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Originally Posted by Sausage
Look there are so many different ways of doing tubes. "Tube" is just a name for the content delivery and surfing method for those kinds of sites, though the scope and different ways of working within that model are huge.
Yes I do make reasonable money from my fairly large tube site. I take submits and only list around 20 a day from the 100+ submits I get, and don't approve anything that is too long (usually 5mins is max). From my own videos on my tube I convert an average of 1:200 just from clicks on the clickable field I allow submitters.
Its not guys like me who are hurting the industry, its the selfish pricks and idiots uploading 20 min clips, or the assholes with stolen content. Anyone with half a brain knows thats not a winning business model. You give them a few mins of reduced quality video and leave them wanting more ... they get the sample and if they like what they see they will signup! Its a great model if done correctly.
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Saying you convert 1:200 is very misleading, because how many page views does it take to actually get a sale on the video page?
The reason you would see a ratio like that is because not many of your surfers are ever going to pay for a membership. Most are free loaders that will never buy. The very few that actually do click through are likely already pre sorted.
It's the same deal with spammers.. They send out millions of e-mails yet they can get ratios that are 1:30. If a surfer is dumb enough to click a e-mail spam link, they are already very likely to buy a membership.
The simple fact is tubes don't push the same kind of click through to tours as say a gallery may. However just because the ratio is lower than a average doesn't mean the bulk of the traffic is better than say gallery traffic. Because it takes many more page views to get those limited few click thoughs.