Tubes, the industry, and my over worked brain.
I been thinking a lot, I always do and as expected tubes came up. Now I understand that I took some vicious verbal beatings when I have shared such thoughts, like when I was trying to warn affiliates several years ago that they were pushing themselves out of the market. That by getting higher and higher payouts and demanding the programs do all the work for them some day very soon some of the sponsors would take note, switch more to in house traffic generation, buy add spots and sites, grab all the traffic they can and squeeze out anyone without pre established significant traffic or the micro niche player. Hell even the use of free content was writing on the wall, just did not expect the stealing of it. I was of course laughed at and scorned. So be it, I just worked on my small niches.
I was not surprised at the rise of the tubes. Honestly I was perhaps a few steps away from launching one of the very first ever. I just picked the wrong cms, a paysite one by chance since I figured people would be used to that format. Then mistake number 2 was that I asked the sponsors if I could use their free content in my site and yes I explained I was going to use ALL OF IT. The idea was simple, tons of free content that pushed the sponsors in a free members site format with no charge. Was not no full length movies, though I did think about adding some I had rights to. To sort of really push each area (niche) of the site.
Truth be told, I got tired of sponsors telling me no. Many did say yes though. Plus I was a bit lazy, had the wrong CMS and the US outsourcing to add the content and matching text with search words was getting very expensive so I let it fade. At first I felt I would either hit it hard or fail very hard, instead I just accepted a few thousand in losses and quit. Not sure if it was a mistake or not, really do not care much. I really did not even have youtube as a fucking model. There are still a few people here who I hired to work on it or I spoke with it about.
Anyways back to the topic at hand and what I have been thinking. There seems to be always one constant fact or equation; whatever you wish to call it in adult that shows up in everything we as an industry do. We fuck it up. Simple as that. It also will eventually be the silver lining to the current tube issue, there will be others though trust me. We are already seeing shit loads of "legal tubes" popping up. Give it a tiny bit more time and there will be sponsor branded free tubes for every one sale a month webmaster to upload and run. It will saturate, it will dilute, and of course like always it will fuck it up.
Yes there will be a handful of very successful ones who make more than their share of the money and will have either moved on to the next way to get the upper stranglehold on the traffic, or the next twist in the market. We all know a nobody site can pop up out of nowhere at in point in history, become the next juggernaut and of course original - before clones come in and fuck it up. Tubes will stay, unless some ruling changes the field. At best the will hold onto traffic like the early TGP of yesteryear while the new traffic magnet grows out of some fold or wrinkle.
Just be assured if - we as an industry will fuck it up.
No and there are no cliff notes, read bitches or just ignore me.
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