Manhunter Video

HI all,

Is there anyone on the list from PPVNetworks or Manhunter Video? Anyone on these boards use them?

Should I be concerned that they took over a week to approve my new webmaster account?

What's up with sponsors these days? Is everyone making so much money that they can't be bothered answering e-mails from potential new webmasters? I'm waiting over a week to here back from three different sponsors.

Seriously, is anyone using Manhunter Video, is this indicative of their service, or is this an oddity?

How about Nightcharm and Maleflixxx.tv? Are either of them reading this board? If so, could you provide a contact e-mail address since your contact areas of your websites don't appear to be getting me anywhere.

Thanks
Dzinerbear

I believe Manhunter just licenses their content to PPVnetworks. They are not owned by the same company.

Did you have to send a contract to PPVnetworks? I tried signing up with them (their products look great), but I got discouraged by the all the hoops I had to jump through.

MaleFlixxx worked well for me about a year ago, but they haven't updated their banners or promotional material for so long, I stopped promoting them.

Signed up for NightCharm... never did any sales with them.

Thanks Xstr8guy,

Yes, I signed up through ppvnetworks, but since it took well over a week for them to contact me (or approve me) I e-mailed a fairly polite direct e-mail wherein I said: Before I promote your products all over my site, can you tell me why it has taken you a week and a half to reply to my original submission, is this a normal level of service for you?

I've yet to hear back from them. I wasn't trying to be a prick, I'm just tired of signing up with jackass sponsors who look good on the outside, but then once you get into it they're bogus, their product sucks, they look cheesy, their interface is impossible to work with, or it looks like you might never get paid.

So when a sponsor takes over a week and a half to say, "Yes, please send us traffic" I have to wonder will I be paid on time and will the traffic I send be met with crappy service.

And Xstra8guy, I'm having the same concerns about Maleflixxx. I've written them asking them when they might be updating some of their movie box covers and I'm not getting an answer.

As for Nightcharm, I e-mailed them asking them if they thought a particular site of mine might convert and if they thought it would, I asked if they could give me a trial membership to poke around for 24 hours and see what I'd be selling. To date, I've gotten no reply.

I'm pretty weary of the all-take-no-action side of this business. It'd be nice to find a half dozen sponsors worth promoting. So far MANcheck and Hot Desert Knights are the only ones I'm having luck with.

Cheers
Dzinerbear

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I'm pretty weary of the all-take-no-action side of this business. It'd be nice to find a half dozen sponsors worth promoting. So far MANcheck and Hot Desert Knights are the only ones I'm having luck with.

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Yep... I know the situation well. I hate having to veer away from a "tried and true" sponsor to try something new or different... and finding out that all the traffic was wasted.

Are you having good luck with BMB and HDK, now? My new sign-ups are way down and the rebills have slowed, too. Of course, maybe it has something to do with my poor production of new AVS sites.

I've been promoting existing sites instead of buliding new sites... and my AVS sales are up but my sponsor sales are down.

Have you tried the new HDK movie arcade site, yet? I sent them some traffic... no sales. :crybaby: Maybe I should try again.

As always... let me know if you find any good sponsors!;)

You know what's funny?

I'm still getting Bait Bus rebills and the occassional new sale... and I haven't actively promoted them in a year and a half. And they haven't updated the site for about that long, either!

When can we expect another smash like Bait Bus? I could sell that by sticking a banner up just about anywhere and not even try!

Nope, HDK is doing great for me. Butt Machine Boys didn't do very well, so I pulled most of the banners, just as I was doing that, it started to sell, so I left a few. I sold 5 or 6 memberships, nothing spectacular, but I'm going to look at them again.

Thanks for the tip on HDK cinema, I'll check it out. I did try their Making Gay Porn and it didn't do anything with my site.

Cheers
Dzinerbear

Will West used to run MGP. When he left HDK, he says, they lost interest in it. I don't think they are doing anything with it now. Too bad... it was a great idea.

If you're looking for "Straight" guy content, we have a great reality site that sells very well ... follow my sig for more details.

I will check out some of the sites that were mentioned above. I am always looking for good sites for my exits.

Good luck with all your promotions!

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Originally posted by Dzinerbear
Should I be concerned that they took over a week to approve my new webmaster account?

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Only a week? Pffft...

Been waiting ovr a month now for acceptance into the Falcon Studios affiliate program.

Kindof a shame too because we get some great traffic that could be sent to their sites specifically :(

Ah well im sure they will accept us sometime lol

Regards,

Lee

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Hey Dzinerbear and Hi xstr8guy (we spoke a while back when i was living in Toronto),

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Hi there,

Regarding manhuntervideo.tv, and our dozens of other affiliate programs, including allgaymovies.tv, hotdesertknights.tv, bearmentv.com, etc. ... I apologize on behalf of Naomi for the delay.

We have one person who handles affiliate programs. Because we handle the programs on an individual basis, and because we operate several hundred sites, it can take up to a week to get an account completed. We do not at this time allow automated submissions of affiliate programs, because we get too much riff raff. We like to have a personal relationship with our affiliate.

We have many affiliates doing extremely well with our programs; ie. URL coded links to existing sites. For larger affiliates, we can create branded theatres. Take a look at... for example... bearmentv.com .... this site makes over $5,000 per month and it is an affiliate's site.... the owner of the site owns no content.

