Originally Posted by stocktrader23

Affiliates don't want surfers looking up model names, movie names, producer names, etc. That would only lead them away from the affiliate link and towards the main site.

Also, nobody goes to a tube site to watch commercials. Your problem is that you keep comparing tubes to "regular" traffic. You are mad that tubes make money by selling ads or upselling non porn products but what the fuck is wrong with that business model? NBC isn't selling you TV shows and movies, they are using them to show you commercials.

The hilarious part is that you decided to jump into the hate parade only with tubes. Were you doing all of this crying about ratios (that aren't even your ratios) when TGP's were around? I never got into TGPs because the traffic sucked in relation to what I did. I converted 1:4 or 5 and TGP converted 1:100 to 1:1000 or worse. That does not mean it wasn't a viable business model.

Your crusade against tubes is fucking foolish. Some are happy to get 5000 visits per day that convert 1:500 raw to page and the big tubes get millions of hits per day that convert the porn sites featured at say 1:50,000 raw to the page but also sell banners all around each and upsell cams and dating while feeding traffic to other sites in their network AND captivating an audience that will return tomorrow to see more ads and spend more on cams.

The bottom line is money Paul. Why is it so hard for you to comprehend that a company that paid millions for their network, makes millions on said network and tests everything under the sun would know more about their traffic than you? If your silly idea would work better they'd already be doing it, they have more data in one day than you've generated in your entire life.

Again, stop bitching about a business model you don't understand. They want millions of viewers coming back to freeload for the same reason YouTube does. The same reason Google does and the same damn reason Facebook does.

Speaking of Facebook, free social / dating site when companies made millions charging people for the same service. So they gave away all that to free to sell off traffic like idiots is what you would say. They got the audience, they make more money than any of those sites that charged and they are now worth BILLIONS of dollars. The model has been tested and tweaked and turned into a cash fucking machine in mainstream long before the first fucking porn tube popped up. We are talking about old fucking news and you are arguing against a business model that generates more money than you could count to.

How is that for a Paul Wall?