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Originally Posted by Profits of Doom
AFF is far from the only sponsor that allows tubes to monetize themselves. Fling and Horny Matches are two other big dating sponsors that I know for a fact are paying for advertising space. Then you look at programs like More Niche and other penis enlargement programs, escort sites, online adult stores, VOD, Virtual Girl HD, and several other programs that accept tube traffic. They may not prepay, but don't think for a minute the tubes can't make sales from them.
Then you have the forums like pornbb and some of the bigger blogs like allkindsofxxx.com (that fucker even puts his site's watermarks on the videos), and they don't take up near the bandwidth that a tube site does. Just take a look at those sites and you can see the ways they are monetizing them...
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You have a good point, others will pick up the spots AFF vacate, assuming they do vacate them, the problem is the price they pay. Adverts and traffic don't mean diddly squat if they don't bring in more than they cost. And there is your key. I have heard so many idiots over the years tell me that traffic = money. Well it does not it equals a loss until it buys more than it costs.
Clearly the ads AFF put out did not make them a fortune.
Do these ads really do as well as we think? A lot of advertising in the past was to prove you can afford to advertise, the biggest promos were just to show how big you were. The future is not going to that kind to us. I know of one very big company that is slashing it's content budgets because of the economy. Next will be adverts that cost more than they return.