Average commissions at Paddy Power continue to trend downwards as mystery fees, charges and levies eat into net affiliate payouts.
Here is our trend there ...
2012 - 2400 per month.
2013 - 1800 per month.
2014 - 1000 per month.
2015 - 900 per month.
Last month (Dec 2015) was worth 1300 GBP
Just to refresh minds - when someone reported that fees were being reported online - I did a quick pull of 12 months data (Jun 2014 to May 2015) in the short time it was available.
This showed a gross revenue of 105,298 GBP, less fees and charges 90,067 to leave 15,231 net revenue.
That's right - fees and charges levied against the affiliate was a whopping 86% of the total profit!!
I attempted to discuss with their affiliate team - but while I got some help on the shop floor (AM contact) that was ended when their "Head of Affiliates" emailed saying this was too time consuming and they had more important things to do.
Clearly a discussion regarding the level of fees and exact nature of fees, and having transparency with their affiliate partners was not deemed a worthwhile task.
