I had posted regarding this on another board...but it deems repeating.
We relinquished our business relationship with the GIM sites because it became unprofitable. The sponsor model of having too high payouts for increasingly unprofitable traffic does not work, it's certainly not the wave of the future. We at ARS were losing money for having such high payouts at very low trial price points. That's why we decided to be proactive in getting rid of that program, dropping the BYOT cookie-cutter sites, not charging members too much per month, and positioning our business model to be a true win/win/win situation.
Webmasters win because they are getting a great payout, with sites that RETAIN, and their income grows from immediate to long term profits; ARS webmasters also have complete control of their exit traffic, receive free insurance and get weekly payouts to name a few.
ARS wins because we are giving webmasters and ourselves a very strong foundation for future growth by offering high quality members areas that are profitable for everyone. And the customer wins because they are getting 100% exclusive content members areas through
www.ars4real.com , and a huge variety of unique quality members areas through
www.arschamps.com .
I'm very happy to see the GIM sites come back as CHAMPS sites; they will not only be improved upon in price points, but also the members areas will boast their content as well as the DVD quality CHAMPS content (fyi: scenes can only be used a max of 5 times across the whole AVP network). Members will have access to every other site in the Adult Video Planet portfolio too. GIM will have to follow the same guidelines as ALL CHAMPS sites.
It's no secret that some programs stoop to shaving webmasters because they're running unprofitable business models right now - a few of them will make the necessary changes, and some will fall out completely. Either way, we'll continue to grow and change with the times giving webmasters a huge variety of money making options.
That's my 2 pennies anyway.
