Redtube for sale - check what I received before a while - GoFuckYourself.com

CarlosTheGaucho · 03-28-2008, 01:23 PM

You all know I am against this shit, I won't share any confidential information but this is what I received before a while, I knew the guy was trying to sell that a couple months ago, now he engaged a third party company to do it:

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Subject: Acquisition opportunity/confidentiality agreement

To: Corporate Development

Dear Ladies and Gentlemen,

We would like to inform you about an acquisition opportunity. The potential target (the "Target") operates an internet based business, is the world's leading company in its segment, derives its revenue from selling website ad space and generates very high free cash flow margins. The Target's website offers users a number of features (including video uploading/sharing), attracts 5 million visitors daily, ranks among Alexa's top 50 and business volume is growing at double digit rates per month on all measures. On a monthly basis our traffic metrics approximate 40 mio unique visitors, 150 mio visits and 1.2 bn page views.

Our shareholders have decided to offer the company/its assets for sale and we hereby invite you to participate in the sale process.

In case you are interested and would like to receive detailed information on the target, we ask you to complete the attached Confidentiality Agreement and email a scan of the signed document back to us. Please be so kind to also initial the document on pages 1 -4.

Once we have received the signed agreement we can provide you with the Selling Memorandum and further information regarding the sale process.

For record keeping, please send the signed original of the Confidentiality Agreement per postal mail to us at below address.

We would appreciate you participating in the sale process. If you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact us by email at --------------------------- or by telephone.

Looking forward to being in contact with you

Best regards,

-------------------------

This is no shit - this is a real offer that came to our biz dev email, I would be, just out of curiousity interested for how much are they actually offering that, but of course even if I knew I couldn't publish it..

pocketkangaroo · 03-28-2008, 01:27 PM

Interesting. If they are spamming this out, it would seem to be they aren't as profitible as once thought.

CarlosTheGaucho · 03-28-2008, 01:30 PM

well seems they want to get rid of the can of worms and thought we might be interested.. I assume there are people mainly outside the actual internet biz who could easily consider buying it...

thoughts?

aico · 03-28-2008, 01:31 PM

"Our investors decided to get the fuck out of Dodge before the Sheriff comes to town"

03-28-2008, 01:34 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by aico

"Our investors decided to get the fuck out of Dodge before the Sheriff comes to town"

PR_Sebas · 03-28-2008, 01:56 PM

interesting news...

CarlosTheGaucho · 03-28-2008, 01:58 PM

What is your guess for the asking price?

Rumours six months ago are about a million - noone in the biz would buy it, or will they?

BSleazy · 03-28-2008, 01:58 PM

I wonder what they'll get for it.

CunningStunt · 03-28-2008, 02:01 PM

The porn equivalent of youtube, making money from stolen content. Neat idea.

Maybe google will buy it?

CarlosTheGaucho · 03-28-2008, 02:03 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by CunningStunt

The porn equivalent of youtube, making money from stolen content. Neat idea.

Maybe google will buy it?

Or Kimbo from Megarotic ;)

CunningStunt · 03-28-2008, 02:06 PM

^lol...8

fris · 03-28-2008, 02:07 PM

Does five star media still own it?

CarlosTheGaucho · 03-28-2008, 02:09 PM

Here is the pricing from Etology to sell spots at Redtube:

http://www.etology.com/buying-space-...8829&EID=51331

Let's try to calculate how much can they earn in a month from advertising..

Semi-Retired-Dave · 03-28-2008, 02:12 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by aico

"Our investors decided to get the fuck out of Dodge before the Sheriff comes to town"

Very well said...because they are coming.

slapass · 03-28-2008, 02:13 PM

the advertising looks just a bit spendy..

Duration (Days) Avg. Clicks Price Avg. CPC
1 39 $3,505.00 $89.87
3 117 $10,515.00 $89.87
7 273 $27,600.00 $101.10

CarlosTheGaucho · 03-28-2008, 02:21 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by slapass

the advertising looks just a bit spendy..

Duration (Days) Avg. Clicks Price Avg. CPC
1 39 $3,505.00 $89.87
3 117 $10,515.00 $89.87
7 273 $27,600.00 $101.10

Yeah, tell me who in their right mind would spend almost 120k a month.

What return of investment would you want, 240k?

Ok so that would mean say 8k of a profit a day, that would mean say 300 - 400 signups / day.

So you would have to get say 400 - 600 k uniques a day, in case it would be more or less convertible traffic, yet there is one diffference - it's 25k full legth movies to jerk off to and the traffic is totally untargeted..

