Gaming Affiliate Firm Closures

[joeyl]

KWBlue: Might want to keep a good record of what affiliate programmes close, under what cloud or not, or open again under new operatiion.

It's getting a bit convoluted, and keeping up as a player is'nt easy.

If you want players involved in your campaigns, you're going to have to set these complicated issues out for folk in a legible, user friendly manner.

I can recall Sportingbet, Sunderlands and Grand Prive getting up to this and that, but as a player, I don't always understand the specific semantics involved..

Cheers.

[universal4]

Good point.

Rick
Universal4

[casinobonusguy]

Another reason why I am going to stick to my belief that I need to wait til a casino is in business a couple years before touching them.It is going to the point if a group is not listed on a stock exchange somewhere I will not be promoting them.
I feel bad for the affiliate managers of these new programs because I am sure more savvy webmasters will be doing this soon.

[TheGooner]

Agreed CasinoBonusGuy

It's been our policy from the start to not even look at ANY brand until they've been commercially operating for 12-24 months. And as you say I prefer to work with a simple clean financial set-up - public listed companies being best.

The recent downturn and shakeout just reinforces that approach.

I've had some funny phone discussions in the past with AMs who hear me say that and assume that it is just a bargaining position - they come back with what if we offer you xx% - or pay $xxxx up front ...


It's almost shock and surprise when they finally realise that no matter what sweeteners are offered their program simply cannot buy a listing.

[Christoff]

As this industry progressives, affiliates are sensitive to how stable operators are - this in turn means a better service to the players they refer.

Every affiliate can choose to promote who they like but with what has happened lately with Grand Prive and a few others, I can understand the need for more stability than ever.

From an operators' point of view......these cowboy outfits damage all our reputations to some degree but the field is becoming smaller for the more serious operator (which can only be good to some extent).

[kwblue]

KWBlue: Might want to keep a good record of what affiliate programmes close, under what cloud or not, or open again under new operatiion.

It's getting a bit convoluted, and keeping up as a player is'nt easy.

If you want players involved in your campaigns, you're going to have to set these complicated issues out for folk in a legible, user friendly manner.

I can recall Sportingbet, Sunderlands and Grand Prive getting up to this and that, but as a player, I don't always understand the specific semantics involved..

Cheers.

We do have all of this information in our database, BTW, would just have to 'mine' it and bring it into the open. Our database works much like a database in the industry I am from (engineering and pharmaceutical): We do not kill/delete a record, all records are saved for complete audit-trailing.

Getting to that data wouldn't be super-simple, because we archive the data to keep the structure more 'lean' for faster querying, but it is certainly possible.

[buddy]

I like a good % like everyone else - but tell me your track record and why it might work on one of my sites. I like true partnerships 100% -- Not getting my rev share or getting jerked around for months is not cool

Agreed CasinoBonusGuy

It's been our policy from the start to not even look at ANY brand until they've been commercially operating for 12-24 months. And as you say I prefer to work with a simple clean financial set-up - public listed companies being best.

The recent downturn and shakeout just reinforces that approach.

I've had some funny phone discussions in the past with AMs who hear me say that and assume that it is just a bargaining position - they come back with what if we offer you xx% - or pay $xxxx up front ...


It's almost shock and surprise when they finally realise that no matter what sweeteners are offered their program simply cannot buy a listing.