I'm one of the tier two webmasters (oh lucky me!). With over 300 Gold sites deactivated, what do I do? Move them to another avs and watch the same thing happen in a few months time? Is it only a matter of time before all avs's have the same fate? To be fair, I knew something was going on as I watched my AC checks get smaller and smaller over the last year as I worked harder and harder. I'm just really bitter right now. I've been working for months on updating my gold sites with the new scripts, making them more SE friendly, etc. in the hopes that I could recapture some of my lost revenue.
Ok, so Adult Check closed up shop. That's all fine. We all should be able to adapt and move on in this business. What pisses me off is the rebill issue. I can't keep MY rebills unless I get them 10+ sales a payperiod? Has anyone seen some of the sites they want us to promote?! I don't want to insult anyone here who may have built them but please.... my two year old could have done a better job!! Really! On top of all that, my design business has been based almost 90% on making premium avs designs for clients who no longer require the gold sites. Nice.
Sorry, just very frustrated and trying to get ready to move to Texas in 3 days from California and wondering what I'm going to do with such a loss of income.
Oh yeah, when I think it couldn't get any worse, I open my e-mail this morning to find an e-mail from my lovely friends at Acacia Media telling me I really MUST pay the licensing fee to use their streaming media technology right now.