A whale should be define more by the money they bring in then amount of joins. Also a Whale imho is someone who can also give consistency in traffic. No Spikes of Happyness and then few days of sorrow.

Problem now is so few Whales around it is now Programs who compete with each others to keep them with higher payouts, prepays.....

If you find someone that can be a whale, treat him well... Very Well!!!!!

10K + per month is a whale affiliate...

You will hardly find more than 5-10 in 90% of adult sponsors nowadays...

And we are talking about affiliates HERE... AGAIN... AFFILIATES.. not massive sites owned by companies managed by several employees sending lots of sales to sponsors...

PARIODO.

true,

I know of a few affs making 1k day to just 4-5 sponsors

Affiliates in general, it includes "massive sites with several employees".
Even if we wanted to group separately as you said, as a program how we know how many employees or bathrooms they got? We don't ask it in join forms.
Let them say it, how you compare a filipino "office" with 5 people, basically an home with a few bro and cousins who sleep and are feeded there, with a Canada office full of bathrooms?
By my guess, most of affiliates are an one person venture from home; those who are 2+ people from an office are more likely selling prepaid spots per period, not going revshare.
But eventually with the big programs they go revshare too, just how many big programs are there, just a dozen.
So how we divide programs? So whale programs and mid programs and small programs.
For a whale program, a whale affiliate is $1000+ a day (I mean not sales, but payout TO affiliate).
For a mid program a whale affiliate is $300+ a day (payout to affiliate, his part).
For a small program a whale could be even $50 a day :)

Love these threads :)


It's all relative. A whale to me is an affiliate who can consistently make sales for years. That's the only way success is measured and long term health for a program.

Things are very spread out now. Any loyal affiliate to my program who appreciates the content and knows how to sell it is a whale to me.

80/20 rule. 20% of your work gets you 80% or your money

That's your opinion, NOT THE TRUTH.

The TRUTH is that we are talking about SINGLE AFFILIATES as stated by severel people above... Massive pornstar sites or such dont qualify, since they have several employees...

If a single affiliate does 3K per month, a site doing the same with 10 employees will do 30K per month... Obvisouly.. and that doesn't qualify each of their single affiliate as a whale.

BTW what kind of tricky methods do your webmasters use to send cam sales? HUH?

Nevermind, you wil not answer and run away..

PIRIOD.

I have to agree

I have no idea of the tricky methods, I am just the cam site, the secrets is holded by those guys who send me sales :)

It is all relative. A whale to a 10 joins a day program is a lot different than a whale to a 300 join program.

doing $1000 in revenue a day should qualify you as a whale.

51 sales!