Originally Posted by Adult Lounge - Brad

I see what you are saying, but I disagree for one very big and important reason:

Tube sites as we see them now rely not on content provided by affiliate programs but rather "user" submitted content that for the most part is either "amateur" home movie style porn, or more often than not full movies ripped directly from programs. Because of the fact that there is so much content and the fact that this content is not edited nor displayed in a manner that at least attempts to convince a surfer to signup for a site. Therefore in my mind these tube style sites sere little purpose to our industry.
From an advertising perspective, tube sites are for the most part a waste of money. What is my incentive as a sponsor, to pay money to have a banner or whatever up on a site that's sole purpose is to allow "users" to share their stolen content with other users? Not to mention that these sites are from what I have seen seem to thing that their advertising space is very very valuable which is simply not the case in my opinion.
I think you are on the right track in thinking that tube sites will soon be the next tgp. However, for that to happen, the owners of these sites are going to have to start working in cooperation with the sponsors in figuring out how best to monetize their traffic. I would imagine the start of that would be to go with shorter clips and perhaps pops to tour pages at the end of clips or something along those lines. Until the tube site owners start to design their pages with the intent of selling memberships (like a FGH does), tube sites are a completely different entity which is doing more to hurt the industry than help it. If you were really to think about it for more than lets say a nanosecond, you would realize that under the current model, tube style sites are basically the kissing cousin of torrent sites.