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Old 11-11-2025, 05:41 AM   #1
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Do affiliates still use FHGs?

As the title says, I am wondering if affiliates still use Free Hosted Galleries (FHGs) or if they are an outdated marketing method these days.
With all the new Age Verification laws in some states / countries I can't see how an FHG could be age verified anyway, so are they a thing of the past now?
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Old 11-11-2025, 09:03 AM   #2
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we´re still producing FHG and free photo & video content in our program with centroprofits...

We use them ourselves on our blog & hope affiliates are still using them, there´s still sales coming in from affiliates, so I take it they are

If there is a need for FHG without the AVS, we´re prepared to make clean SFW FHG for affiliates to use without worrying of AVS
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Old 11-11-2025, 09:32 AM   #3
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Yes, the problem is, many are shit due to errors, images that don’t load, thumbs that don’t related to the full sized image and other stupid issues that program owners should be checking on a somewhat regular basis.

I reached out to a couple of program owners a few months back to use their FHGs on Shemale TGP but the galleries they offer are useless, due to a mix of the errors above.

Was told to give it a few weeks… It’s now been a few months and they’re still fucked
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Old 11-11-2025, 09:56 AM   #4
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How do you age verify the person looking at your FHG pages though?
Numerous US states, the UK, France, etc . . are all requiring this now.
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Old 11-11-2025, 10:34 AM   #5
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Yes, on a few sites. There are programs that still release decent FHGs regularly.
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Who is posting these FHGs and where? How much traffic do they receive and how many sales do they make?
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I just assume that it's up to the person who uses the hosted galleries to make sure that they don't show them to anyone who is under the age of 18. So if they are posting some of your galleries on their site it's up to them to make sure they have age verification implemented.
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Old 11-11-2025, 02:06 PM   #8
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I just assume that it's up to the person who uses the hosted galleries to make sure that they don't show them to anyone who is under the age of 18. So if they are posting some of your galleries on their site it's up to them to make sure they have age verification implemented.
You host the gallery. The affiliate just links to you.
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I wonder how that will play out in the age of age verification?
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I just assume that it's up to the person who uses the hosted galleries to make sure that they don't show them to anyone who is under the age of 18. So if they are posting some of your galleries on their site it's up to them to make sure they have age verification implemented.
no, it´s your content, your gallery, your page, so your need to AVS that page if it´s hosted on your sites...


either AVS must be applied to that page or clean images
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Who is posting these FHGs and where? How much traffic do they receive and how many sales do they make?
Pinkworld still accepts them. I get a few hits from them, not a lot but every bit adds up.
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Old 11-12-2025, 08:48 AM   #12
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I would use FHG, but many of them don't work, some are outdated, etc.
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Old 11-14-2025, 07:55 PM   #13
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Old 11-15-2025, 06:15 AM   #14
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Yes, the problem is, many are shit due to errors, images that don’t load, thumbs that don’t related to the full sized image and other stupid issues that program owners should be checking on a somewhat regular basis.

I reached out to a couple of program owners a few months back to use their FHGs on Shemale TGP but the galleries they offer are useless, due to a mix of the errors above.

Was told to give it a few weeks… It’s now been a few months and they’re still fucked
at this day in age, sponsors should just post zips of the content. if an affiliate can't make an HTML gallery, they can watch a couple youtube videos.

hosting is dirt cheap. it takes more time to submit the gallery than build it.

so back to the OP, every sponsor who's still active should dump zip links to a page once a month.

and if i was an affiliate, i would grab content from the sponsor hosted galleries and make my own.

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I wish more sponsors provided newer FHG
we, as most of the centroprofits affiliate program models do, update new FHGs every month...

I personally update 3 new FHG every week, they vary between masturbation & toys, yogapants, nylons, panties & lingerie, cumshot & creampie, roleplay & cosplay, outdoor & flashing...

always something new to use & view @ https://centroprofits.com
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we, as most of the centroprofits affiliate program models do, update new FHGs every month...

I personally update 3 new FHG every week, they vary between masturbation & toys, yogapants, nylons, panties & lingerie, cumshot & creampie, roleplay & cosplay, outdoor & flashing...

always something new to use & view @ https://centroprofits.com
that's awesome dedication to a dying industry lol

the question is who posts them and who looks at them?

i think social content is probably more relevant these days.

or something that they can post on Reddit, which i guess is social.

what's the traffic on FHGs? are there any 70 year olds rubbing out to galleries anymore? even my teen son said porn is free and boring.

i think we turned the corner on this thing about 5-6 years ago. the only paysites making money on PornCMS are hard-to-find fetish and gay.

and then the fucking billers make it hard for them to stay online. we just spent a fucking year dealing with this age verify bullshit. now fees are going up and approvals take months.

if you are a producer these days you better have something good and unique to sell or you can't make money.



