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Originally Posted by Beaver1
And the affiliate programm went back to the webmaster and did their own media buying,
for half of the money, with the numbers they got before,
as soon as he place the ad codes again.
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oh what a new conspiracy theory :-)
you really do not need such theories because everything is logic what happens here.
the "affiliate program 3.0" is not what was it a few years ago.
90% of the affiliate revenues are running through affiliateprograms that do not have own offers. they are presenting ALL offers they can get on ONE plattform to THOUSANDS of media buyers.
the program owners have changed their affiliate team from sometimes 100 to ONE single person that is only dealing with this affiliate 3.0 programms.
and they live from the money that the 99 other affiliatemanagers used to get before from the program owner.
i mean even here at GFY there are MUCH MUCH MORE such "affiliate 3.0" systems are writing than program owners - this is not to oversee.
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My theory is that ad networks, media buyers, and programs are the same people,
and everything else is just a gimmick to control the market, hide sales,
and move earnings from high to low tax countries.
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in that point you are right in some cases of VERY big companies.
sure that those wanted to keep their market share and they indeed bought some "affiliate 3.0 programs" and also some smaller networks.
but what shall be wrong on that? this is market expansion and at the end of the day they
have to compete still with all the others.
a webmaster will not chose a network what is focused to sell traffic cheap to own products. so they have only the chance to give them the same or they will lose traffic and marketshare.
in this biz as in ever other biz it is all around competition and lowering costs.
all that is only to reach when you concentrate things to make them big enough to get the best conditions.
as a small one in this game you have to be VERY smart to survive. but as soon as one is smart he will be smart enough to know that it is much more effective to swim with the stream as against it. so who swims hardly against the stream CAN NOT be called smart.