?? care to elaborate?

Vivaldi,

I've had just the opposite - sales have just about doubled since 6/23 - maybe the banners I was using just sucked...now I'm using mostly text links |thumb

hehe...I only submit to LL owners :D

It is very interesting to see all the banners that are either changing or the image is just an X on the page. I'm paying right now to have banners made and asked for them to not be hardcore. But I also make my own as a one man band here. I have no inspiration other then UW banners / banner. I think I came to this post to late as I only saw a BIG red and white text one that was funny as hell.

Ponygirl, some sponsors are leaving their hardcore banners up for non-US people, just got to look around and maybe find some new ones. :) For the ones pulling them, I think it's different reasons for different ones -- some don't have the docs for them, some don't trust affils to use the right ones, some might be worried about that conspiracy clause. I really wish they'd get their new ones up though.

Some of my sponsors are a little confused about what softcore/exempt means too. I have one program that has S&M all over their new-2257exempt-nobody-needs-docs banners. |huh

Useless, are your banners for lease? :D

madleinx - yes, I'm lookin :)
I think this is going to affect the sponsors WAY more than the affiliates, to be honest - I see lots of shifting tides here. I don't care really what kind of banners are available, soft, hard, flashy or not it really doesn't matter if they are done well. I have also noticed that some of these new "softcore" banners are, well, not really softcore lol.

My main beef is the lack of them - if they had been replaced on an ongoing basis or all at once, I don't think I'd be bitching (or at least I'd find something else to bitch about:D)

Ponygirl

Pusher ... Thanks on the info. I might as well try mostly text link way :-)

Is this something most affiliates are looking for? I have never had a request for our banner psd files but woule be more then happy to start offering them if this is something affiliates can use.

I'm not sure how many affiliates have the necessary graphics software and know-how to use the psd's, but there are definitely some of us that do.

Kenny, at least reasonable PSD files with a clear background logo, and perhaps a text file with a short list of tag lines and such. It's not hard from there to come up with some reasonable banners.

The most boring job in the universe I think is using photoshop to cut out a logo from a site.

:(

Alex

I love it when a sponsor provides PSD files. It's nice not to have the same looking banner that everyone else has.

Lotzadollars is has added a lot more softcore banners and more are on the way.

:D

I agree with Kenny - one thing I would add to the text file would be link codes ;)