Looks like we have 3 days to pull 10 years worth of WEG Cash links

[Simon]

Originally Posted by babymaker

And redtube.eu lol they ripped off the rip off artists.

From a story in February:

RedTube said that Boca Raton, Fla.-based WEG purchased RedTube.org, RedTube.pl, RedTube.fr, RedTube.com.br, RedTube.br and RedTube.ca between 2007 and this year in an attempt to ride on RedTube.com’s coattails of “success, fame and goodwill” by using “confusingly similar names and domains.”

-- more at http://www.xbiznewswire.com/view.php?id=117387

Someday adult affiliates are going to understand that most sponsors and most affiliates are not partners in any way, shape or form. In fact, in many cases they're on opposing sides. SheepGuy has a good point about identifying those sponsors who fuck over affiliates and making sure not to send any traffic at all to them, no matter now enticing a Pay-Per-Sale offer they may make. (Ideally we would have a big, powerful affiliate group with an "approved sponsors" list that good sponsors would want to be on and stay on.)

Unfortunately, by the time most affiliates realize this, many other sponsors will have also realized that they no longer really need a big affiliate network. The new paradigm is that the people will find the porn, all you have to do is offer it for free...so who needs affiliates.

Note to those who think the partnership paradigm is still workable, give some thought to how much notice you give a sponsor if you decide they're not converting well enough for you and you're going to replace their links or move them off your higher-traffic pages. How many of us send the sponsor an email telling them their links will be coming down in 3 days?

Anyway, my point is we need to protect ourselves and not think that we're safe from this kind of thing happening over and over again in the coming years as we get closer and closer to the convergence point for Internet and television. At that point there will be room for only a few very large affiliates (some made up of networks of big affiliates who'll still have to band together to be large enough to matter anymore).

So, that's my happy thought for today.