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Originally Posted by Dirty Dane
There are 2 x 2 different perspectives: Quality versus quantity. Traffic and content.
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Again, you are talking from an affiliate perspective. So you must be mainly an affiliate.
I had a free tube in 2008 and ran it to demo some things, and track some stuff. Tweaking different things, and getting feedback from the members. I learned a lot from it, and the members, and sold it off earlier this year.
No clip was more than 45 seconds, and most were 30 seconds.
I now have a membership site that is running on a tube platform. That site is doing really well, and a lot of members from the traditional pay sites have rolled over to the new one. I have talked to them, and based on their feed back, have switched up some things.
On the pay site tube, I still give a 30 second preview of the content before you have to fuck the hell off, or join. So this is hardly giving away anything free, and is on par with the MPG's or TGP's offering clips of the past business models.
However, the FLV allows people to not have to deal with downloads, or codec issues of the past. Nor the waiting for a download.
Tubes can be used as an upsell, and good marketing tool.
As I said before. Not all tubes are the same, evil, giving away the farm, only for traffic, only for freeloaders, and so forth. Broad stroking this issue is exactly why there is so much crying in the beer on the boards IMO.