this advice is irrelevant to solo models
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We still offer them, all automated and SFW where needed.
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that's awesome dedication to a dying industry lol

the question is who posts them and who looks at them?

i think social content is probably more relevant these days.

or something that they can post on Reddit, which i guess is social.

what's the traffic on FHGs? are there any 70 year olds rubbing out to galleries anymore? even my teen son said porn is free and boring.

i think we turned the corner on this thing about 5-6 years ago. the only paysites making money on PornCMS are hard-to-find fetish and gay.

and then the fucking billers make it hard for them to stay online. we just spent a fucking year dealing with this age verify bullshit. now fees are going up and approvals take months.

if you are a producer these days you better have something good and unique to sell or you can't make money.



this advice is irrelevant to solo models
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Paysites are where new production appears - that is, non-solo girl/OF content. Yes some produce for clips only but there are still very large paysites out there shooting new content and satisfying affiliates with promo clips and FHGs.

They just don't use porncms so you wouldn't know about them.
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They just don't use porncms so you wouldn't know about them.
I think he only brought it up as a data point since he has hosted X number of paysites over 19 years and knows which of those are still making sales and which have closed up or abandoned.
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Paysites are where new production appears - that is, non-solo girl/OF content. Yes some produce for clips only but there are still very large paysites out there shooting new content and satisfying affiliates with promo clips and FHGs.

They just don't use porncms so you wouldn't know about them.
for sure there's more producers not using porncms than using porncms.

maybe a handful of our sites still shoot. the majority live off rebills and their content library. my prices are cheap enough to make that easy.

there's still more than enough happy producers paying our bills for the last 18 years. my cms labor has averaged 2-3 hours of effort per week for many years.

how many hours per week of effort does your income cost?

side note - we earn a hell of a lot more in the markets, but we never withdraw it.

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I think he only brought it up as a data point since he has hosted X number of paysites over 19 years and knows which of those are still making sales and which have closed up or abandoned.
he's an old dog paysite owner. they get defensive

the paysite market has been pulling back for a decade. he knows it, his sales know it, gfy knows it, we all know it

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the paysite market has been pulling back for a decade. he knows it, his sales know it, gfy knows it, we all know it

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Actually my sales continue to grow because...wait for it...I keep releasing new paysites! LOL

Sure I get defensive because you seem to take glee in dancing on the graves of paysite owners, which is weird since your business supposedly depends on them (who else uses CMS's?).

Small paysites are indeed over - UNLESS you go for the volume approach (which I do). But I also predict, with AVS and other legislation coming down the pike, that paysites will make a cumback (!) once most porn is behind a paywall. That is cumming...
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Actually my sales continue to grow because...wait for it...I keep releasing new paysites! LOL

Sure I get defensive because you seem to take glee in dancing on the graves of paysite owners, which is weird since your business supposedly depends on them (who else uses CMS's?).

Small paysites are indeed over - UNLESS you go for the volume approach (which I do). But I also predict, with AVS and other legislation coming down the pike, that paysites will make a cumback (!) once most porn is behind a paywall. That is cumming...



to all this...

I continue to shoot new content & gain new members to my paysite every day

and yes, why is porncms so against paysite owners, come on, push for the paysites & see the positivity in them...

I agree with AVS either making a flop or pushing everything behind the paywall like a 1999 trip switch
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he's an old dog paysite owner. they get defensive

the paysite market has been pulling back for a decade. he knows it, his sales know it, gfy knows it, we all know it

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yea i heard it from people all the time, even people that aren't in the biz anymore.. "sales are amazing" "best year ever" "actually LOSER, my revenues are up this year (insert random percentage)" but when i ask what happened, why aren't they in the industry anymore? i get crickets or blocked... why?

Why?
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yea i heard it from people all the time, even people that aren't in the biz anymore.. "sales are amazing" "best year ever" "actually LOSER, my revenues are up this year (insert random percentage)" but when i ask what happened, why aren't they in the industry anymore? i get crickets or blocked... why?

Why?
facing reality is the only way to keep moving forward.

doing more "volume" of the same thing isn't going to convert to future success. the price per unit keeps dropping until there's no profit. (law of diminishing returns)

the only value i see - and mainly who i serve - is large fetish libraries. they typically own their fetish, but they have a very narrow audience. they just want a permanent online library. the biggest one i host is 73TB. maybe not huge but the cheapest price for that size library and replicated to a dozen media servers.

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We removed them 3 years ago and it had no impact at all on sales. Yes, we saw a drop in traffic, but it wasn't traffic that was converting.
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After doing some checks on this I can confirm that you are right. I think what we will do is just remove all nude content in our galleries so just have safe for work hosted galleries. We'll have to lose a lot of galleries but that's no problem as I don't think affiliates use them anyway!
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We removed them 3 years ago and it had no impact at all on sales. Yes, we saw a drop in traffic, but it wasn't traffic that was converting.
Out of interest why did you remove your hosted galleries?
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