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Originally Posted by Paul Markham
Affiliates at more than 10% are going to be hard pressed in the future. The economics simply won't stack up.
Ads are easier to buy, better to monitor and more profitable. Whether it's on a blog like a newspaper, free entertainment sites like Pornhub or Youtube or search engine. Why pay 1,000s of people who the sponsor has no control over when it can be done better and cheaper in-house?
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The biggest affiliates are the sites that companies are buying ads from. Affiliates are going to die because people will get their traffic from tubes? The tubes are the affiliates. Money being paid for those ads is being paid to affiliates.