Originally Posted by thommy

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.