THW Global: $25 an hour for watching videos?
There is no information on the THW Global website indicating who owns or runs THW Global.
The THW Global website domain (“thwglobal.com”) was registered privately on the 29th of May, 2016.
Alexa currently estimate that 45.6% of all traffic to the THW Global website originates out of Russia. The Ukraine is the second largest source of traffic, coming at 10.3%.
This suggests whoever is running THW Global could be based out of Russia.
As always, if an MLM company is not openly upfront about who is running or owns it, think long and hard about joining and/or handing over any money.
The THW Global Product Line
THW Global has no retailable products or services, with affiliates only able to market THW Global affiliate membership itself.
The THW Global Compensation Plan
The THW Global compensation plan claims affiliates will be able to earn ‘up to $25 per hour watching Better Than YouTube type videos.‘
THW Global affiliates who recruit new affiliates are paid $5 everytime a personally recruited affiliate earns $25.
Residual Commissions
Residual commissions in THW Global are paid out via a unilevel compensation structure.
A unilevel compensation structure places an affiliate at the top of a unilevel team, with every personally recruited affiliate placed directly under them (level 1):
If any level 1 affiliates recruit new affiliates, they are placed on level 2 of the original affiliate’s unilevel team.
If any level 2 affiliates recruit new affiliates, they are placed on level 2 and so on and so forth down a theoretical infinite number of levels.
THW Global cap payable unilevel levels at ten, with affiliates paid $1 per affiliate in their unilevel team ‘for each hour they spend watching BetterThanYouTube type videos‘.
Joining THW Global
THW Global affiliate membership is free.
The company does stress however that only people who are ‘over 21 with a HS Diploma‘ can join.
Conclusion
Similar to social media MLM companies who always claim they’re going to be the next Facebook, “we’re the next YouTube” features prominently in THW Global’s marketing.
At YouTube they pay out mega millions to people who get high traffic of people coming to their posting.
THW Global does just the opposite by paying millions to the viewers who watch content not place content.
Let’s get into a bit of content marketing 101. Do you know why YouTube pays content creators for views on uploaded content and not viewers?
Because without content there are no viewers. This is true of every advertising-based revenue model on the internet.
Content creators get paid and viewers get content. No content = no viewers.
If THW Global aren’t paying content creators, what content are they going to show their viewers?
International advertising giant needs over fifty thousands people over the age of 21 to invest up to 10 hours weekly giving comments on commercials, TV pilot programs, movie trailers, video surveys and so much more.
Over 90% can be done from any smart phone or computer anytime / anywhere 24/7. From the comfort of your home or on the road.
Advertising? So as a THW Global affiliate you’re going to be sitting there watching advertising for at least an hour to get paid.
How long before that gets old?
And as for $25 an hour, THW Global claim
most companies would pay a minimum of $1.50 a minute and sometimes more for a subscriber to watch their advertised content.
$1.50 a minute for watching ads? Who are they kidding???
If you were an advertiser, you want the largest possible audience to see your ads – and that means YouTube. So you create a campaign and it’s shown to viewers before, during and after content on the site.
Again, what content are THW Global going to be showing users other than ads. Or is it all ads?
If so, user engagement levels are going to tank, with THW Global affiliates likely to set up streams and leave their computers running. And this is “advertising” companies are willing to fork over $1.50 a minute for?
Please.
Another problem with THW Global’s model is the intent of the viewer. Nobody goes to YouTube to view ads. Viewers flock to the site to watch content, which YouTube lace with advertising.
The value of the content is what drives advertising dollars, again paying the content creators (and of course YouTube itself).
Tell a bunch of people they’ll make $25 an hour and enough of them will sit through anything. These people aren’t going to be engaged in the content though, which translates to advertising rates in the range of pennies.
Finally, let’s do some basic math.
There are currently 308,139 registered users claimed on the THW Global website. At $25 an hour per content viewed, just one hour watched by all of THW Global’s affiliates is $7.7 million dollars.
How many companies can you name that have $7.7 million dollar an hour advertising budgets?
And if we dial it back a bit further, how many global companies are going to be interested in spending millions every hour to advertise to a predominately Russian viewer-base?
THW Global is currently scheduled to launch on July 4th, after which one or more of the following will likely happen:
- content will be stolen from YouTube and low quality third-party ads will be slapped on, paying viewers peanuts
- viewers will be told “$25 an hour” was an estimate and they should be grateful for the few cents they’ve earned
- excuses will be made, nothing will launch and THW Global will join the rest of the “we’re gunna be the next …” MLM companies
On the flipside, anyone know how much an email list of 300,000+ gullible suckers goes for?
