Most affiliates who have been active for 36 months or longer or who had a high percentage of US based players experienced a significant drop off in earnings.
This is a result of UIGEA, tightened banking, Player drop off due to long withdrawel delays, US and Canadian consumer concerns over legality, and the withdrawel of many programs from the US and Canadian Markets.
The only people who were NOT effected were newbies who didnt have an exisiting account base to lose and affiliates who had concentrated their marketing efforts outside the US and therefore did not see the same drop off the rest of us did.