adult affiliate these days (especially the paysite affiliate) that it isn't anywhere near the same deal as in the past.
To be honest I have stopped putting up new paysite links and I don't put up sponsor content any longer. It's almost worthless. And to top it off most sponsors are now giving out 5-15 minute clips to the large tubes while in contrast the affiliate, if lucky, is getting six year old 30 second wmv clips. Then most sponsors are now treating their affiliates as if they are freeloading assholes. Then there is the math. Why send traffic to a sponsor converting at 1:4000 to 1:7000 when you can get 1 cent a click elsewhere? THIS is the legacy people like Fabian and JT built in this industry. They destroyed the paysite affiliate model and they have crippled the paysite model in general. They may be nice guys in real life but this is what they did to our industry and that is how it is.