I agree, Lee. Hence why I was talking revshare and not PPS.

If you're wondering who gets richer, the affiliate or the producer, that's a tough question to answer. It depends on the expenses of each company and how much business they're doing.

Not to mention this isn't a 1:1 relationship. An affiliate like GayGeek sends traffic to hundreds of different sites, each of which has multiple (sometimes hundreds) of affiliates sending them traffic.

So who makes more money? It depends on the producer and it depends on the affiliate. I'd say that producers ultimately have a higher level of variance in their income than affiliates do. They have the ability to invest more money in their business and extract a greater return. A greater overhead is not necessarily an advantage though, and many a porn business has gone bankrupt because their businesses are much more difficult to run.

I'd say you should ask yourself what sort of investment you're looking to put into the business. If you're young or ambitious and want to spend years building up a company with a significant initial investment and your profits being reinvested into the business, you may do well on the production side.

But if you like the idea of spending your day quietly in a home office and don't want to be tied down to a business with a mess of legal and practical requirements, then you might prefer the affiliate side of the industry.

--Aaron