How do tube sites earn money?
 

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you just missed the answer

Why don't you viist redtube.com and do some fucking detective work.

http://s22.postimg.org/opietx959/rt_money.jpg

Ads, Popups, HD subscritions, and Cams.

:1orglaugh Srsly?
Ads, durrrr

tubes get revenue from pre-paid gallery placements on the top 15 spaces and banners. the rest of the galleries are free placements.

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What he said!

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been thinking of thehun :)

Money laundering, data mining, backdoors for gouvernments, etc.

I have no doubt that they wipe their asses with the little they make from Ads, subscritions, Cams, etc

Back in my days the porn cinema provided a high cash flow business to clean the money from copyright infringment of mainstream films and drugs. The tubes are the porno theatre of today so not much has really has changed. It is also the reason they have no cares about production.

They sell coke.

:1orglaugh:1orglaugh The big tubes make millions off their ad spots, subscriptions and cams.

we wont know until we figure out how the hun makes money

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And my dear deceased friend Mickey Zaffarano made all his money selling pizzas.

If the day ever comes that I find myself hoping for a fairy tale... I will just ask for a blow job from one of the faggot trannies that come into my place of business. And I promise to make you jealous by telling you all about it.

heh good old times, even he see what was good :pimp

Getting traffic from SE and selling ad spaces.

Whatever you need to tell yourself, some of these sites have tens of millions visitors a day and sell ads all day long. They could even set it at .10cpm, which is quite low, and still bring in millions of dollars every month. That's not even including cams and other stuff.

From pirate funders mostly.

i don't get the way hosting fits in that calculation but then again i've been on same vps for last 5 years
is b/w super cheap nowadays?

This it does facebook, gmail and yahoo.
Not so much porn tubes, as not much to data mine or government to learn about anyone.
As everyone noted (except you), revenue source it is ads.

The best estimate I can give is that tubes make between $0.50 - $4 per 1,000 uniques. On average I would guess it's around $1.50 per 1,000 uniques. The number is likely falling over time.

If a tube site does 1 million uniques per day then as an example they do about $1500 in revenue per day.

If you think I'm an idiot then show me why and show your work in solving the problem.

Wait - tubes make MONEY?
WTF?

Yes it is. Especially at as you scale up. But the profit margins tend to be down versus five years ago.

Interesting extrapolation. Let's say my numbers are right and a tube network does 100 million uniques per day (very large).

That is $150,000 per day or about 55 million in revenue per year.

For how much traffic that is it isn't very much considering they now control most of the adult traffic.

That would also be revenue before expenses.

I think those are some pretty good estimates, it may go down towards the lower end of the estimate for the megatubes but there's really only a handful of those and they make it up on volume.

If you have to ask... You shouldn't be in this business.

How Tubesites Make Money
 

1) The first method tube sites employ to make money is "Time on site". Most tube sites keep visitors engaged for 8 and a half minutes. That's almost identical to the amount of time it takes sunlight to travel from the sun to the earth.

2) The second method is of course "Memberships".

3) The third method incorporates "White lables", albeit Cams, Dating, or Novelties.

4) The fourth method is "Digital Real Estate", most tube sites boast thousands of SEO'd pages with each and every page being optimized with Banners, Slide ups, Pops, Video ads, Text links, and Trade scrips. Selling ad placements for the most visited pages at retail garner the biggest Return on investment followed by using high paying CPM for the remaining ad slots.

5) The next method for making money tube sites employ is "Reselling their massive amounts of traffic".

6) The last method smart tube sites employ is "Engaging Their Audience with targeted email swipes".

All these methods working together simultaneously with gargantuan daily traffic makes for a very good lifestyle and income.

lol @Stefan!

The Bottom Line
 

The bottom line is...Tube sites are really in the business of giving porn away for FREE.

So the real money is made by brokering their traffic. Every batch of 1,000 visitors is worth a certain dollar amount referred to as Earnings per visitors. So without so much as a visitor buying anything the tube sites makes an estimated dollar amount off of every visitor.

With millions of visitors per day...Can you say, "Cha Ching".

This is a revolutionary business model very few people understand.

If you want a real world indication just how obscure peoples view of money really is. Ask 100 people you know, "What United States President has his face on a 10 dollar bill"?

Despite people having held thousands of 10 dollar bills in their hands paying for goods over decades. I estimate that less the 5% of the people you ask will answer correctly.

The correct answer by the way is...Alexander Hamilton. Albeit he was never a President just the first Secretary of the Treasury.

Without a doubt I speak from an era long gone.

But I know what I know. So let me say that the biggest problem the average "pornographer" of today is that they are just a punter playing on the Internet. They think with their egos and dicks and have no ability to smell a spook, rat or a sucker. Rest assured that without a doubt all 3 are involved in tube sites.

I know that spooks are involved because porn tube sites get away with breaking laws that anyone trying to do similar with DVDs would be thrown into Sing Sing for. If anyone tried to market a DVD without the paperwork or got caught letting an adolsecent in their porn cinema they would be busted in seconds. Whereas today no one is even attempting to enforce laws concerning proof of performer's age or consent and preventing children from seeing it is a pathetic joke.

Gouvernment and their spooks are just another bunch of criminals.

To this extent any old school fedora can tell you that bankers and spooks are more often than not lovey-dovey bum buddies. Therefore more than anything else this bullshit about hedge funds and tube sites makes me smell spook involvement. Most likely the tubes are cleaning the money for gouvernment backed weapons dealers and mercenaries. Least we not foget that Internet porn is doing to the arab muslims what alcohol did to the Indians. (If you want to know who is beind something look at who stands to profit the most.)

As for the faces you see every day behind the tube sites. Well these are just suckers in waiting. Sooner or later some rat is going to squeel (probably a sucker that does NOT want to take the fall) and then people will get whacked and the company will collapse due to "mismanagement."

Nothing is new and sooner or later this will all be proven true.

Giving away for free it is the future not only in adult (see myfreecams, chaturbate etc.) but also in mainstream. For example see the freemium in video games:

http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2014/02/...reemium-model/

No one let you pay in advance for download and play video games anymore, hardly pay in advance to watch nude live cam shows, and so why one should pre-pay to watch a prerecorded video? All is given free, then one every many will buy something for some reason, perhaps a strange reason.

The reason Freemium works is because the user gets a chance to try the product to an extent where he cannot live without it. So if he wants more, he starts paying.

It also opens up your market to people who would have never paid in advance for a product they did not fully know about or understand.

Those that are failing in the freemium market are those that make products that are sub-par to their counterparts.