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Originally Posted by tony286
.? Manwin, in fact, has studied the question of optimal clip length. ?We tested one minute, three minutes, five minutes,? Antoon says. ?The best converting for the content owner is three minutes. The best for the tube sites?for the surfer to come back and back?is five minutes. So we always ask for three to five. We don?t mind if they send us seven to nine.?
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Thats so Jan 2011.
I remember in 2007 we were getting 30 sec-2 mins clips, we were asking for 4 mins.
2008 we were getting 2-3 min clips, we asked for 4 mins
2009 we were getting 3-4 min clips, we asked for 5 mins
2010 well, you get the idea.
Fast forward to end 2012, and Chris Smith from Manwin released a fantastic How to make money with PornHub guide. He also did workshops in Amsterdam and Prague. I released my Guide in 2012 too, How to Make money with the tubes. You will read in both guides that 10-12 min videos, properly edited for tubes, with beginning middle and proper ending, do significantly better.
There is only so much that I or the tubes can do to help you to make the most of the insane amounts free traffic at your disposal. Tubes work on data, they, like I, will share their knowledge by writing guides, speaking at seminars and occasionally post on GFY (however, I do regret every time I do post on GFY and lay at night thinking "why do I do it to myself")
Bottom line, as a tube you know what your users want, and the longer tube clips as a rule, out performed the shorter clips. Their advice is free, as is the traffic, its the largest aggregation of traffic per day that you are ever likely to see, and you know what, because its for free, along with the advice, it means you can take it or leave it.