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Originally Posted by Relentless
Every affiliate making money still promotes sites. Either sponsors or their own sites. Affiliates who do not make money (and do not send sales) have left. They have been replaced by in-house sponsor networks and professional webmaster services-for-hire. The retirement of webmasters isn't reducing the sales of sponsor programs at all. More webmasters doesn't mean more sales in most instances.
Anyone who thinks that is unfair can easily create their own Paysites and promote them. Affiliates have all the power. We can create Paysites, tubes, do SEO work, create new businesses any time we want. All it takes is work, money or both.
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Of course some will try to spin it but the bottom line is that the value proposition for the affiliate in adult is quite a bit less than it was in the past. It's pennies versus dollars. It's like the question of whether people coming out of college would like to become managers or whether they would like to work as a cashier at Walmart. Go to a mainstream forum and ask how many of them are ex-adult webmasters or why they don't work in adult with adult affiliate programs.
You will get two main answers:
1. It's all available for free. Nobody pays for porn these days!
2. All adult programs shave like crazy.
I don't entirely agree with #2 but that is the perception the industry has largely built for itself- a reputation of cheating affiliates. Again, don't ask 12clicks or oldjeff go ask the affiliates themselves. I think most of the affiliates here will tell you the same thing too. But somehow the input from actual affiliates tends to get ignored in favor of the BROtalk. And that's another reason why you can't find affiliates. Treat people like shit and they will eventually leave.