Originally Posted by Snake Doctor

But you did say people should go out and do these things.

Also, you can't prove that tube sites are costing you sales. For all you know, you could get more type-in signups from having the url of your site on the videos than you lose from people who get the full vids for free who don't sign up.
There is no definitive way to measure these things.

It's more likely the economy, and overall fear the consumer has of losing his job in the near future...coupled with credit card companies cancelling accounts and lowering credit limits on people.

Before people were blaming tubes and torrents, they were blaming Zango and other forms of spyware for "stealing" sales from the join pages.
Before that it was TGP's giving too much away.
Before that it was something else.

Right now, someone is having their best month ever, and someone else is having their worst month ever, and it's been like that every month since I started back in late 2000, and the people having the worst month always had someone to blame, it was never their fault.