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Originally Posted by will76
I can't speak for Shap, nor do I know for 100% certainty, but I think you totally missing it here. It is Shap's tube site domains that is saving his business. That and partnerships with other tube sites. His content might be great, but it is having his content on his own tube sites and other tube sites with a link to his pay site that is making him his money. If he had no great tube site domains nor made deals with the bigger tube sites he would be in the same boat as you, Steve, and several other medium size companies that made 100% sales off of membership joins.
I give you an A+ for effort though with your cam site and tube site, but you did them both wrong, and you were way late to the game.
Another brutally honest asshole reply ;)
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I have to disagree and I'll be totally 100% brutally honest here. Two things saved our ass.
#1 Having a paysite that focuses on the member. Our members are extremely loyal and that has saved our ass. If Twistys relied on the sales it gets from Tube Sites it would be fucked. We do very well with our core audience and existing traffic sources but tubes is not an area excel at. Our great tube traffic is on GayTube and that can't sell a Twistys membership. The truth is Twistys, like most paysites, is down from it's peak but it has been very stable and still is our top company earner and most profitable site.
#2 I have a few good domains but right now GayTube is the only superstar. There is absolutely no question that without GayTube I'd be a nervous person. Why? Because I don't believe the current paysite business model can be successful long term (5 to 10 years). Having GayTube gives us the best of both worlds. We have a great paysite that has stood the test of time and we have a non stop growing GAY tube site that is in a growing market (tubes) and one that still buys memberships GAY. Currently GayTube doesn't even make a quarter of what Twistys does. But at the rate it keeps growing and the opportunities that have come up because of it I know it is only a matter of time before it's doing what Twistys does now and much more.