This is my problem, not with Tubes, they're just the next step in the inevitable decline of this industry. For most the decline will put them out in the cold. For a few it will leave them sitting at the top of a declining pile of money.
Any industry that starts out by giving it away for free to 100 in the pursuit of selling to 1. Is going down the wrong road. When it needs to be given free to 200 to sell to 1, the signs are as clear as daylight.
You're satisfying the need of 199 to sell to 1.
You Tube owners should look at how many uniques hit your Tube every day and relate that to sales. Not the numbers who click on a banner.
If it's, for instance, 1,000 to sell to 1. You're satisfying the need of 999 potential customers. Let's assume 90% can't buy. That's 99 sales your kicking out to get 1.
While we go down the same road. It will become 2,000 to sell to 1. Then 3,000 and the slide goes down, never up.
Legal or illegal isn't the issue. The issue is the lost sales.
No business gives away as much free product as the consumer ask for, in the hope of selling a month or 2 months supply of the product. Why buy a crate of beer, when bottles of beer are free?
Some here call it marketing, some even have the cheek to call it selling. And the really funny ones tell you BW is so cheap it doesn't matter.
It's never been so cheap to destroy your own job.
The saddest part of this industry is the lack of innovation, adaptation and realising a flawed business model doesn't work better the more you do it.