An open Letter to Eric and Ice...

You know, that other board.
http://bit.ly/umdSp

The only thing I posted was the same I have said here. The reason why people were getting banned.

Ah, it sounded like you had commented on the issue of doing business with Tube8 and Pornhub. Did you see LukeIsBack or the ******** article yet on GFY?

Brazzers sends realitycash traffic from the brazzers members area.

stunned at all the fucking idiots acting like tube sites don't make money... especially after so many years. they must be the shittiest business people ever.

or all the people saying "giving it for free doesn't make money" - this whole fucking online industry is built on giving it away for free to make money. has been since day
one.

Just my two cents but I have been in the business for some time now primarily as a traffic buyer. Honestly, I would value tube traffic at less than 1 cent a click on a cpc basis. What you are seeing is the evolution of the Tubes not necessary the entire industry. The Tubes were no longer getting sufficient interest in prepaid ads and the over saturation of dating and cams has dramatically lowered conversions on those to the point where the combination of dating, cams and prepaids no longer cover the costs. That is why they are selling their traffic. Think about it rationally for a moment would you rather deal with 1000s of small fish depositing a few bucks into their account at a time, or would you rather deal with a few prepaid ads from big fish and a couple of dating and cams programs?

I think the answer is obvious. The big fish weren?t seeing a positive ROI on their prepaid ads so they won?t buy anymore. As far as giving it away for free and then making money on the ads that particular business model has failed numerous times on the mainstream side of the internet and led to first dot.com bust. Adult is even more disadvantaged than mainstream when it comes to ad revenue. Anybody with a lick of sense at this point knows full video tubes that have ads to adult pay sites don?t achieve a positive ROI for the person paying for the ad except in the very rare case. So who is in the potential pool of advertisers for adult tube sites? No big mainstream company will place their ad on an adult tube site because they don?t want their product or service associated with porn. In fact that is what is often cited as the reason playboy is having problems. If something as soft as Playboy has trouble getting advertisers how can a tube with hardcore porn get them? So that leaves as your pool of advertisers as various get rich schemes, various supplements that make promises they don?t keep, online gambling and maybe a few more but basically the type of ads that can?t be placed in the traditional mainstream channels.

While perhaps it is possible to for an advertiser of say a get rich scheme to come up with a banner that gets a short term positive ROI once the pool of Tube Surfers has been exposed to that type of ad for so long it effectively kills the category of ad because the surfer has become skeptical of the ads much like adult dating a conversions have gone in the crapper because of this same skepticism. So the first guy that comes up with the get rich ad makes a little money, but everyone else after with their own get rich scheme doesn?t because the relatively few buyers ( % of the traffic wise)have already bought and know the scam, or they considered buying investigated and decided it was a scam and didn?t buy. So when the next guy buys an ad and attempts to promote a different type of get rich scheme the surfers have already been trained to tune the ad out.
As you mentioned bandwidth costs are low, but the other costs associated with a tube keep going up. Can you imagine the number of DMCAs these large tubes get in one day? The constant legal issues that arise and the law is evolving quickly in this are so what is legal one day isn?t necessarily the next. I note that You Tube as a result of their litigation with Viacom can?t place ads on videos until they have been screened by a Google an employee for copyright issues and the last article I read says Google only has ads on 20% of their Your Tube Videos because that. All it takes is for one of these big tubes is to piss off one of the really big fish in the industry one that won?t bat an eye at setting several millions of dollars aside just to go after their tube. You know who these big fish are because you never see their videos on the big tubes.

Are tubes going to be around long term? Yes, I think so, but I think you?re going to see something more along the lines of a lot of short clips with a few full length licensed videos bought in bulk to keep bookmakers ultimately maybe an 80/20 mix with a renewed emphasis on creating conversions/upsells to the paysites. It seems like red tube is moving in this direction.

well there goes advertising by 3xTom... gj GFY

Nah. You are an idiot. How come sales have slowed to the point they have for everyone? Sure, there is more traffic, just a lot less buyers now.

A handfull of tubes make money and they are the ones bleeding the industry dry.

A decent legal tube can pull a few sales, but can't compete with the big ones.

BANNED thank god finally!

lol, ironic

you can say that again.

You just don't get it and most likely you never will.