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Originally Posted by MisterPeabody
(And if you're getting 5 mil views on ANY video then you should be monetizing those views the way the tubes do, thru dating, ads and cams. Some content will never generate big paysite sales via the tubes while others, like mine, do make sales.)
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With a legal tube (ran by old school affiliates and not crooks) we put up your videos (usually under two minutes) for the sake of actually making sales with your program. We would in some cases have two clickable banners for your site next to the video with a total of four links going through the affiliate code to your site. We did everything in our power to make sales with you. The goal wasn't to sell traffic, sell cams, sell dating. It was to partner with you and make sales. We pushed you as hard as we possibly could. We would sometimes get great positions at the top of Google for great terms and we would send as much of this traffic as possible to you (again not you, but sponsors in general). It was a partnership and we both benefited.
Enter the pirate tubes. Enter the rise of the content partner programs and 7 to 15 minute clips. Now Google gives our old ranks to these pirates and the people you supply with 12 minute videos because google likes their time on site more due to the long videos. Now we get 1/10th the traffic and the traffic goes to these sites. They make sales at 5-10 times worse ctr+ratio metrics than we did. Now the surfer sees so much content on page one from pirates and the CPPs that they don't buy paysite memberships. So now the traffic we still do get doesn't make sales anymore and it's "Adapt or die" and we have to consider things as we go check out the affiliate section of the sponsor which mentions "epassporte" and has only seven year old 30 second clips for us to promote as we see 20 minute videos from the same sponsor on Pornhub. Now we get to see sponsors kiss the ass of these tubes while saying "adapt or die" to us on the forums. And now you're (not you but the average paysite owner) sitting here wondering where all your revenue went over the years and why you are broke because "only idiots pay for porn" while frantically uploading 15 minute clips to some scumbag's tube site so you can make one sale for every million views.
The above is pretty much the experience for affiliates who run the traditional non user uploaded tubes. Good on you if you really make the same content available to your old partners as you do with the CPPs but that isn't what is happening with most of the industry so many of us have "adapted before we died". We monetize in other ways now as opposed to pushing your affiliate links. Or we've moved on from adult.