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the affiliate business model has plusses and minuses.
one of the problems of the affiliate business model is content saturation and diminishing returns.
by that i mean, the population of world wankers is fairly static---and it is only possible to produce a certain amount of new original content over a given period of time.
so the big player produces the content, uses the affiliate system to promote, exposes the content in a very broad way, and satiates the market.
unlike other things once a wanker has seen something, and splashed his load from it, it no longer is so valuable.
so the big player, creates content, gives away half his profit, and then immediately does the cycle over again---like a dog chasing it's tail.
some smaller volume boutique type niche paysites have no affiliates at all, keep all the signup money, and have a very high ROI; part of this is due to relatively low market saturation, and a longer shelf life for the content.
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