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Originally Posted by Yanks_Todd
This is an very interesting thread and concept.
As of late I have been increasingly contacted by tubes of all sizes to partner, partner, partner. This wasn't always the case, so clearly things are changing in the tube owners world. What things have changed?
I think
Many content producers, (and some of the best ones ironically) were forced out of business because of the dual pressures of content theft (tubes and torrents) and the economic downturn. Less quality content is being produced.
The library of old/ancient content that has been licensed by tube sites from companies that no longer produce new content is drying up quickly and sucks for the most part.
As high speed internet spreads consumption is rising.
Submissions by "real" people are either drying up or staying steady, however I would bet they aren't keeping up with the rising level of consumption.
In the beginning a lot of content was stolen by a lot of tube site owners. I won't say all of them, but many. This still is happening, but now there are ways to fight back.
All these things combined mean that the tube owners need to partner with content providers in a mutually beneficial way.
However what are they willing to do for that partnership?
I was approached by Dr. Tuber last week about submitting videos, I asked how many was optimal, they said as many as possible. I asked what the minimum was, they said 500 with daily updates. HAHAHAHA!
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What many don't realize is that by giving them all this great content of yours you are building up their business and not yours. I own a couple sites (non-porn) which accept user uploads and I do a happy dance when I get a new regular uploader. Especially if they write decent descriptions and put up good content. It means an increase in traffic not only from having more content for Google but also because people will tend to stay more on my site more when there is more quality and quantity. Some contributors will even regularly send people from other places to check out the content they put on my site so it will grow my traffic directly.
So realize that you are building up their business and helping them keep all the traffic. And a question some might want to ask is what happens after they have all the traffic? What will the terms for you be like then? 30 minute videos or higher only? Will you have to pay them to submit like the old partner programs with the TGPs? Then as mentioned if someone is giving these CPPs all this content but not their normal affiliates then they are pushing out their long time affiliates in favor of these guys. Say what you will but pissing off long term partners for shifty newcomers with poor ethics usually isn't a good business move.