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Old 08-26-2015, 01:25 AM  
Paul Markham
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Originally Posted by signupdamnit View Post
As I recall it was unique views (not clicks) and that was just an estimate. The point was though that it seems to me that a lot of people in our industry believe these tubes are doing far more money than they probably really are doing. If you plug in some reasonable monetization numbers and figure it up with their actual traffic figures it becomes a bit underwhelming. It's a great profit for one company. Don't get me wrong. But when you consider that we're talking about 50%+ of all porn surfers then the numbers are just peanuts. I think us old timers would expect a lot more money from having so many eyes. But this (with the tubes) is the new reality.
A better estimate would be 1-10 uniques clicking on an advert, even that's a bit high. Tubes are going nowhere though. Their cost of running, has to climb before anything changes.

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Originally Posted by OldJeff View Post
Almost ! They all lost money on the actual sales of the magazines, they made their money from the advertising inside the pages
I'm talking about the revenue in the shop, not the producers.

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Originally Posted by NemesisEnforcer View Post
Good point. I buy DVDs wholesale from $1.00 to $8.00 and sell them for $25 to $30. I see those same videos in the stores for as high as $50.
Everyone online compared their retail sales, with offline wholesale or production sales.
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