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kane · 02-05-2008, 03:39 AM

I have always said tube sites are a business model that is born to fail. It has got to be very hard to sell memberships to surfers when they can get hours of free porn updated daily right on your site. This limits the advertising and revenue options the sites have and I feel they will eventually stagnate. You can only sell dating sites to so many people. All the return visitors will ignore them and there with limited advertising opportunities it will kill you in the long run. If your surfers stop clicking ads for dating, cams and toys, then what?

It's no surprise that many of the big tube sites are for sale. They want to try to cash in while they can and not have to worry about making money or dealing with lawsuits or whatever 1,2 ,3 years or more down the line.

To me this is the biggest factor in why they will eventually fail. Over the weekend I was at a big annual superbowl party I go to. A friend of mine and I are talking and he was saying how he and the guys at his work will sit around at lunch and surf redtube almost every day. They look for crazy scenes and have a good laugh. he then says, " How are sites like that effecting your business?" I tell him I haven't personally seen any problems, but I can see trouble on the horizon. He then says, "me and four of the guys I work with all used to have memberships to different sites. We have all canceled and probably would never join again." That says it all. Every day people find those sites and cancel memberships. If they are canceling because they found your site for free, why would they then join another site that is advertising on your tube site? Eventually you run out of paying customers and advertising options and all you are left with is a nice big bandwidth bill and tons of freeloaders on your site.

Just my 2cents.

02-05-2008, 03:39 AM
kane Too lazy to set a custom title Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: portland, OR Posts: 20,684	I have always said tube sites are a business model that is born to fail. It has got to be very hard to sell memberships to surfers when they can get hours of free porn updated daily right on your site. This limits the advertising and revenue options the sites have and I feel they will eventually stagnate. You can only sell dating sites to so many people. All the return visitors will ignore them and there with limited advertising opportunities it will kill you in the long run. If your surfers stop clicking ads for dating, cams and toys, then what? It's no surprise that many of the big tube sites are for sale. They want to try to cash in while they can and not have to worry about making money or dealing with lawsuits or whatever 1,2 ,3 years or more down the line. To me this is the biggest factor in why they will eventually fail. Over the weekend I was at a big annual superbowl party I go to. A friend of mine and I are talking and he was saying how he and the guys at his work will sit around at lunch and surf redtube almost every day. They look for crazy scenes and have a good laugh. he then says, " How are sites like that effecting your business?" I tell him I haven't personally seen any problems, but I can see trouble on the horizon. He then says, "me and four of the guys I work with all used to have memberships to different sites. We have all canceled and probably would never join again." That says it all. Every day people find those sites and cancel memberships. If they are canceling because they found your site for free, why would they then join another site that is advertising on your tube site? Eventually you run out of paying customers and advertising options and all you are left with is a nice big bandwidth bill and tons of freeloaders on your site. Just my 2cents.