SPONSORS: Where the heck are the new banners?

[juggernaut]

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.

[madleinx]

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.

Useless, are your banners for lease?

[ponygirl]

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)

Ponygirl