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Originally Posted by Snake Doctor
We should also realize that the people who are having their content stolen are not going to keep producing it indefinitely only to have it stolen.
It will eventually be locked down or the content producers will go out of business...and in that case the tube site guys will have nothing to give away to bring in the traffic.
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A few content producers going out of business wouldn't make much of a dent. Meanwhile, the ones that stay on business can sell to paysite programs (which won't disappear entirely) and the (legal) tubes themselves.
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Originally Posted by Snake Doctor
This whole business model depends on being able to give away free content, what are they doing to do when the content is no longer there?
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Like I said, content production won't just come to a full stop.
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Originally Posted by Snake Doctor
Everyone seems to think that the way things are going now is the way they're always going to go....it's what got all the sheep into the stock market in the 90's, it got all the sheep into real estate in this decade, and it's got all the sheep starting tube sites today.
It's an unsustainable business model, those of us being hurt by it now are just going to have to ride it out.
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What's unsustainable about it? Let's take a legal tube site giving away content for free.
$5,50 a video, licensed for tube sites. A thousand 20-minute videos would make a decent inventory for a tube site, especially if you mix in a few thousand 2-5 minute sponsor vids.
Spend $20k on traffic from sites like
Traffic Adept and
Choker, and let word of mouth do the rest.
You
will be in the top 500 sites in the world within a year, and it'll probably take that first year to recoup your initial investment. Conversion rates will be lower than on another type of free site, true, but sheer volume will more than make up for that.
Moreover, add premium accounts to the tube site, which cost $10 a month and allow users to download the original file, and you will most likely have most of the bandwidth costs paid for just with that. Advertising is just gravy
