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Originally Posted by Paul Markham
So let's think about it, with some intelligence and informed replies. Rather than the usual trolls coming in with nothing.
How many surfers does it take to get a sale?
How many videos do they watch on average?
What's the cost in hosting, servers, service if needed and BW, of a 5 minute, 10 minute and 20 minute clip?
If Tubes are suffering from the same shrinking market we all are. Then they will reach a point where the conversion on actual freeloaders to ad sales or buyers. Sends them under.
Will sponsors keep providing hosted videos if a sample clip costs $5 to host, $15 to the Tube site and the return is a sign up for a month. (Figures to illustrate the point.)
If the cost is 10 cents to get a sale, no problem.
We all saw RSS feeds for blogs go out of most sponsors window. ROI wasn't worth it.
Give us real figures, not smart ass replies.
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Your questions assume the industry will drop to no sales, which it will never do. And your math is silly, a clip's cost is pennies. A program doing a 100 sales a day uses piss for bw, a few grand a month for 300k a month in income. BW costs are a joke.
Your questions are pointless because the fact is 3-5% of the tubes traffic, from a single source, will run you $30-50k a month (and upwards of $200k+) and when you have people now renewing for 6-7 figure contracts at a time, clearly people are making an extreme amount of money.
Very few sponsors ever produced a good feed and the ones that did, greatly benefited from it and still do today, $3-$5 extra cost per gallery is what feeds cost us, which was nothing over what was made from them even for us. API's are the next phase of feeds, which are working like a champ.
This isn't a knock... you know nothing about this because you've never done it, don't do it today, and never will. It's not possible for you to see it, when you're not actually in it. Again not a knock, just the way it is.