For tube you need to know Linux, hosting, and server administration, so you can get good plan with unlimited bandwidth, and cheap. Then you need to have a program, and Mech Bunny is good, as far as people are saying, I dont have it personally yet. Then you need to have clips, if you want to host them yourself, I think this is better, but people make embed sites too. You can either get them for free, which probably takes a lot of time, or buy them, which costs money, so this is not very good. After that you can look at something like SimilarWeb.com, to see where people get traffic, and how things work (like traffic from NudeVista.com, or OvGuide.com, lets say). This is quite expensive, and it may take time to go over it too. Working on seo, could be probably good too, and this costs money, and takes time. Links dont stay up forever too. Then you want to make money from working on this, I am assuming...
I havent worked on this yet, but I think it is very hard, to make money. You need to have a lot of clips, update daily, or maybe rotate videos, I am not sure. Maybe somebody can say more about it. I would not work on a tube...
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sheer.tv - this is a nice tube site, that I remember. I think it is old, at least five or six years old. 6,000 people a day. What kind of money does this make? Bravo Media Group tubes are standing out too, they look like a profitable thing. And then you have all the big ones, obviously.
Anybody making money with tube sites? Translating one site to multiple languages can be a good strategy too.
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a) get cheap server with a lot of storage, and unlimited bandwidth
b) buy 100,000 clips
c) add unique title to each
d) get SimilarWeb.com for one month, and see where people get their traffic from
This could be expanded to unlimited number of tubes, with the same clips and unique titles, with Mech Bunny, one admin - multiple sites module. Any site could be translated to 10 different languages, to get more traffic from search.
Would this make money? And here, just like another topic, money comes from banner ads, popunder, could be some affiliate sales (1 per 100,000 hits, or whatever it could be / is). Does it make sense?
This sounds like a good direction, for tubes, I think.