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Originally Posted by RawAlex
I went to look today. Off the front page, I found WEG uploaded videos at 2:30 seconds and longer. I found some other videos at over 4 minutes. I can't see that being very good for business.
Trixxxia, I understand that pornotube has agreements with many of these producers. But what those agreements have done is undercut the affiliate model. These agreemnts allow pornotube to work as a super affiliate, running longer clips than I would be allowed to run, and to place advertisements for third parties of the page that I am not allowed to do normally by my agreement.
Newest videos: Twisty's at 2:51, POV BJ's at 1:07, gay solos at 0:58, Fuck Her Right at 2:54, and an amateur blowjob clip at 2 minutes even. There was more than enough long playing content for a guy to get going and likely get off without an issue, plus direct links on most of those pages to another 10 minutes plus free video.
I don't think pornotube is as bad as the obvious illegal file share / user upload sites, but it is still edging the business closer and closer to giving almost all of it away. The costs of marketing go up this way, and the number of potential clients is slowly pulled off, teaching them to look harder for free porn.
At least in the TGP deal, surfers have to click back and click a new clip every 20 secords or so, with the idea being that taking out the CC is less punishment than what they have to do to get off that way.
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Though this is just another step in the evolution of both the web and this business.
When there was nothing for free you got picposts, then along came these tgps which offered 12+pics, then a couple of years back they demanded more pics and more videos of higher quality. This is just another step in a direction we have been heading for probably 12 years now.
Nobody regardless of how much power or influence they command in this industry can stop this or force a change of direction. It goes right back to when movements were afoot to try and limit tgps, and surprise they were ineffective because for every tgp that limited its free content there were 3 willing to step up and take their traffic.
At least the responsible tube sites are largely trying to engage and work with the adult webmaster community, which is more than can be said for most of these social networking sites.
I would love to go back to the days where a picpost submit would generate me 2-3 sales, and getting a site on persiankitty's link list was enough to quit your day job, but those days are gone. Tube sites and media on demand sites with 1+ min clips (hell many have 20+ min clips) are the future, simply because thats where the traffic is heading. You can't fight the fact that web2 style sites are the new craze.