I don't believe Etology sold one single package at this rate..

Jon Clark - BANNED FOR LIFE · 03-28-2008, 02:26 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by aico

"Our investors decided to get the fuck out of Dodge before the Sheriff comes to town"

tiger · 03-28-2008, 02:28 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Fris

Does five star media still own it?

I was wondering the same thing.

tony286 · 03-28-2008, 02:30 PM

Ive said it time and time again alot of traffic doesn't mean it converts.

Violetta · 03-28-2008, 02:33 PM

I was @ redtube last night... err..

XMaster · 03-28-2008, 02:37 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by CarlosTheGaucho

I don't believe Etology sold one single package at this rate..

obviously not.

and It must be printed in every webmaster's minds.

L-Pink · 03-28-2008, 02:37 PM

OLD NEWS.

The sale went thru about a week ago. So far I am very pleased. Never having owned a business with zero cost of goods before the financial statements are stunning. Thank you content shooters for the great work (you to Paul)

Well, back to the grindstone this user submitting stuff is time consuming. I'll post a new email address for DMCA stuff as soon as I find someone illiterate to respond for me.

PS .... still waiting on my bro club card.

xxxRumor · 03-28-2008, 02:37 PM

Quote:

I wonder what they'll get for it.

this maybe?

darkwood · 03-28-2008, 02:46 PM

300 - 400 clicks would cost around $3,000 - $4,000 for a signup! No proggie can afford that cost.

Deputy Chief Command · 03-28-2008, 02:59 PM

interesting . . mabye AFF buys it

FreeHugeMovies · 03-28-2008, 03:02 PM

Maybe Sean from AFF can tell us why AFF has to buy it, bc if the don't, AFF will lose it to a competitor.

Fap · 03-28-2008, 03:04 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by pocketkangaroo

Interesting. If they are spamming this out, it would seem to be they aren't as profitible as once thought.

or they are trying to get out while they still can

CarlosTheGaucho · 03-28-2008, 03:14 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Deputy Chief Command

interesting . . mabye AFF buys it

I doubt so, I assume AFF knows the best what sort of traffic they deal with..

papill0n · 03-28-2008, 03:14 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by aico

"Our investors decided to get the fuck out of Dodge before the Sheriff comes to town"

sounds about right to me

biskoppen · 03-28-2008, 03:28 PM

Wonder how much those 5 mills a day would turn into if someone bough it and converted it into a legal tube site

CarlosTheGaucho · 03-28-2008, 03:38 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by biskoppen

Wonder how much those 5 mills a day would turn into if someone bough it and converted it into a legal tube site

It would probably take weeks to get rid of all the stolen content in there and exchange it with the sponsors promo content.

You could probably buy feeds or something in the meantime but even if say 40 pct. of the traffic could be potentially monetizable, much of this 40 pct. will still most likely move to their other favourite illegal sites that piss on DMCA and that they allready visit...

xmas13 · 03-28-2008, 03:51 PM

What? $25,000 for 1,500 adult visitor clicks???????????????????

eMonk · 03-28-2008, 04:42 PM

i don't think pirated tubes will make it out alive by the end of the year.

madfuck · 03-28-2008, 04:43 PM

bump tht shit...

CarlosTheGaucho · 03-29-2008, 06:26 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by eMonk

i don't think pirated tubes will make it out alive by the end of the year.

that sure would be nice but it will take a lot of processing yet till the first sheriffs shots hit the target. The only issue that could make it happen would be purely economical.

I guess AFF buys their other spots, how much can they pay for it so they get a decent ROI?

25k a month? more?

crockett · 03-29-2008, 06:41 AM

Someone should start a quick law suite with them.. That way there is no hiding the fact they will end up getting sued out of business.

spanky part 2 · 03-29-2008, 07:33 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by eMonk

i don't think pirated tubes will make it out alive by the end of the year.

I should get stock quotes from you. Good Lawd u be dim.

Jens Van Assterdam · 03-29-2008, 07:45 AM

Thats so fucking unreal.. they make sooooo much ILLEGAL money!!! They should get executed asap!
No iam not from Texas

RogerV · 03-29-2008, 09:33 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by tony404

Ive said it time and time again alot of traffic doesn't mean it converts.

