Ruseful

I am partnered with all of the major tubes, with all of my sites. When we find a full scene of ours on them, we DMCA them and the videos are removed. No different from any other site or host that has our content.

However, specifically with the tubes, when we find one of our full length videos that we have not uploaded ourselves, as long as the video is "intact", with watermarks and pre/post roll, I do not lose any sleep. I actually look at this as "bonus" exposure for those that viewed the full scene while it was available on the tube/s. They would know the quality of our full scenes after seeing one of the near 2,000 tube edited 10-16min videos we have on the tubes right now, so for me, its very positive. The traffic I get from that video will most likely be direct type in, so no affiliate code. And believe me, the direct traffic from exposure on tubes is huge. Thats not saying that we dont have the full length videos removed when my DMCA guys find them, because we would end up with our whole library on the tubes im sure.

The videos I do not like are the videos where the watermarks have been removed and the pre/post roll are removed. I get very little advantage from this apart from potential brand recognition when the viewer recognises my content that has my promo intact.

You see, and as I have said many times before on GFY, the reason for starting a production company after YouPorn was sold was because I understood how read the tube user, what content they were looking to view, and how to monetize the tube sites. 90% of my revenue is directly attributed to the tubes. All of this traffic/revenue comes at no cost. The tubes dont charge me for allowing me to promote my videos to their users, and in return, my content is exposed to high tens/low hundreds of millions of eyeballs per day. We estimate that our videos are viewed more than 8 million times a day on the tubes that we upload to. We never spent a dime on advertising or buying traffic at YouPorn, and im not about to start buying advertising/traffic for my sites. I'm quite happy doing what I do.