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Originally Posted by kane
Simple, advertising. As of right now it is still working. They are still selling memberships to dating sites and live cams and even some paysites so giving away all this content for free is not hurting their bottom line. They might not have as good of rations as other sites could, but clearly they are doing well enough to make them want to keep giving it away for free.
If there comes a day that the number of people what join various sites from these tube sites drops to where they are making little or no money from it then they will be forced to change.
One of the biggest culprits in the free porn world is cheap bandwidth. I now pay $8 a month for hosting that is 10 times better than what I paid $100 a month for in 2000. If hosting costs were the same today as they were 10-12 years ago tube sites likely wouldn't exist.
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Not that simple.
The budget in online porn for "marketing" is too bloated. Let's say it's 40% of the revenue. $40 in every $100 is spend on getting traffic to a site to make the sale. If it were only 10%, the advertising wouldn't pay the bill for running a Tube. Even today we have thread after thread of people asking for 5 minute free clips for Tubes, maybe hosted and in a way that it's little more than a click of a button to load it.
With lots of replies, from sponsors able, because the budget for marketing makes it possible, able to deliver. I remember someone from a big Tube telling us they need 8 minute clips, with a climax shot if they were to add them to their Tubes. And they seem to be getting them.
The biggest culprit in the free porn world is the paid porn world. Cheap bandwidth is a saving that could of been passed onto the consumer and not the marketing sector.