I totally agree... most are just free loaders that would never spend a dime since its all free

hungry hungry hippy · 03-29-2008, 09:40 AM

CarlosTheGaucho · 03-29-2008, 11:22 AM

I made some effort to find the original offer from September 2007, it's quite interesting, let me just upload it and I will share that..

CarlosTheGaucho · 03-29-2008, 11:43 AM

This is what was published at AWIW in september 2007:

Unfortunately, the link ain't working anymore and I haven't stored that..

Now I couldn't help myself to comment on that, and I indeed received a prompt and complex answer:

PS: I am not trying to break the frontiers of investigative journalism, I am mainly trying to kill the time while I am not in Phoenix

CarlosTheGaucho · 03-29-2008, 12:12 PM

Well antoher thing is - the heavenly-minded, true Christians sure don't hesitate to market other porn sites:

http://www.fivestarmedia.com/

Who would even want to consider such a bullshit as the reason?

spunkmister · 03-29-2008, 12:14 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by CarlosTheGaucho

Well antoher thing is - the heavenly-minded, true Christians sure don't hesitate to market other porn sites:

http://www.fivestarmedia.com/

Who would even want to think about such a bullshit for a reason?

because once you found god everything you did up to that point is forgivable.

polish_aristocrat · 03-29-2008, 12:15 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by CarlosTheGaucho

What is your guess for the asking price?

Rumours six months ago are about a million - noone in the biz would buy it, or will they?

a million? thats quite cheap compared to what the owners of youporn.com wanted, and that was $20 Million (or was it pornotube.com?)

edit: I see their alexa ranked improved a lot compard to 6 months ago, so I guess they must want much more than a $ million now

c0py-BANNED FOR LIFE · 03-29-2008, 12:15 PM

this is amazing!

Doctor Feelgood · 03-29-2008, 12:28 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by crockett

Someone should start a quick law suite with them.. That way there is no hiding the fact they will end up getting sued out of business.

First we need a committee to handle things like this redtube site. the most important, wealthy and trusted people from this board should form a 11 man committee. gfy will hold nominations and voting and elections. once formed the committee will police the internet and combine thier resorces to help the less fortunate and sue redtube like sites or just outright buy it and shut it down. the members of this committee must have insite of the future of the porn industry and how it should be run.

WarChild · 03-29-2008, 12:42 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Doctor Feelgood

First we need a committee to handle things like this redtube site. the most important, wealthy and trusted people from this board should form a 11 man committee. gfy will hold nominations and voting and elections. once formed the committee will police the internet and combine thier resorces to help the less fortunate and sue redtube like sites or just outright buy it and shut it down. the members of this committee must have insite of the future of the porn industry and how it should be run.

Iron Fist · 03-29-2008, 12:58 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by spunkmister

because once you found god everything you did up to that point is forgivable.

Well duh - didn't you know that everyone gets a gel out of hell free card? It's all when you play it

bdld · 03-29-2008, 03:44 PM

amazing how that site blew up so fast, hopefully it'll implode after the new owners get their hands on it.

03-28-2008, 01:23 PM	#1
CarlosTheGaucho Confirmed User Industry Role: Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 9,512	Redtube for sale - check what I received before a while You all know I am against this shit, I won't share any confidential information but this is what I received before a while, I knew the guy was trying to sell that a couple months ago, now he engaged a third party company to do it: ------------------- Subject: Acquisition opportunity/confidentiality agreement To: Corporate Development Dear Ladies and Gentlemen, We would like to inform you about an acquisition opportunity. The potential target (the "Target") operates an internet based business, is the world's leading company in its segment, derives its revenue from selling website ad space and generates very high free cash flow margins. The Target's website offers users a number of features (including video uploading/sharing), attracts 5 million visitors daily, ranks among Alexa's top 50 and business volume is growing at double digit rates per month on all measures. On a monthly basis our traffic metrics approximate 40 mio unique visitors, 150 mio visits and 1.2 bn page views. Our shareholders have decided to offer the company/its assets for sale and we hereby invite you to participate in the sale process. In case you are interested and would like to receive detailed information on the target, we ask you to complete the attached Confidentiality Agreement and email a scan of the signed document back to us. Please be so kind to also initial the document on pages 1 -4. Once we have received the signed agreement we can provide you with the Selling Memorandum and further information regarding the sale process. For record keeping, please send the signed original of the Confidentiality Agreement per postal mail to us at below address. We would appreciate you participating in the sale process. If you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact us by email at --------------------------- or by telephone. Looking forward to being in contact with you Best regards, ------------------------- This is no shit - this is a real offer that came to our biz dev email, I would be, just out of curiousity interested for how much are they actually offering that, but of course even if I knew I couldn't publish it.. __________________ CTG Media \| skype: carlosprague \| cb \|at\| ctgmedia \|dot\| net \| Want to make more with your Dating Traffic? \| Read My Educational Series \| Read my Adult Biz Chronicles \| Did your ad revenue drop by 40 pct. or more last year? Last edited by CarlosTheGaucho; 03-28-2008 at 01:24 PM.. Reason: ..

