[Panky]

Originally Posted by pawsregd

It's the same concept as casinos. Why fly a whale in on a private jet and give them limo service and a luxury suite and tickets to any show they want and wait on them hand and foot when you can just send them an email and ask them to please come to your casino and make you money? Because it's all about establishing loyalty and retaining their business

Sponsors cater to the whales in many ways. Many negotiate pay out rates, they fly them here and there, give them perks at shows or wherever, give them all kinds of gifts and gadgets to keep their business. Submitting a FHG or so to the site every day through their submit form is not a huge perk. The whale can just as easily receive an email once per week with all the FHG's offered by that sponsor for that week and plug them directly into the script. Takes a whole 2 minutes if that. Simple copy paste or direct import. Even the descriptions and thumbs are provided for them. The script randomly pulls the sites from the list throughout the whole week. The whale doesn't need to do squat to update their site.

Now if the sponsor is submitting regular galleries on behalf of their affiliates, that's a different story. They aren't just sumbitting to one site, they are submitting to quite a few, some may even have deals in place with the site owner. That's beneficial to the whale and other affiliates because a gallery or so with their ID code in them is submitted to a few other sites increasing potential exposure and sales. These galleries are not necessarily FHG's either. If they were, it defeats the purpose of the submit when the site owner can just list the same FHG with their ID code in it and get credit for the sale.