I had a quick look at youporn.com and a
25 min. clip here. They advertise their cams on top of the left, close to an aff advertisement. They offer a premium membership for DVDīs at $ 9.95 per month as well.
Their index site is built similar. AFF, cams and the premium membership as well as web.tv and other offers on top of that site as a navigation bar.
I couldnīt find other advertisements than porn or porn related like dating and cams. So nothing is for free, even youporn isnīt really. They seem to make money by advertising those offers listed above. So far, so good.
Obviously they attract users by offering free porn. So the question is, do they legally provide the free content to their users. If not, itīs a problem for those competitors who are working legally and there should be a way to stop them tube sites using stolen content.
If the content is used legally, the question is do porn upsells work on a site which offers complete scenes from paysites for free (I found full publicinvasion scenes for example searching for "public" on youporn). My answer so far is I canīt believe it, but cams and dating sites should work. AFF advertisements for example use the following text:"Still watching porn? Fuck real girls near...!" So I think thatīs the way it maybe works, but of course itīs just one possible way.
So in my opinion illegal working tube sites should be fought, but you canīt blame legal ones for their business model. If some tubes are better than many paysites, the paysites should be thinking of a change. At the end of the day itīs a question of competition. But of course the huge bargain of porn movies on tubes affects the paysites, especially niche sites if their content is used without permission.
Maybe paysites can turn the tables and give away dating and cams to sell porn.