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Originally Posted by Matt 26z
Hypothetically speaking, what if you had launched those same paysites 10 years ago? Do you think you would have made more then or more now?
You like to position yourself as a visionary that helps evolve the industry, but the reality is that the industry is making less money under the new model.
You've made it work for you, but the reality is that 98% of your success was launching with the YouPorn.com domain name. It was the funny play on YouTube that went viral. The remaining 2% was having enough balls to harbor unauthorized content and hide behind DMCA (which at that time was something few were willing to do).
Just call a spade a spade and get off the high horse.
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I wish I had launched my sites 10 years ago, but I guarantee they would not have been the exact same sites. And, I would have been one of the first to join the YP content partner program too. The sites I launched post YP was on the back of the data from YP. Knowing what users want to watch, and how to deliver it. And I don't keep that a secret.
I believe you are doing me an injustice re YP. There were many other factors that drove the success of YP. We did not throttle our bandwidth, when our competitors did, that meant videos did not buffer for our end users. We started buying content very early on (within months of launching), this meant we did not have to rely on end user uploads. We invented the Content Partner Program in early 2007, that is widely used in the industry today, and this enabled us not to allow user uploads (which resulted in us receiving less than 10 DMCA's a month). We developed industry first algorithms such as "we recommend" that enabled us to get our average page views per visit to around 50% more than our nearest competitor. This meant we could serve less ads, and charge more for the ad space we kept. We did not allow intrusive video banners nor did we serve pop unders/overs, Im ads etc etc. This actually increased time on site. We actually cared for our users and provided one of the best end user experiences in the tube market.
A visionary? Yes, I would say that, and if I have not already proved it with YP and now my pay site network, then in the coming months, I most certainly will, with Cloud.xxx and Tube.xxx.
Oh, and our balls were much bigger than 2%.