Originally Posted by RevTKS69

If google can't monetize a tube site, with their almost infinite resources, who can? Tubes are nothing but fool's gold. Here is a quote from this article http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/htm...ubeloss04.html

"For a site that generates as much online traffic as YouTube, it would seem a no-brainer that profit is streaming in.

But according to a Credit Suisse analyst, the most popular video Web site ? owned by the richest Web site Google ? will lose $470 million this year because it sells advertising only on a fraction of its pages.

YouTube sells ads on less than 3 percent of the Web pages that could carry commercial messages, analyst Spencer Wang wrote Friday in a note to clients. To boost that percentage, Google needs to standardize ad formats and better demonstrate that ads on YouTube help sell products, he wrote."

Originally Posted by RevTKS69

"YouTube.com is not porn."

Heh...true enough but the economics are the same. Bandwidth is most of the cost, and ad revenues aren't paying the bills for tube sites. (People looking for free stuff don't buy much and so those ads don't convert).

The bottom line is that these tube site owners are digging their own graves. Throwing money at an intractable problem.

Originally Posted by RevTKS69

Excellent point. Google has the advantage of economy of scale, so costs for others are going to be much higher.

Originally Posted by hjnet

[sarcasm]Yeah, and we all know that Adult Traffic is much more valuable than mainstream traffic[/sarcasm]