Do we, as an adult webmaster community, oppose supporting adult versions of YouTube?

[LB]

Originally Posted by jayeff

Affiliates are paid too much.

I don't mean to diminish your post, but i agree with this.

I do a lot of mainstream work and I am paid a fraction of what I am paid in adult.

However the payouts to affiliates will only tone down once we manage to cut affiliates out of the business. This is a process which has already been started and the people who insert themselves between traffic sources and sponsors are becoming fewer and fewer.

[Allfetish]

Originally Posted by LB

I don't mean to diminish your post, but i agree with this.

I do a lot of mainstream work and I am paid a fraction of what I am paid in adult.

However the payouts to affiliates will only tone down once we manage to cut affiliates out of the business. This is a process which has already been started and the people who insert themselves between traffic sources and sponsors are becoming fewer and fewer.

I like to keep note of who wants to cut me out of their business. Then I make sure to give them their wish. I think more affiliates should consider doing this.

[jayeff]

Originally Posted by LB

However the payouts to affiliates will only tone down once we manage to cut affiliates out of the business.

I have no doubt that is the direction many will take and among the first will doubtless be many of the very same people who were falling over themselves to raise affiliate payments just a few years ago. Unfortunately, they still haven't learned the right lessons and cutting out affiliates is going to prove as short-sighted as everything else so far.

[LB]

Originally Posted by jayeff

I have no doubt that is the direction many will take and among the first will doubtless be many of the very same people who were falling over themselves to raise affiliate payments just a few years ago. Unfortunately, they still haven't learned the right lessons and cutting out affiliates is going to prove as short-sighted as everything else so far.

Some of the best paysites I have seen, with concepts that I know make them amazing sales either point blank refuse to take on affiliates, or only take them on after they have enjoyed a long period of exclusive promotion.

I didn't put my point very well before and it came off a little wrong. What I am suggesting is that the middle man is being cut out. Its the site owners with their traffic who are increasingly going straight to the sponsor, giving less traffic out to others for free, or asking submitters to start paying for a piece of the pie.

Anyhow I am straying off topic ... sorry