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cordoba · 11-06-2020, 01:16 PM

Can anyone explain to me the economics of a dominant tube site being able to offer full videos of various other studios - that have their own pay sites - to members?

Pornhub I know owns a lot of the studios and porn sites that it offers, but lets take the example of a top VR porn tube like VRPorn.com. It apparently offers all the videos of just about every top virtual reality pay site (and I know that it obviously doesn't own those other sites), for a price the same or not much higher than those pay site's own membership rates. It has a 'fair use policy', but members can still download 30+ videos a day, which seems would be enough for most.

So firstly, why would any VR porn fan join up for an individual pay site rather than VRPorn.com? I assume because they don't know that they could get the same videos plus thousands more at VRPorn.com, but then it's amazing the pay sites get as many sales as they do, because VRPorn is at the top of Google for nearly every VR porn keyword going (and similar sites are at 2 and 3).

But even more difficult for me to understand, is what the deal is with VRPorn.com and those other sites? How can it be profitable for both parties? My first guess was that if a visitor signs up to VRPorn.com after watching a Site X trailer, then VRPorn gives 50% or whatever of the revenue to Site X. But what if the viewer watched a trailer from Site Y before that? Does Site Y get credited? And even if either of those methods is how it operates, all the other dozens of sites are surely losing out because they wont get future joins from members of VRPorn who can watch all their videos already. So I presume that VRPorn must be paying a hefty sum to all the studios to feature their videos, but as VRporn's subscription rates are only a little higher than the standard price (if at all) then how can they make a profit along with the other sites?

It's not as if many visitors are going to watch a trailer of site X on VRPorn, and then go off to site X and join there, when they can join VRPorn for much the same price and watch full videos from dozens of other sites too.

Obviously I'm missing something, because all parties clearly profit from it, just scratching my head as to what it is. And again, I'm just using VRPorn.com as an example (great site!).

11-06-2020, 01:16 PM
cordoba Confirmed User Join Date: Feb 2010 Posts: 1,186	Economics of dominant tube sites Can anyone explain to me the economics of a dominant tube site being able to offer full videos of various other studios - that have their own pay sites - to members? Pornhub I know owns a lot of the studios and porn sites that it offers, but lets take the example of a top VR porn tube like VRPorn.com. It apparently offers all the videos of just about every top virtual reality pay site (and I know that it obviously doesn't own those other sites), for a price the same or not much higher than those pay site's own membership rates. It has a 'fair use policy', but members can still download 30+ videos a day, which seems would be enough for most. So firstly, why would any VR porn fan join up for an individual pay site rather than VRPorn.com? I assume because they don't know that they could get the same videos plus thousands more at VRPorn.com, but then it's amazing the pay sites get as many sales as they do, because VRPorn is at the top of Google for nearly every VR porn keyword going (and similar sites are at 2 and 3). But even more difficult for me to understand, is what the deal is with VRPorn.com and those other sites? How can it be profitable for both parties? My first guess was that if a visitor signs up to VRPorn.com after watching a Site X trailer, then VRPorn gives 50% or whatever of the revenue to Site X. But what if the viewer watched a trailer from Site Y before that? Does Site Y get credited? And even if either of those methods is how it operates, all the other dozens of sites are surely losing out because they wont get future joins from members of VRPorn who can watch all their videos already. So I presume that VRPorn must be paying a hefty sum to all the studios to feature their videos, but as VRporn's subscription rates are only a little higher than the standard price (if at all) then how can they make a profit along with the other sites? It's not as if many visitors are going to watch a trailer of site X on VRPorn, and then go off to site X and join there, when they can join VRPorn for much the same price and watch full videos from dozens of other sites too. Obviously I'm missing something, because all parties clearly profit from it, just scratching my head as to what it is. And again, I'm just using VRPorn.com as an example (great site!).