I hope this helps answer your question :)

Damian

Thanks for the response, Damian. Your affiliate program is kind of confusing to me. The product looks very exciting, but I'm not sure how to go about promoting your theaters. For example, I initially signed up for HDKtv... so does this mean that this is the only site that I'll receive referral credit. Aren't your sites all linked together, so if I send a surfer to HDKtv and they end up at Manhunter and purchase viewing time... does this mean I get no percentaqe of the sale?

DID THAT MAKE ANY SENSE?

I agree it can be confusing... that's because there are so many configurations and parameters possible... hence the human touch... here goes :)

As for promoting multiple theatres: YES you can promote multiple theatres with one account. The report will automatically break down revenues from each respective site.

The only difference on your end is in the construction of the affilite URLs. There is a document online in our Webmaster Resources section that explains how to do this, otherwise, you can just ask one of us :)

Webmaster Resources:
http://www.ppvnetworks.com/ppvnethom...asterresources

Here's a convenient little chart of Affiliate URLs for Theatres:
http://www.ppvnetworks.com/ppvnethom...ortAscending=0

As for getting credit when users hop from one site to another... this is how it works. The user is "flagged" as being yours when they hit the site, or any site they visit from the popunder guide. Other than that, they cannot be tracked. If they join within 30 days, they are permanently flagged as your user... and any money they ever spend is tracked to you. If they don't join within 30 days, them they are open game again to be someone elses.

Our revenue share is 50% of memberships and 25% of pay-per-view. On avegage, its about 40% of total revenue.

I hope that makes sense !

D

Thanks Damian and Reena for your responses. Damian, I'll be in touch privately to talk to you about a couple of things.

I'd like to add publicly that it's unfortunate that webmasters often have to air problems in public forums like this before getting the attention of the sponsor. I did send an e-mail to ppvnetworks on the weekend addressing my concerns in the delay, and I haven't heard back anything except for Damian's reply in this forum this afternoon.

It seems to me that webmasters could use some sort of an association or database that's more organized. Lists of sponsors on board like this are convenient to sift through, but are those sponsors any good or what's their reputation like?

Likewise, from a sponsor's point of view, I'd be pretty pissed off if I were tarred and feathered publicly because some webmaster had a bug in their bonnet about something.

It would be nice if we could come up with a way to resolve these sorts of problems.

All I really want from a sponsor is communication. A simple "I'm looking into your situation and I'll reply as quickly as possible" would make me happy. I'm not unreasonable, I don't need the world to jump when I call, but letting me know that I'm not being ignored sure would go along way to keeping my happy.

Perhaps the owners of this board could think about starting a database where webmasters could rate and comment on sponsors. And I would hope that it would contain positive and helpful information, too.

Just a thought.
Dzinerbear

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Originally posted by Dzinerbear
Perhaps the owners of this board could think about starting a database where webmasters could rate and comment on sponsors. And I would hope that it would contain positive and helpful information, too.

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Hmm...

A good idea how about this for an option...

What if we added a 'rate me' and a 'feedback' section to every listing we have on the GWW directory?

This way if you use a sponsor that is listed and like them (or not) you can let others know about your experiences with each of the sites listed?

Think that could work?

Regards,

Lee

Dzinerbear,

The hotdesertknights.tv theatre does extremely well for all involved.

Let me know if you're interested in promoting it. I can get you setup immediately.

D

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Lee, I think the "rate me" section with comments would be a wonderful addition to the forum. I've been looking for several months for some good sponsors to promote along with MANcheck, my main sponsor, on my Euro young guy site, and I tell you it hasn't been easy.

I used the sponsors section from this forum, but it's still pretty much a blind crap shoot. The only good thing is that they're all collected here in one spot, so you can move through them pretty quickly.

But, just because they're listed here doesn't mean they're any good, that they convert, that they pay on time, etc.

However, I think if you're going to create a rating system, the sponsors also need to have a way of replying to bad ratings. What if the webmaster isn't telling us the whole story? What if they're outright lying? Or perhaps the webmaster's complaints were unfounded or unreasonable. We need to be fair to sponsors as well. And webmasters need to add good ratings and comments, too.

I, of course, want to know about bad sponsors, but I also wanted to know about the ones who bend over backwards to help you.

Cheers
Dzinerbear

HI all,

I just wanted to give credit where it's due, Damian at PPVNetworks has been great over the past 24 hours at helping me sort things out, providing me with link codes and banners.

Thanks Damian.

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Originally posted by Dzinerbear
HI all,

Is there anyone on the list from PPVNetworks or Manhunter Video? Anyone on these boards use them?

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Damn! I've never seen such fierce competition for the attention of webmasters...

Well, I have had sex with webmasters to get their traffic, so I guess I am guilty too. Over 10k uniques required for that offer :)

As for Manhunter Video:
- We have all of their releases
- We get their new releases first... for example, we are releasing Cowboy Fantasies this week
- We host their offcially promoted theatre, ManhunterVideo.tv (which we have an Affiliate Program for, btw)
- Our theatre outperformed "all others" and hence has remained their official theatre for 3 years now!

Hugs!

p.s. but Reena and Drew are still great! :)

D

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Originally posted by DamianPPVNetworks

Damn! I've never seen such fierce competition for the attention of webmasters...

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FIERCE being the operative word...

To DZinerbear: No disrespect to PPV Networks. We're big fans of their work and their content! Just wanted to let you know what's out there.

much love to Damien!

:grin:

Thank God things didn't become ugly... I was starting to think this was GFY.