Maybe if people weren't promoting multiple rebills on flogs the model would work, as it has time and again in the past. It seems to me that AM is facing similar problems to the fishing industry (it's a little bit of a stretch but bear with me). The AM ecosystem is being taxed too hard by folks who are just trying to get in, get as much cash as possible today, and get out..."fuck the rest of the world, I gotta get PAID bitches!!!"(Individual fishing boat/crew). That affiliate make a great, non-compliant flog with 2 offers, buys a ton of media and then blows it out.(Speed-trawling with closed nets in waters that may or may not be legal to fish...probably not legal, actually but they don't really give a fuck). The problem is, once the consumer gets hit with 2 $80-$90 charges 14 days later (which they probably didn't know were coming) they charge that back. IMHO, that is not a quality lead for the advertiser. Then the advertiser gets pissed because they were paying top dollar for low quality leads and so they either scrub or withhold payment (not enough fish in the sea after being aggressively over fished).
I completely agree with what Jon said earlier and a few others have mentioned - there needs to be better communication between business partners, be it advertiser/pub, network/pub, or advertiser/network. So long as no one gets too greedy there is plenty to go around and profitable longterm relationships can be formed. But once someone decides to get too aggressive things begin to fall apart and in then end everyone loses.
*Puts on flame retardant suit and steps off of soap box*
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