Originally Posted by RawAlex

Jace, there is no way that anyone can sanely support 3 minutes plus "clips" as promotional material. The fucking punters get off in that amount of time. Most of them don't need to pull out a CC because they blew thier load on the "sample" content and left the building.

Most of the tube style sites are HIGHLY dependant on non-related sponsorships / ad spaces to pay for their bandwidth bills. Pornotube appeared to be running Etology ads on their sites to pay the bills. As an affiliate, I cannot run that type of site with that type of design because it is AGAINST THE AFFILIATE AGREEMENTS OF ALMOST EVERY PROGRAM.

What I see are many program owners getting onto the "tube bandwagon" and undercutting their own affiliates, granting to a few sites rights that other affiliates don't get. Looking at the 3 mintues or 5 minute clip from a site means that it is that much harder for me to sell with a 16 picture gallery or even a 6 20 second clip gallery. Converting buyers into guys with limp dicks off playing poker (one of the sponsors on pornotube) isn't exactly a way for the porn business to make money.

Too many short sighted people trading future dollars for today's dimes, and the people making the real money are the dating and other "not porn" sites that take the ad spaces.

If TGPs were the escalator to hell for porn, tube sites are the express elevators.