Verotel closing all of it's affiliate programs

[TBFS]

So we noticed that the last two weeks no sales and rebills were showing in our Verotel affiliate dashboard.

We contact the Verotel team and this is what they responded:
"We unfortunately had to stop our affiliates program last week."

Since there was zero communication about this I thought I'd give a heads up for the affiliates on this forum...

[The Porn Nerd]

Unbelievable!

[femdomdestiny]

Who set this trend in the industry? Scumbags from Epoch?

[Tim]

ah crap

[CaptainHowdy]

Originally Posted by Tim

ah crap

. . .

[pornmasta]

Is there still a way to be affiliate of something ?
If yes, how ?

[mechanicvirus]

Oh shit, there's still a few sites on there like Body In Mind, Sanktor, Chocolate Models.

Wonder what will happen next.

[fuzebox]

Running the affiliate program and sending commission payments on the behalf of someone else could take on a lot of extra risk and liability that was probably not worth it for Verotel.

Any of the verotel programs that want to maintain their affiliate channel will have to move to NATS (is there a cheaper affiliate tracking solution that supports Verotel? I have no idea in 2024.)

[AmeliaG]

YMMV but my experience with Verotel has always been that they are bad payers.

[mechanicvirus]

Originally Posted by fuzebox

Running the affiliate program and sending commission payments on the behalf of someone else could take on a lot of extra risk and liability that was probably not worth it for Verotel.

Any of the verotel programs that want to maintain their affiliate channel will have to move to NATS (is there a cheaper affiliate tracking solution that supports Verotel? I have no idea in 2024.)

Yep, I was actually surprised I was still getting paid by programs on Verotel since around 2019-2020.

[todservices]

I used Verotel back in 2002-2006
Did not even know they were still up and running

[feetnerd]

we're fucked, it's over

[bdsmkeeper]

Originally Posted by mechanicvirus

Oh shit, there's still a few sites on there like Body In Mind, Sanktor, Chocolate Models.

Wonder what will happen next.

yes thats sad guys , but beside VEROTEL we have our own affiliate program since 2019.
payouts every month. welcome

https://partner.sanktor.com

[BigFurry]

Originally Posted by bdsmkeeper

yes thats sad guys , but beside VEROTEL we have our own affiliate program since 2019.
payouts every month. welcome

https://partner.sanktor.com

Nice, but you should use NATS if you want affiliates, that's what they trust. Many affiliates won't sign up these self-developed affiliate platforms.

[femdomdestiny]

Originally Posted by mechanicvirus

Yep, I was actually surprised I was still getting paid by programs on Verotel since around 2019-2020.

why people were surprised? They were reliable till this moment. Their problem was the lack of sites using their service

[femdomdestiny]

Originally Posted by BigFurry

Nice, but you should use NATS if you want affiliates, that's what they trust. Many affiliates won't sign up for these self-developed affiliate platforms.

Exactly. Besides that, many webmasters won't signup to multiple programs to spread their revenue. This is why CCbill and Verotel were cool, all revenue comes in one place.

[mechanicvirus]

Originally Posted by bdsmkeeper

yes thats sad guys , but beside VEROTEL we have our own affiliate program since 2019.
payouts every month. welcome

https://partner.sanktor.com

Thanks! Will sign up and push traffic under this.

[mechanicvirus]

Originally Posted by femdomdestiny

why people were surprised? They were reliable till this moment. Their problem was the lack of sites using their service

Reliable, yes. Surprised because a lot of affiliates probably weren't making the minimum payout from Verotel often, considering a lot of the sites on there were smaller operations.

I promoted mostly lesser known nude art websites and niches like stripclubs, strippers. Most people promote Brazzers and Onlyfans leaks now so yea.

[fris]

i never liked their linking structure

[femdomdestiny]

The situation is worse and worse. Anyway, anyone knows what this crap means? (chaturbate)

In compliance with GDPR regulations, we will soon discontinue affiliate cookie tracking upon ad load, and to better align with such regulations we will instead measure upon ad engagement. Therefore the 'Unique Hits' column in your stats page will be 'Engaged Hits'.

[HTMwrestling]

Well this sucks. Wasn't getting much, but it was enough to cover hosting fees.

[BigFurry]

Originally Posted by femdomdestiny

The situation is worse and worse. Anyway, anyone knows what this crap means? (chaturbate)

In compliance with GDPR regulations, we will soon discontinue affiliate cookie tracking upon ad load, and to better align with such regulations we will instead measure upon ad engagement. Therefore the 'Unique Hits' column in your stats page will be 'Engaged Hits'.

I think it means the cookie won't be placed when the ad loads, only when it's clicked.

[2MuchMark]

Why not redirect your traffic to CCBill-powered affiliate sites?

[V_RocKs]

I used to love them. For much the same reason I used to love, and kinda still do, CCBill. I could promote 250 piddly ass programs (and five large ones) and aggregate the payouts into one lump sum. While I still do great with CCBill, Verotel sites have shrink in numbers and traffic.

[mechanicvirus]

Originally Posted by V_RocKs

I used to love them. For much the same reason I used to love, and kinda still do, CCBill. I could promote 250 piddly ass programs (and five large ones) and aggregate the payouts into one lump sum. While I still do great with CCBill, Verotel sites have shrink in numbers and traffic.

This is what I noticed too, around 2008 or so Verotel was quite strong in the celeb game and had a ton of sites like that on there. Of course we all know what happened next, I noticed tons of sites not being on Verotel anymore come 2010 and later.