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Originally Posted by tony286
It's because they want them to stay on the tube. Why are movie trailers max 2 mins 30 secs (we wont get into a movie cost alot more to make than a porn)because they want to go somewhere else, the movie theater to see the movie. When the old ceo of manwin was interviewed for an article he said they found under 5 mins they went to the producers site over 5 mins they stayed on the tube.
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After some research I believe I located the exact quote for this in case anyone is interested.
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But this is hardly the consensus opinion. Allie Chase, operator of solo-site NaughtyAllie.com, takes issue even with the five-minute trailers that plenty of producers deliberately upload to tube sites in the hope of whetting appetites. ?Do you honestly think that your average guy watching a five-minute porn, or several of them, won?t be able to get off? Of course he will. And once he?s shot his load all over his keyboard after watching my free five-minute video, he certainly isn?t going to be pulling out a credit card to join my site.? Manwin, in fact, has studied the question of optimal clip length. ?We tested one minute, three minutes, five minutes,? Antoon says. ?The best converting for the content owner is three minutes. The best for the tube sites?for the surfer to come back and back?is five minutes. So we always ask for three to five. We don?t mind if they send us seven to nine.?
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http://nymag.com/nymag/features/70985/index5.html
Of course Google helped make it worse. Google favors longer videos so the tubes want longer videos. Google's algorithm actually is somewhat foolish. For example a trick I learned (primarily for mainstream) is to put the content the user really wants to see more towards the end. Google will think the video is better for this reason alone because the time on the page will be greater as the average surfer will stick around. It's silly though because in actuality it isn't any better. We just made the surfer wait to find what they really wanted. We could even be showing ads at first and Google's mindless algorithms would likely see this as "better".