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

[desertz1]

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.

Doesn't BiM offer ccbill or Verotel? Not that ccbill is necessarily better lol but it's an alternative

[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.

[HTMwrestling]

Is there a list of open CCBill affiliate programs grouped by category?

[Tim]

Originally Posted by 2MuchMark

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

Because, in the UK at least, unless I'm missing something, it seem impossible to pay checks into a bank.

[NickBaer]

Mojo has am affiliate program. Link in my sig. CCBill has an affiliate program, but unlike all of their other programs, the new customer has to mention us by name, which is a bit of a joke..

[INever]

At one time, it was possible to use Verotel to process one's site without paying the annual MCVISA fee.

Verotel closed that loophole in ~'14.

Thanks for the good years before then...

[Tim]

Originally Posted by Tim

Because, in the UK at least, unless I'm missing something, it seem impossible to pay checks into a bank.

And the other ways CCBill pays out are not available in the UK it seems.

[Dibar]

I used to work with them for a long time, but mainly with just one sponsor (and a couple of really small ones). They dropped Verotel (or Verotel dropped them) just a couple of months before the current event, so what's happening now has no further consequences for me. Still, it's sad to see companies which allowed convenient "mass collection" of funds from smaller sponsors shut their doors like this.

[goodoff]

Originally Posted by Tim

And the other ways CCBill pays out are not available in the UK it seems.

Currently, you can receive ACH transfers to a Wise account, which is a global financial instrument available to all countries.

[AmeliaG]

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.

BodyInMind has a CCBill option, so you can at least swap their link out to a paying one.

[femdomdestiny]

Originally Posted by HTMwrestling

Is there a list of open CCBill affiliate programs grouped by category?

A good question

[nikki99]

verotel and yoursafe rocks

[CaptainHowdy]

Originally Posted by nikki99

verotel and yoursafe rocks

[mechanicvirus]

Originally Posted by Dibar

I used to work with them for a long time, but mainly with just one sponsor (and a couple of really small ones). They dropped Verotel (or Verotel dropped them) just a couple of months before the current event, so what's happening now has no further consequences for me. Still, it's sad to see companies which allowed convenient "mass collection" of funds from smaller sponsors shut their doors like this.

I have a feeling I know what program you are talking about. I was promoting several sites from a network on verotel and they got canned at some point about 3-4 months. Problem is that several popular free sites still promote their content.

[FatBastard]

Thanks for posting this I was wondering why there were no sales this month.

[BigFurry]

If any of the sites switch from Verotel affiliates to NATS or CCBILL, please add info here!

[femdomdestiny]

Originally Posted by BigFurry

If any of the sites switch from Verotel affiliates to NATS or CCBILL, please add info here!

Yep, because we will have to redirect clicks anyway

[mechanicvirus]

Originally Posted by BigFurry

If any of the sites switch from Verotel affiliates to NATS or CCBILL, please add info here!

BodyInMind: Body in Mind: Our Partner Program
Fit18: https://team18cash.com/
Sanktor: https://partner.sanktor.com/
StasyQ: https://stasyq.online

Trying to fill the list as I go along, but this is all I have for now, some programs have not switched yet.

[xxxclusive]

I said it before and say it again, the real high risk in adult biz are those 3rd party billers lol

[INever]

Originally Posted by Tim

Because, in the UK at least, unless I'm missing something, it seem impossible to pay checks into a bank.

ask the banks if you can take a picture of the check and deposit via their site or app. that's the popular stupid thing they're doing in the us.

[fuzebox]

Originally Posted by xxxclusive

I said it before and say it again, the real high risk in adult biz are those 3rd party billers lol

Direct merchant banks like Merrick and HBMS are not safer these days

[GUNNER]

Originally Posted by fuzebox

Direct merchant banks like Merrick and HBMS are not safer these days

Correct... and that is IF you can even get approved/setup
It it much, much harder to do today than a year or 2 ago

[mechanicvirus]

Bumping this thread people still ask me about Verotel, yes they are still closed.

[NETbilling]

Originally Posted by fuzebox

Direct merchant banks like Merrick and HBMS are not safer these days

We can help with safe direct MIDs. Feel free to reach out or hit me up to setup a meeting at Xbiz next week!

Thanks, Mitch