Matrix Posted April 19, 2019 Share Posted April 19, 2019 Openload, one of the world's most-visited sites, particular by those looking for movies and TV shows, has ended its uploader affiliate program. The announcement is tied to falling advertising revenues and related economic stresses. Last year it was reported that Openload generated more traffic than Hulu or HBO Go. Earlier this month we reported on the plight of Rapidvideo, a popular file-hosting site that specializes in hosting videos. The site previously allowed visitors to view content uploaded by other users for free, with the system funded by advertising. However, interesting market conditions forced the platform into a surprise announcement. “We can’t finance ourselves from internet ads any longer,” the company said while revealing plans for a $5 per month subscription plan. One of the main problems, it transpired, was the massive influx of Kodi users, whose ‘pirate’ add-ons access the site’s content, bypassing its advertising. “We have around 650 Gbit/s of bandwidth in use, while 320 Gbit/s is for KODI, download tools, etc and for that we don’t get paid by the ads,” the site explained. In comments to TF, Rapidvideo said that the add-ons in question are able to use the URL from the site’s HTML5 player, resulting in huge amounts of unmonetized video traffic. The need for a subscription package would help to mitigate that issue, the site added. Of course, Rapidvideo isn’t the only site to suffer from this and similar problems. This week, another file-sharing giant changed its business model, again citing unsustainable ad revenues as the cause. Openload is currently one of the top 250 most-visited sites on the entire Internet. Last year we reported how it generates more traffic than Hulu or HBO Go. However, similar pressures to those being experienced by Rapidvideo have forced the platform towards change. The big immediate difference is that users who upload content to the site will no longer get paid based on the number of views their videos get. That’s a bit like YouTube de-monetizing all of its most popular contributors. “We are closing our Affiliate Program from 15/04/2019. Balances which exceed the minimum withdraw amount of 20$ can be withdrawn until 30/04/2019!” the site said in a statement to its many affiliates. “Unfortunately we had to do this step due to recent events and ongoing weakness in generating revenue from advertising. In order to keep the service alive and stable we have to go this way.” Only the operators of the site know how many of these uploading affiliates it has but there was certainly no shortage of criticism online when the program was withdrawn. That being said, all businesses are affected by changes in the market and if the revenue doesn’t pay the bills, then that’s life. Affiliates aren’t paid a lot. The image above (redacted for privacy reasons) shows the Openload affiliate panel. The user had made less than $9 but of course, he won’t be getting any money because he didn’t accumulate at least $20. Others, however, report being paid out, as promised. The other key issue is that affiliate programs incentivize users to upload content to a particular service, with YouTube operating the most famous program of all. It’s easy to see how the removal of the Openload program could result in less content being uploaded there. However, the operators of the site say they are fully aware of what might happen. “All our decisions are final. We are aware of the consequences,” a representative said. For now, it appears that a handful of other services are rallying round in an attempt to attract former Openload affiliates to their sites. Whether that will be successful will remain to be seen, but there certainly appears to be a connection between the size of these sites and their ability to earn revenue from ads. The bigger they are the harder it is, apparently. Which means that successful sites might eventually start suffering from the same issues as both Rapidvideo and Openload. View Original Article. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Openload, one of the world's most-visited sites, particular by those looking for movies and TV shows, has ended its uploader affiliate program. The announcement is tied to falling advertising revenues and related economic stresses. Last year it was reported that Openload generated more traffic than Hulu or HBO Go. Earlier this month we reported on the plight of Rapidvideo, a popular file-hosting site that specializes in hosting videos. The site previously allowed visitors to view content uploaded by other users for free, with the system funded by advertising. However, interesting market conditions forced the platform into a surprise announcement. “We can’t finance ourselves from internet ads any longer,” the company said while revealing plans for a $5 per month subscription plan. One of the main problems, it transpired, was the massive influx of Kodi users, whose ‘pirate’ add-ons access the site’s content, bypassing its advertising. “We have around 650 Gbit/s of bandwidth in use, while 320 Gbit/s is for KODI, download tools, etc and for that we don’t get paid by the ads,” the site explained. In comments to TF, Rapidvideo said that the add-ons in question are able to use the URL from the site’s HTML5 player, resulting in huge amounts of unmonetized video traffic. The need for a subscription package would help to mitigate that issue, the site added. Of course, Rapidvideo isn’t the only site to suffer from this and similar problems. This week, another file-sharing giant changed its business model, again citing unsustainable ad revenues as the cause. Openload is currently one of the top 250 most-visited sites on the entire Internet. Last year we reported how it generates more traffic than Hulu or HBO Go. However, similar pressures to those being experienced by Rapidvideo have forced the platform towards change. The big immediate difference is that users who upload content to the site will