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Originally Posted by Dankasaur
I like these except this one:
Sponsors do this for tubes because of the volume of traffic and sales they bring in... Of course you're gonna treat your highest affiliates better, they shouldn't be required to give the same perks to lower affiliates.
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I guess some consensus is better than none.
The problem is when the sponsor starts giving out 12 minute clips to pornhub, porntube, and youporn it usually kills sales for other affiliates who have to compete with less. So as a normal affiliate there is no incentive for me to keep promoting you.
A tale of two sponsors here who will remain nameless. I will neither confirm or deny any guesses.
Sponsor 1-
Niche content. Good person for the owner. Seemed to have an extensive tube campaign where they posted content like crazy on the tubes. A tube site is #1 for their paysite name, they are second. The rest of the 1st page is almost all tubes. The first tube site link has 20+ pages of 5 minute+ videos.
For affiliate promo content they have maybe 25 three minute video trailers available. At least publicly. At one point on the revshare program the owner had prechecked cross sales with another program near the same niche.
They are out of business now. I never did too much with them. The cross sale turned me off and the conversions were nothing special.
Sponsor 2-
Niche content, don't know the owner well but they have been very fair with affiliates, around for a long time, hired someone full time at one point to help take down pirate content. They are #1 for their paysite name and 7/9 of the other 1st page results on Google are things like their twitter feed or affiliate sites (not big tubes). It's very difficult to find their stuff on tubes or pirate forums because they take it down as soon as they see it. Even promos are somewhat scarce on the big tubes. for instance you get "no results" when typing their paysite name into pornhub.
For affiliate content they provided over 200 videos over the years, mostly just 30 seconds. Now they provide maybe 30 hosted FLVs about 2 minutes in length.
The owner posted here about doing over $1 million in sales recently one year and I think they said they were aiming for $2 million the next year. They also had a C4S store too to be fair.
A third program posted here once about making $33K or so over four years from posting at XHamster from something like 50 million video views. Well I've recently sent this program (sponsor 2) more sales than that from just a couple legal tubes, TGPs, blogs and well placed links in ONE YEAR. I consider myself to be rather mid-sized. It's just that I converted the traffic better and didn't send crap or sacrifice 400,000 video views per sale.
This sponsor is one of few who still converts for me to this day where most of the others are total crap.
I could have made a lot more money for Sponsor 1 if they took the route of sponsor 2 more. Multiply it by several hundred serious affiliates and the results are big.