hehe if they'd asked for 5 sample pictures that would have been something else entirely.

With these blog sites popping up left and right, the vast majority of content requests were webmasters asking for access to the site so they could post pictures with each update. So pretty much indefinite access to content. That's a big part of why we felt we had to step in and slow things down. A lot of affiliates were wanting unlimited amounts of content, seeing as they could pretty much get unlimited amounts of content and FHGs and video clips and this and that from so many other sponsors out there.

A few times, I tried saying "OK, but if you could only take like 15 or so pics per update that'd be great" the affiliate didn't much like that idea at all, said everyone else was giving them unlimited amounts, and needed unlimited if they were going to have any

So we did want to offer our affiliates more, but had to look at ways to do that while still retaining control over content distribution and not diluting our content or flooding the web with our stuff for free.

We will be launching CorbinPays.com shortly, which will be our webmaster resource site for our new and exclusive-access program that will have content for the select affiliates we will have, including:

- banners made specifically for individual affiliates (co-branded with us and them)
- content shot specifically for individual affiliates and provided to them to share with their surfers
- other free content to use on their sites
- a wide array of banners/graphics

among other things.

I definitely think you're right, Carrie, that affiliates obviously need resources from the sponsors and that'll help em both do well with the partnership. We just couldn't see how we'd go about giving as much as possible to affiliates without giving away the farm, so to speak. Until, that is, we decided to limit the number of affiliates and go controlled-access. Then, the problem was solved hehe