no longer get paid based on the number of views their videos get. That’s a bit like YouTube de-monetizing all of its most popular contributors. “We are closing our Affiliate Program from 15/04/2019. Balances which exceed the minimum withdraw amount of 20$ can be withdrawn until 30/04/2019!” the site said in a statement to its many affiliates. “Unfortunately we had to do this step due to recent events and ongoing weakness in generating revenue from advertising. In order to keep the service alive and stable we have to go this way.” Only the operators of the site know how many of these uploading affiliates it has but there was certainly no shortage of criticism online when the program was withdrawn. That being said, all businesses are affected by changes in the market and if the revenue doesn’t pay the bills, then that’s life. Affiliates aren’t paid a lot. The image above (redacted for privacy reasons) shows the Openload affiliate panel. The user had made less than $9 but of course, he won’t be getting any money because he didn’t accumulate at least $20. Others, however, report being paid out, as promised. The other key issue is that affiliate programs incentivize users to upload content to a particular service, with YouTube operating the most famous program of all. It’s easy to see how the removal of the Openload program could result in less content being uploaded there. However, the operators of the site say they are fully aware of what might happen. “All our decisions are final. We are aware of the consequences,” a representative said. For now, it appears that a handful of other services are rallying round in an attempt to attract former Openload affiliates to their sites. Whether that will be successful will remain to be seen, but there certainly appears to be a connection between the size of these sites and their ability to earn revenue from ads. The bigger they are the harder it is, apparently. Which means that successful sites might eventually start suffering from the same issues as both Rapidvideo and Openload. View Original Article.
The AchieVer Posted April 19, 2019 Share Posted April 19, 2019 Both of us posted at the same time . I will delete the post. Regards Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karlston Posted April 19, 2019 Share Posted April 19, 2019 That's known as a Ninja Post , or being ninja'd Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator DKT27 Posted April 20, 2019 Administrator Share Posted April 20, 2019 Now we will see who is an honest uploader and who is doing for money there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
funkyy Posted April 21, 2019 Share Posted April 21, 2019 When the heat is on these guys always run with their bank accounts (pockets) stuffed with money. They plan their getaway (life span of their site) well in advance knowing that sooner or later they will attract the attention (wrath) of Hollywood and the music industry, so they issue a financial excuse and then Phfft, they're gone like Kaiser Sozi.😀😀😀 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
debebee Posted April 21, 2019 Share Posted April 21, 2019 sites like this will eventually go down like mega version 1. life will go on.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steven36 Posted April 22, 2019 Share Posted April 22, 2019 On 4/20/2019 at 11:46 AM, DKT27 said: Now we will see who is an honest uploader and who is doing for money there. The only sites so far that is keeping is sites that use other ads to get to there links , so no sites i know upload for free they have server cost and websites are not free to run so there geting money some how. Only on some forums do you have some uploaders who don't do it for money. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator DKT27 Posted April 23, 2019 Administrator Share Posted April 23, 2019 23 hours ago, steven36 said: The only sites so far that is keeping is sites that use other ads to get to there links , so no sites i know upload for free they have server cost and websites are not free to run so there geting money some how. Only on some forums do you have some uploaders who don't do it for money. Agreed. But I am not talking about server costs, I am talking about those doing for profits. Videos somehow bring in big profits for such sites, that is why I am saying if they are doing it for money or for sharing. Another thing is, the above host used to give a lot of ads inside the videos itself, so it was easy for most sites to select it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steven36 Posted April 23, 2019 Share Posted April 23, 2019 1 hour ago, DKT27 said: Agreed. But I am not talking about server costs, I am talking about those doing for profits. Videos somehow bring in big profits for such sites, that is why I am saying if they are doing it for money or for sharing. Another thing is, the above host used to give a lot of ads inside the videos itself, so it was easy for most sites to select it. Well all of them have stop using it accept for sites that use other ads to hide there Links you can go read it at the Webmaters forum for yourself there replacing openload with others soon it will just be a site like a 100 others that don't pay out that no one hardly uses , but i'm not posting the link to that topic here because i don't want to tech people how to profit off file sharing and it's against rules here. . This is nothing new direct download and streaming blogs have always been a business to make money so is torrent sites .They risk there butt providing it for you and you can't really blame them if they don't want upload and not get paid . I use to upload warez and not get paid but in 2011 i woke up to the fact it was too much like a job and not worth the risk and not get paid ,so i retired from uploading for the public even though i love helping people out , i love not getting in trouble more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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