And look at another aspect of this quota thing.
If the majority of programs adopts these, all affiliates will have to concentrate on a handful of brands to promote, so that they can be as sure as possible (still not sure, life plays tricks on you) that they will always meet their quota.
This of course will have an adverse effect on the entire industry, newcomers don’t have a chance of getting established.
New programs can’t get their foot in the door, nor can new affiliates. Which affiliate is able to make a quota when just starting out? Precious few if any.
So you end up with a handful of programs and affiliates making a killing, and the rest – bye bye.
So you are a program and think this sounds good and you want to be one of the programs that survive like this? Think again. With only a small pool of affiliates, you are now at their mercy. It’s much easier for 100 affiliates to get together and drop you for some disagreement than for thousands.
Someone needs to think this through, and programs need to see beyond their own noses here!