Some sponsor may pull the plug; but it will because they are not converting and nothing
else. These tubes don't burn anymore bandwidth that a TGP full of their hosted galleries.
So if the sponsor can't let the tube leech then I don't see how they can afford hosted galleries either.

Hosted galleries might actually use more bandwidth since the gallery has
images that load but the tube just loads the specific video to watch.
Not to mention text links leading the same surfer to the same gallery to reload it
all over again on 10 different TGPs.

The issue with leeching will not be about the "numbers", because the numbers are way in
favor of leeching. It will be about "anti-leeching" as we have percieved it in the past. Youtube proved that letting other websites leech can be a big promotional boost for your website. Some people get it some people don't.

Porn Tubes need to be more like Mainstream tubes.

FACT!

I know from my clients comments the videos hosted from sponsors servers are making sales. If the webmaster had to pay for the bandwidth on top of that they might brake even or a little over, so having the video hotlinked is the only option for small players.

Of course their easy to setup and you don't resort to stealing like others have. :)

i own probably some of the best domain to start one but fuck im a lazy ass :(

among the top 100 global sites in Alexa, there are 4 adult sites right now and 3 of them are tube sites

42. www.youporn.com
50. www.redtube.com
54. www.adultfriendfinder.com
59. www.pornhub.com

I should have worded the thread title better, the adult tube sites reached popularity that TGP's could only dream about...

Yes, i've been saying this ..... tube sites are the new TGP and MGP......