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kane · 10-19-2007, 01:48 PM

I've long thought that sites like YouPorn and other "tube" style sites may ultimately have problems surviving over the long haul. If they are just giving stuff away and chewing up bandwidth they have to have some kind of way to make money. the advertising options for a porn site are far less than on a mainstream site like YouTube so there is less chance to make money and with more and more program owners and industry people adopting hostile attitudes towards tube sites even the types of advertising within the industry available to them are shrinking.

Here is a great article about YouPorn and the porn industry as well.

http://www.portfolio.com/culture-lif...inment-Profile

Much of it is about how DVD sales a in a free fall, but then it turns into an examination of YouPorn. It looks like the owners of YouPorn want to sell the site but are having trouble finding a buyer because even industry leaders like Vivid have a hard time seeing how they can turn it into a money maker.

So it makes me wonder: Will the Tube style sites eventually be their own downfall? I know many people said the same about TGPs, but a TGP gives away very little as compared to some of these tube sites and uses a whole lot less bandwidth.

My thought is that in a few years there still might be a few of these tube sites, but many of them will have faded away as a fad because the owners can bare the cost of running them and can't find enough income from them to keep them alive. Not to mention to possible 2257 problems these sites may eventually face.

10-19-2007, 01:48 PM
kane Too lazy to set a custom title Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: portland, OR Posts: 20,684	YouPorn and sites like it might just implode on themselves. I've long thought that sites like YouPorn and other "tube" style sites may ultimately have problems surviving over the long haul. If they are just giving stuff away and chewing up bandwidth they have to have some kind of way to make money. the advertising options for a porn site are far less than on a mainstream site like YouTube so there is less chance to make money and with more and more program owners and industry people adopting hostile attitudes towards tube sites even the types of advertising within the industry available to them are shrinking. Here is a great article about YouPorn and the porn industry as well. http://www.portfolio.com/culture-lif...inment-Profile Much of it is about how DVD sales a in a free fall, but then it turns into an examination of YouPorn. It looks like the owners of YouPorn want to sell the site but are having trouble finding a buyer because even industry leaders like Vivid have a hard time seeing how they can turn it into a money maker. So it makes me wonder: Will the Tube style sites eventually be their own downfall? I know many people said the same about TGPs, but a TGP gives away very little as compared to some of these tube sites and uses a whole lot less bandwidth. My thought is that in a few years there still might be a few of these tube sites, but many of them will have faded away as a fad because the owners can bare the cost of running them and can't find enough income from them to keep them alive. Not to mention to possible 2257 problems these sites may eventually face. Last edited by kane; 10-19-2007 at 01:50 PM..