Update 28th August 2016 – Over the last day or so THW Global have revealed an updated compensation plan.
THW Global affiliates will now pay $995 and then $34.95 a month, with commissions paid out when they recruit others who do the same.
They said ‘up to’ $25 an hour, which could mean anything and would be variable.
And that will vary depending on the country. Apparently third world countries will be paid far less depending on the value of the dollar in their country.
Another company had tried this about 3 years ago. I wish I could remember their name!…
They stated the same exact things…get paid to watch videos. They also offered “free” registration. So of course people were signing up like flies because it was “free” … it was plastered all over Facebook just like this one is.
At the big “launch” everyone found out that the details involved a monthly fee. Needless to say the flies flew and the company flopped.
Will be interesting to see what happens here.
Sherm Mason is one of the affiliates complete with his own sign-in page – (removed) – so it’s 100% guaranteed to be a scam, either a Ponzi or a pyramid but probably both.
I already had the same ideas about this when I first saw it. Now you confirmed it.
Freebie money seekers look at the $25 and start drooling and telling other freebie hunters.
There is no free lunch people you still have to work for your honest dollar.
It amazes me how many times you will see things like this and know in seconds how scammy it is. People will flock and show it off to all they know like its golden.
Yes the gold is in the mailing list. And people wonder why they get so much spam these days.
Oh, this is easy. They may even be telling the truth about 25 per hour… Because you’ll NEVER watch 1 hour of stuff.
You’ll watching ONE 60 second ad, and be paid $0.42. That’s equivalent to $25/hr.
Lots of shadier schemes pull this “extrapolation” business.
Email lists are extremely valuable. All this is, is a way to build a massive email list for someone to use for their own advertising efforts. DUH !
And then they will tell you there are no videos to watch and check back tomorrow. If people really believe they can get paid to watch YouTube then word would have gotten out a long time ago.
Guess why this didn’t happen though?…
Now that’s something I hadn’t thought of. Guess they’ll send you one ad a week and call it a day.
Yeah… this thing is now being heavily promoted in Russia. I have already received a promotional e-mail from a woman who claims to be a Russian MLM top-leader.
The letter reads as follows (translated from Russian):
BTW, in the video shared by the sender, there is a different referral link featured. Most likely the sender is close to the project’s administration or is an admin.
A friend on Skype send me a copy/paste message for this opportunity. Thanks to my scam detecting skills, “this is too good to be true” was in my mind before I read the second sentence in the message.
I replied to him how this sounded too good to be true and then something along the lines of: if this is legitimate sign me up!
I’m sure he thought it was a legitimate opportunity and shared it with me, this is not hurting my friendship in anyway.
This smells of the classic scam in which either you make pennies as many have said because of the “UP TO 25 an hour”…OR…. you have a crazy HI withdrawal minimum that is not attainable and will increase so people “think:” they are making money but not really…..
In a way it is like Empowr where you see this crazy hi balance but in reality it is nothing once you even think of withdrawing.
Red Flag! UP TO? Up To What? No Good!
Red Flag! Content does not pay! Where’s the money come from?
ADS! Who wants to watch ads? Not me.
How are they going to pay out? Two more red flags I see are that there are no payment processors listed or a terms & conditions on the bottom of front page.
There’s a million dollars on offer to anyone who can prove its NOT A SCAM.
Another Zeekrewards?
Totally different business model so no.
About the email List, this would be why you should get a new email address before joijing this type of business, have it forward all messges to your regular email and if you end up getting spammed and the business does not work out, just delete the email account or ignore it. simple.
The emails that are sent the first 40,000 people in the US are showing coming from GERMANY.
THW Communications, 21 Kufuerstendamm, Berlin, Berlin 10719
Many comments here are negative and pessimistic, without actual proof just common sense!!?
Of course I joined and hope for the best. Yes they say UP TO, but also say they are aiming at paying twice or more the minimum salary in each country to a maximum of $25 per hour.
In the Philippines (3rd most popular country in this program with over 60,000 subscribers) the payout will be of about $10 per equaling about 4 times the minimum salary.
Now as far as working for your money… any of you have ever created a downline in an MLM worth talking about should know that is work, and maintaining it even more work.
If you have not then why should anyone pay attention to you?
People will have to do the work to get paid. The Videos will surely not be of an hour… they will probably be of 1 minute and they will all be ads, some are pilots, movie previews, things that companies DO PAY for before investing in the final project. Something like Market studies.
When gallop poles are done do you think they do not pay the interviewers???
Viewers will need to make comments or rate products for each advertisement, that is proof you watched it. (That is work) You get to select the type of content you want to see.
