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Originally Posted by CyberAge-Dave
You don't have to be a Rocket Scientist to know that Tube Sites has in fact hurt the industry. Everyone that knows me asks me how I'm still in Business with all the Free Shit that goes around. I ask people what their favorite Porn sites are and they always give me Free Tube Domains. It's a no brainer. You can get Porn for free and you can find just about anything you want with a little bit of Surfing, and most surfers do just that.
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Kind of a cop-out imho. Had you asked surfers what their favorite site was 5 or more years ago, it probably would have been the hun, al4a, etc. AVS sites, while not entirely free, used Free Sites and such to support them, Free is definitely nothing new, tubes are just the new version, it takes ingenuity to make it all work.
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Now, I'm not saying the business has gone away. I've been in this game since 95' I've seen it all. People still buy porn, Our AVS sites still do some decent numbers, we do credit card processing, I see what people pay for, they are definitely paying!!!
This week we are seeing the highest numbers ever for our new Cams Site that's been up and running for about a year now. That tells me something, people are still willing to whip out their credit cards. BUT!!!. It's nothing like it used to be and if anyone is telling you they are making the same amount they used to or more from back in the day, they are lying.
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I think you are just seeing what increased bandwidth speeds and the need for instant gratification are creating. Why would you go to a porn site and look at thousands of shitty photo sets when you can get real time video chat on a cams site? I don't think tubes are necessarily the cause, but just the simple fact people have more bandwidth, why not watch a movie?
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Keep your overhead low, stay in business and when all the Tube sites fade away, you will be at the right place at the right time.
Content theft is straight out Crime, and these tube sites killed our industry with our own content. It's ridicules.
I'm a big believer on keeping your existing members happy. Always update your content area, give them more then what they expect. Spend the same amount time and money on your existing members as you do finding new members.
Stay positive!
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I don't think TUBE sites will ever go away, not with the popularity of YouTube etc., but you will see them fade away just as you did with AVS's, TGP's etc. The big ones stay, the small ones wither away. I definitely do not condone stealing content, I hate it with a passion, but there is a way to make money with tubes if done properly. Same thing with any other website, people just need to stop thinking like its 1999. This whole business like any other business is cyclical.