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Originally Posted by Jel
fwiw, tubes = 1% typeins. So you get 100k surfers, 1k will type in, rather than use your aff link - but!!! the actual advertising/banners/text around tube vids are VERY shitty, which personally I believe 'forces' the type-in more from a tube, so I'd feel confident saying less than 1% of your traffic types in a watermarked url.
To me, that's just part of the symbiotic relationship. Sponsor gives me content, somewhere to send joins, I send joins and get paid - win-win, when you factor in the not unreasonable at all factor that a lot of content will get stolen/shared/hotlinked/etc - bit unreasonable of me as an aff to get moody about a site putting a wm on their content.
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The problem is let's say a banner and text link above the video gets 1.5% ctr and let's say 1% will just type it in. All things being equal as an affiliate I just lost 40% of the revenue I actually send because the surfer typed it in and my affiliate code wasn't set.
You might also say that people who type in an url manually are more motivated and so mroe liekly to buy.
It is what it is (annoying cliche alert) but it helps explain some of the conversion ratio differences between sponsors and affiliates.