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Originally Posted by anasporn
OK, honest question here:
_LB_ I do not understand how this advertising model works. If the surfers have 4-10 minute length videos to watch, what incentive do they have to sign up to a paysite? I would think it would take a surfer no more than 45 seconds to determine if a clip is interesting or not, but if there are much longer clips, why would a surfer pay for porn when they can just wait for it to be posted on a tube site?
I can understand it probably draws traffic, but what quality is this traffic? I figure you would have already sold them on any email porn possible, so what is left for them to buy?
I am not trying to be a smartasss here; I just really REALLY don 't understand this tube thing at all.
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Hey as I said to Hammer, yeah would love to see only 30 sec clips, but if you are offering 30 sec clips, and your competitors are offering 10 min clips, guess where the traffic goes.
Thats what killed tgp2 .. its just not sustainable because you constantly bleed traffic. A middle ground has to be gained. Most people are hypocritical when it comes to tubes. How can you push tgp when picposts convert better and give away less for free, and then in the same breath say tubes should give away tiny clips? There was a similar outcry about tgps when they first started to appear on the scene.
Its true that not many tubes make a profit, but the actual business side of running a tube and why I do run one is knowledge that we regard as private and gives us a competitive advantage. Same with how to turn a profit on the traffic ... there is no way in hell I would share that info that took us almost a year of losses to learn.
