KasinoKing
Player turned affiliate.
Making the news now!
(Well... the GPWA/APCW news at least!
KK
(Well... the GPWA/APCW news at least!
KK
Exactly my thought process too, theives.This is a huge shame. I thought affiliatehub were a decent program until this.
I have read the email and it seems to say that the point of this change is to encourage affiliates to get more players and reward them for this. Not to penalise existing players.
However I'm pretty sure the vast majority of affiliates are not hitting over 5 players a month. For me Sky products convert to a depositing player at about 1 in 200 to targetted traffic.
So to meet the quota you need around 1000 clicks a month. As many affiliates manage multiple programs this only seems possible if you are a super affiliate or sky is your top program.
I can't help but feeling that rather than encourage affiliates to get more players, this will simply be a mass exodus of small/medium affiliates. I doubt super affiliates will warm to this either, I mean what's to stop another higher quota being applied? Or their commission being reduced?
For a company like Sky this is strange, they are usually the sort of company who invests heavily in its staff and products and has long term strategies. This seems like effectively stealing from existing affiliates while masquerading as trying to improve affiliate performance all to simply make a fast buck.
I'm not even sure why they are going to the Berlin Affiliate Conference. Who in their right mind would promote a company with these quotas? I don't envy the affiliate executives turning up at that conference.
With sky owning major sporting portals like oddschecker and sportinglife and with sky television I doubt they even need affiliates. This move certainly seems like a complete lack of respect for the affiliate community. Which let's not forget are just normal people with families, bills to pay etc who simply want to do an honest job for a company on the terms they agreed to when they signed up.