Samsonite

I see it said a lot here that mainstream beats adult. Sure adult revenue is drying up or has already for most people, but when it comes down to hard numbers I'm not sure how many mainstream sites are paying more than adult.

Example:

Amazon 4% for affiliates, up to 8% if you refer tons of people. They sell a lot of products, but this percentage is so low that you have to push a lot of sales through their site to see anything significant.

FNCash pays 30% to affiliates, and their Fleshlight products cost around $50 on average. One Fleshlight sale gives you more money than $370 in sales through Amazon.

Another example:

Cams do great for me, even now. I can live on revenue from promoting cams even with decent traffic. Why? Because they give me 30% revshare for life. Someone spends $100 I get $30. What's a mainstream program that compares to that?

Promoting straight porn is much harder but I still make some money, possible because the programs give me 70% on sign ups or 50% revshare on recurring. Name a mainstream program that does that.

I'm happy to be wrong since I'd actually like to move further into mainstream. At the moment I have sites using Amazon affiliate and Google Adsense and the income is pathetic. I get much more from the same traffic on sites that promote cams.