Originally Posted by Thurbs

let's say for the sake of argument that this site is doing 5 joins a day ( adult / dating / cams ) all of which are paying avg 35 pps.

his tube site might operate on 40% - 50% profit margin depending on the level of traffic that is being purchased vs what is organic / se.

he has said that he has ads pre-sold ( bravo, that means he's on track ) and his ads are displayed on sites that embed and he is still serving ads ( bravo again ).

these are just assumptions and i'd not pretend to know his entire biz, just basing it off comparable knowledge that I can amass as someone that sees big joins and the sites that send it.

5 * 35 * 30 days * 50% margin = $2600 usd a month. in this climate, wtih all the sites competing for the same space, I'd say this is very impressive, assuming I'm close to what the real deal is.

anything better profit margin wise, would simply mean that the more he grows, the more he will earn.

people often forget that aside from Redtube ( which had the jump on the full movie trend, lots of forum posts, surfer trolling and more ),the other big sites are owned by big traffic people in the MGP / TGP game. they undoubtedly had more means available to them to grow as fast as they did. They had their own prebuilt traffic sources to feed them, and deep pockets to buy traffic, hard links and more.

I commend anyone taking the time to put in the work and build something today, especially when half the industry tells you that its time to pack it up and go home.