If you are not interested in something like Quilting … well they will not send them to you, they will send you subjects of interest.
I could show you the list to choose from but it is very long, and this comment too…. Follow the skeptics and get nothing, take risk and have an opportunity to succeed!
PS the domain is registered by wildwestdomains.com in Scottsdale Arizona USA, not Russia. Also a Miami Address related. Registration paid for 10 years.
Also registered under various variations of the name extension as .biz .org. .info to protect from mirror site phishing and copy cats. Does not look so fishy to me if they pay to have it for 10 years ahead. Where do you all look up information?
The address supplied in the emails shows a multi story commercial building with a Federal office in Berlin Germany.
Want to look up facts, there is some info.
Nobody said the THW Global domain is registered in Russia.
I understand no one said that it was registered in Russia, just pointing out it is registered in The USA I believe it is safer that way for us.
USA has the TOP recruits with
United States…=…77322 3.2% of traffic
Russia…=…70389 40.6% of traffic
Philippines…=…63107
India…=…39897 4.4% of traffic
Ukraine…=…38453 8.5% of traffic
Indonesia…=…24227
Brazil…=…20220
Vietnam…=…16644
Colombia…=…13673
Tunisia…=…13284 and so on…
One of the first people to join did a REAL good job advertising in Russia and in Russian apparently, so they got the recruits and the traffic. How many MLMs advertise in Russian?
the site can be translated in 100 languages (smart for them to mention). I have recruits going to recruit, in Denmark, Germany, Holland, France next week while on a cruise, Making flyers in Dutch, German, and French. IT is really Global. Please do not think I am European. I am in the USA.
27 days ago it all started with just 5 people in The United States, that is were the promotion started. Now it is at 628 thousands sign ups, Only 200 thousands active or responsive.
Yep you and over 600,000 got the same memo to hope for the best!
People like you probably think the Easter Bunny is real too!!
There is no such thing as free money.
Hope you don’t quit your day job!
That is not free money, wish you would read before saying that.
If you think 600,000+ signed up to work – you probably still still didn’t think too deep before you joined either.
You hope for the free money too remember?
Typically the usual suspects populating the MLM underbelly at any given time.
I’ve yet to see a legitimate MLM with the largest user-base in Russia.
Largest User-base is in THE great USA, NOT Russia, why can’t you read before you post? Gave you the numbers, You Know about numbers? 2 is bigger than one, 3 is bigger than 2..
(Ozedit: Offtopic derail attempts removed)
OK play with this one, see how you spin it. WEEEEEEEEe
Have fun. They are referring to you.
USA: 77k users, 3.2% web traffic.
Russia: 70k users, 40% web traffic.
Yeah no, I’m sure that’s totally legit.
Every year or so new dumbasses fall for this model. Get ready for another Wazzub.
I just gathered the info on membership UP TO DATE from THW Global and the traffic from Alexa.com UP TO DATE as quoted from the original posting.
These are facts, not assumptions, not gossip. (Ozedit: Offtopic derail attempts removed)
If you think those membership statistics from THW Global are legitimate, more power to you.
Getting you to swallow members stats is easy after they’ve convinced you you’ll earn $25 an hour watching videos.
I’ll stick to third-party Alexa stats, which provide a very different picture.
Which only proves their website have visitors, not that they are paying anybody in the amount promised. The two stats are UNrelated.
i just wondering ….. it say watching videos BUT WHERE are those VIDEOS on the site cause i can”t find it anywhere
Don’t think they’ve launched the “watching videos” part of the opportunity yet. It’s just promises for now.
Now actually there is a part on their site, where you can find “videos”, but none of them are loading (what a surprise) and they have stolen the description, likes + dislikes and video images from YouTube…
What a professional website they have! They don’t even bothered to buy HTTPS or any security measurement…
“Videos” – thwglobal.com/videocenter/Index?showCategories=y
Article updated with news of compensation plan bait & switch.
If you want to earn more than a few cents in THW Global, you now have to cough up $995 and then $34.95 a month.
At this stage, it looks like the company owners are the only people who are going to earn money from the Google Ads displayed on website and videos.
They will probably keep delaying the launch as much as they can and then close everything and make a nice profit.
Guys.. THW is real. I meet with the Leadership regulary.. yes they might be going into the coffee business but this is purely optional. Hang in there and learn.
THW is real. Real bad. Members lost money in the coffee business and all the other options they brought out. They have not paid anything for watching videos.
What other options did they come up with?
Matrix schemes with no connection to the video watching. An upgrade to be a certified partner at a cost of $500. They are about to introduce a travel discount company.