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Originally Posted by slapass
Or simpler. They are giving the product away for free. Very tough to make great bank with this business model. Tubes make money but they make way less money with far more traffic then the older style marketing.
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That has been true of every new type of free site in this business.
The driving force has always been the cost and availability of bandwidth.
Link lists gave away alot more content (10 pics per site) than pic posts (1 pic) and made less money on more traffic.
Then the link lists stopped allowing consoles on free sites, then they stopped allowing full page ads between the warning page and menu page, then they stopped allowing pics on html pages with advertising on them, then they required 20 pics per site. Then they limited the number of advertising links you could have on any page in your site in addition to requiring 20-30 pictures.
Then TGP's came along and required 6 pictures per page, but linked directly to the page with the thumbnails instead of forcing the surfer through 2 or 3 pages of advertising first.
Then 10 pics were required, then 15.
Then MGP's started giving away short movie clips. Then the movies were required to have sound. Then they were required to be a certain screen size and file size.
So in the regard of giving away more content and making less money on more traffic, tubes are no different than any of the sites I mentioned above....the reason they exist today is because bandwidth is $5/mbit and in the heyday of link lists it was $200/mbit.
At each stage of the game, a new set of people got rich, and a new set of people went broke. This one is no different.
I just wish I'd had this epiphany a year or 18 months ago instead of last month.