Accepting Friends On Tubes: Good Or Bad For Sales?

[The Porn Nerd]

I've been going around and updating my various profiles on the differant tube sites (Content Partner Programs only) and noticed my channels/profiles get a lot of friend requests. I have been accepting them for years but now I am wondering if this is actually a good thing (for paysite sales) or a terrible thing.

For example, on XHamster I have thousands of friends. Same on a bunch of other tubes. But what's the advantage to accepting all these friendship requests? They get to see the content for free regardless and can certainly search my channels, etc. Now if they could only see my videos by becoming a Friend that would be one thing...

Anyway, just wondering what your thoughts might be. If it's pointless either way (or hurts sales) then why do I spend so much time clicking 'Accept'? LOL

[TheSquealer]

generally, when you are inundated with requests for something, its never to your benefit ;)

[slapass]

Can you contact your friends? Anyway extra ability gained by being a friend? I am really asking if you can spam them somehow.

[candyflip]

You can block videos on XHamster and make then only viewable to friends.

[Struggle4Bucks]

Originally Posted by The Porn Nerd

I've been going around and updating my various profiles on the differant tube sites (Content Partner Programs only) and noticed my channels/profiles get a lot of friend requests. I have been accepting them for years but now I am wondering if this is actually a good thing (for paysite sales) or a terrible thing.

For example, on XHamster I have thousands of friends. Same on a bunch of other tubes. But what's the advantage to accepting all these friendship requests? They get to see the content for free regardless and can certainly search my channels, etc. Now if they could only see my videos by becoming a Friend that would be one thing...

Anyway, just wondering what your thoughts might be. If it's pointless either way (or hurts sales) then why do I spend so much time clicking 'Accept'? LOL

I see more harm in the concept of "channels" then in "friendships". Ideal would be that a "friend" gets noticed about the new video, without having acces to a complete channel where they can find all videos uploaded...

Ideal would be they would have to search for the rest and at best to "favorite" per video in order for them to find it back.

Anyway... since there are channels... "friendship" is A way to keep connected to them in one way or another...

[Horatio Caine]

Tell them to take a look at your amazon wish list first You'd be surprised. I got Dewalt drill and size 13 (mens) MJs. And I was posing as 20 year old college girl who is in to gangbanging

[The Porn Nerd]

Originally Posted by TheSquealer

generally, when you are inundated with requests for something, its never to your benefit ;)

Oddly, this is not true when it comes to mainstream businesses, like a donut shop.

Originally Posted by slapass

Can you contact your friends? Anyway extra ability gained by being a friend? I am really asking if you can spam them somehow.

Maybe. I know you used to be able to contact all your Friends on MySpace. LOL But I would think spamming your online Friends would lead to a lot of EX-Friends.

Originally Posted by candyflip

You can block videos on XHamster and make then only viewable to friends.

Yes I see. But allowing only your Friends to see videos limits the views/traffic you can expect to get from tubes. The real question is does having Friends help at all? I'm thinking reject everybody and make the fuckers join my site to see more....

Originally Posted by Struggle4Bucks

I see more harm in the concept of "channels" then in "friendships". Ideal would be that a "friend" gets noticed about the new video, without having acces to a complete channel where they can find all videos uploaded...

Ideal would be they would have to search for the rest and at best to "favorite" per video in order for them to find it back.

Anyway... since there are channels... "friendship" is A way to keep connected to them in one way or another...

The real benefit to channels is your video gets displayed there faster than on the Homepage. So by the time your video does make it to the Homepage you have a bit of a 'head start' with views and likes, thereby keeping your video on the Homepage longer. That's the Theory anyway. So maybe having a lot of friends (who upvote your videos) DOES help....

Originally Posted by Horatio Caine

Tell them to take a look at your amazon wish list first You'd be surprised. I got Dewalt drill and size 13 (mens) MJs. And I was posing as 20 year old college girl who is in to gangbanging

Now HERE'S a Pro Tip folks!

[L-Pink]

Originally Posted by Horatio Caine

Tell them to take a look at your amazon wish list first You'd be surprised. I got Dewalt drill and size 13 (mens) MJs. And I was posing as 20 year old college girl who is in to gangbanging

[Struggle4Bucks]

Originally Posted by The Porn Nerd

The real benefit to channels is your video gets displayed there faster than on the Homepage

Yes of course because it's YOUR channel so ALL YOUR videos are there...

In my logic the chance of someone going to the sponsor's site declines when the amount of videos from that sponsor increases on that tube....

Originally Posted by The Porn Nerd

So by the time your video does make it to the Homepage you have a bit of a 'head start' with views and likes, thereby keeping your video on the Homepage longer. That's the Theory anyway. So maybe having a lot of friends (who upvote your videos) DOES help....

At Xhamster your video Always starts on the homepage then sliding down to following pages because of new updates.... There are only 6 spots on the homepage which are called
"promoted videos" and those are there, if i'm correct, because of high likes, etc... so... competition is allready high there...

Originally Posted by The Porn Nerd

Yes I see. But allowing only your Friends to see videos limits the views/traffic you can expect to get from tubes. The real question is does having Friends help at all? I'm thinking reject everybody and make the fuckers join my site to see more....

I'm thinking... maybe i'll try to post only the newest video in public.... For the rest they need to request friendship... because that is not instant... maybe they can't wait and check out the paysite...

[The Porn Nerd]

Originally Posted by Struggle4Bucks

I'm thinking... maybe i'll try to post only the newest video in public.... For the rest they need to request friendship... because that is not instant... maybe they can't wait and check out the paysite...

That's an interesting idea!! Let us know how this experiemtn works. Maybe I will do the same as a test....

[Matyko]

Originally Posted by Horatio Caine

Tell them to take a look at your amazon wish list first You'd be surprised. I got Dewalt drill and size 13 (mens) MJs. And I was posing as 20 year old college girl who is in to gangbanging

LOL phucking Genius!!!!!

[lezinterracial]

If dick pics were ever to become popular, You will have plenty of content from your xhamster friends.

[The Porn Nerd]

Originally Posted by lezinterracial

If dick pics were ever to become popular, You will have plenty of content from your xhamster friends.

I wonder if I gathered them all and posted them on a blog if I would get in trouble for 'revenge porn'. LOL

[Mickey_]

Since they are your new friends, it would be rude not to throw a party for them.
Do it and do it fast. ;)

[ownedbox]

party is a good idea! engaging with online friends is somewhat part of social media.

[The Porn Nerd]

Originally Posted by Mickey_

Since they are your new friends, it would be rude not to throw a party for them.
Do it and do it fast. ;)

Yeah but how do you throw an online party for 10k XHamster friends? LOL Kegger at your house?