03-28-2008, 01:30 PM	#3
CarlosTheGaucho Confirmed User Industry Role: Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 9,512	well seems they want to get rid of the can of worms and thought we might be interested.. I assume there are people mainly outside the actual internet biz who could easily consider buying it... thoughts? __________________ CTG Media \| skype: carlosprague \| cb \|at\| ctgmedia \|dot\| net \| Want to make more with your Dating Traffic? \| Read My Educational Series \| Read my Adult Biz Chronicles \| Did your ad revenue drop by 40 pct. or more last year?

03-28-2008, 01:56 PM	#6
PR_Sebas Confirmed User Join Date: Dec 2006 Posts: 2,825	interesting news... __________________

03-28-2008, 01:58 PM	#7
CarlosTheGaucho Confirmed User Industry Role: Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 9,512	What is your guess for the asking price? Rumours six months ago are about a million - noone in the biz would buy it, or will they? __________________ CTG Media \| skype: carlosprague \| cb \|at\| ctgmedia \|dot\| net \| Want to make more with your Dating Traffic? \| Read My Educational Series \| Read my Adult Biz Chronicles \| Did your ad revenue drop by 40 pct. or more last year?

03-28-2008, 01:58 PM	#8
BSleazy Confirmed User Industry Role: Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: USA Posts: 6,721	I wonder what they'll get for it. __________________ icq 156131086

03-28-2008, 01:27 PM	#2
pocketkangaroo Confirmed User Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Chicago, IL Posts: 8,452	Interesting. If they are spamming this out, it would seem to be they aren't as profitible as once thought.

03-28-2008, 01:31 PM	#4
aico Moo Moo Cow Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Washington State Posts: 14,748	"Our investors decided to get the fuck out of Dodge before the Sheriff comes to town"

03-28-2008, 02:01 PM	#9
CunningStunt Confirmed User Industry Role: Join Date: Aug 2006 Posts: 5,594	The porn equivalent of youtube, making money from stolen content. Neat idea. Maybe google will buy it?

03-28-2008, 02:06 PM	#11
CunningStunt Confirmed User Industry Role: Join Date: Aug 2006 Posts: 5,594	^lol...8

03-28-2008, 02:07 PM	#12
fris Too lazy to set a custom title Industry Role: Join Date: Aug 2002 Posts: 55,372	Does five star media still own it? __________________ Since 1999: 69 Adult Industry awards for Best Hosting Company and professional excellence. WP Stuff

03-28-2008, 02:09 PM	#13
CarlosTheGaucho Confirmed User Industry Role: Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 9,512	Here is the pricing from Etology to sell spots at Redtube: http://www.etology.com/buying-space-...8829&EID=51331 Let's try to calculate how much can they earn in a month from advertising.. __________________ CTG Media \| skype: carlosprague \| cb \|at\| ctgmedia \|dot\| net \| Want to make more with your Dating Traffic? \| Read My Educational Series \| Read my Adult Biz Chronicles \| Did your ad revenue drop by 40 pct. or more last year? Last edited by CarlosTheGaucho; 03-28-2008 at 02:09 PM.. Reason: ...

03-28-2008, 02:13 PM	#15
slapass Too lazy to set a custom title Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Earth Posts: 14,622	the advertising looks just a bit spendy.. Duration (Days) Avg. Clicks Price Avg. CPC 1 39 $3,505.00 $89.87 3 117 $10,515.00 $89.87 7 273 $27,600.00 $101.10

03-28-2008, 02:30 PM	#19
tony286 lurker Industry Role: Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: atlanta Posts: 57,021	Ive said it time and time again alot of traffic doesn't mean it converts.

03-28-2008, 02:33 PM	#20
Violetta Affiliate Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 28,735	I was @ redtube last night... err.. __________________ M&A Queen

03-28-2008, 02:37 PM	#22
L-Pink working on my tan Industry Role: Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Florida/Kentucky Posts: 39,151	OLD NEWS. The sale went thru about a week ago. So far I am very pleased. Never having owned a business with zero cost of goods before the financial statements are stunning. Thank you content shooters for the great work (you to Paul) Well, back to the grindstone this user submitting stuff is time consuming. I'll post a new email address for DMCA stuff as soon as I find someone illiterate to respond for me. PS .... still waiting on my bro club card.

