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Originally Posted by Pornwolf
The tube sites are just a really really bad idea. Guys saw YouTube and said, "This is the wave of the future!"
Unfortuntaely the idiots didn't take into consideration that YouTube's mainstream biz model doesn't have to be monetized the same way. A video of a cat farting isn't meant to upsell Catfarting.com.
This trend just goes to show how little business sense a lot of guys that are in this business actually have.
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this point is very true. People saw youtube copied it and failed to realize that the only thing you can upsell on a porn site is.... porn. The only possible thing in porn you can upsell on a tube site is cams and dating. So you are very very limited on how you can make money from a porn tube vs a mainstream tube. The whole tube model is setup to make money off of selling ads.
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Originally Posted by Pornwolf
We've seen sky is falling scenarios many times in the history of the biz but I think this is one of those watershed moments for real this time.
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The sky is falling for Traditional picture and video membership sites. Sites that offer no live cam or interaction with it's users. Also TGPs will be done in 1 - 2 years. Less people visit them and even less will be signing up to the galleries listed there. Sure some people are making money with them now, but as time goes on that will be less and less. As the people buying the links on tgps make less money, the cost of those spots will be reduced.
The rest of porn is fine. If you own a cam site or dating, sell sex toys, etc... If you own a site that has interaction with the members. These sites will be fine.
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Originally Posted by crockett
You do realize most of these "tube" sites can't even afford their own bandwidth bills..
Besides that sponsor approved tube sites lack what makes real tube site popular. The surfer can't upload videos.
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A sponsor who only uses their own videos and only shows video clips that are a couple minutes long is basically providing the same things as a mgp. Instead of 4, 30 second clips from the same scene, they let people see the whole 2 minutes in 1 clip. Same thing, they just trying to call it a " tube site".