03-28-2008, 02:46 PM	#24
darkwood Confirmed User Industry Role: Join Date: Jun 2003 Posts: 363	300 - 400 clicks would cost around $3,000 - $4,000 for a signup! No proggie can afford that cost. __________________ 40,000 Google Clicks per month FOR SALE http://nr1girls.com

03-28-2008, 02:59 PM	#25
Deputy Chief Command Deputy Chief Command Industry Role: Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 4,482	interesting . . mabye AFF buys it __________________

03-28-2008, 03:02 PM	#26
FreeHugeMovies Too lazy to set a custom title Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Charlotte, NC Posts: 14,137	Maybe Sean from AFF can tell us why AFF has to buy it, bc if the don't, AFF will lose it to a competitor.

03-28-2008, 03:28 PM	#30
biskoppen Confirmed User Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Very small penis Posts: 5,809	Wonder how much those 5 mills a day would turn into if someone bough it and converted it into a legal tube site

03-28-2008, 03:51 PM	#32
xmas13 Confirmed User Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: GFY Posts: 5,176	What? $25,000 for 1,500 adult visitor clicks??????????????????? __________________ ICQ 557504926

03-28-2008, 04:42 PM	#33
eMonk Confirmed User Industry Role: Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Canada Posts: 2,310	i don't think pirated tubes will make it out alive by the end of the year.

03-28-2008, 04:43 PM	#34
madfuck Registered User Join Date: Oct 2004 Posts: 2,032	bump tht shit...

03-29-2008, 06:41 AM	#36
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03-29-2008, 07:45 AM	#38
Jens Van Assterdam The Dupre Pimp Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Koh Samui Posts: 6,677	Thats so fucking unreal.. they make sooooo much ILLEGAL money!!! They should get executed asap! No iam not from Texas __________________ Read TOS for signature rules

03-29-2008, 09:40 AM	#40
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03-29-2008, 11:22 AM	#41
CarlosTheGaucho Confirmed User Industry Role: Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 9,512	I made some effort to find the original offer from September 2007, it's quite interesting, let me just upload it and I will share that.. __________________ CTG Media \| skype: carlosprague \| cb \|at\| ctgmedia \|dot\| net \| Want to make more with your Dating Traffic? \| Read My Educational Series \| Read my Adult Biz Chronicles \| Did your ad revenue drop by 40 pct. or more last year?

03-29-2008, 11:43 AM	#42
CarlosTheGaucho Confirmed User Industry Role: Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 9,512	This is what was published at AWIW in september 2007: Unfortunately, the link ain't working anymore and I haven't stored that.. Now I couldn't help myself to comment on that, and I indeed received a prompt and complex answer: PS: I am not trying to break the frontiers of investigative journalism, I am mainly trying to kill the time while I am not in Phoenix __________________ CTG Media \| skype: carlosprague \| cb \|at\| ctgmedia \|dot\| net \| Want to make more with your Dating Traffic? \| Read My Educational Series \| Read my Adult Biz Chronicles \| Did your ad revenue drop by 40 pct. or more last year? Last edited by CarlosTheGaucho; 03-29-2008 at 11:44 AM.. Reason: ...

03-29-2008, 12:12 PM	#43
CarlosTheGaucho Confirmed User Industry Role: Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 9,512	Well antoher thing is - the heavenly-minded, true Christians sure don't hesitate to market other porn sites: http://www.fivestarmedia.com/ Who would even want to consider such a bullshit as the reason? __________________ CTG Media \| skype: carlosprague \| cb \|at\| ctgmedia \|dot\| net \| Want to make more with your Dating Traffic? \| Read My Educational Series \| Read my Adult Biz Chronicles \| Did your ad revenue drop by 40 pct. or more last year? Last edited by CarlosTheGaucho; 03-29-2008 at 12:15 PM.. Reason: ...

03-29-2008, 12:15 PM	#46
c0py-BANNED FOR LIFE So Fucking Banned Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: UK Posts: 195	this is amazing!

03-29-2008, 03:44 PM	#50
bdld $100,000 Join Date: Dec 2001 Posts: 11,452	amazing how that site blew up so fast, hopefully it'll implode after the new owners get their hands on it.