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Originally Posted by Robbie
Back a few years ago...before tube sites...it used to be that paysite owners refused to allow you to put their content on a page with ANY other advertisement on it.
They rightly believed that the content belonged to them and that other sites shouldn't be allowed to have advertisements on that page.
We, of course mostly did links on our TGPs. But we also made special pages with content. And our policy was to try and sell a paysite membership to the corresponding site.
And guess what? It was WILDLY successful. It was true targeted advertising.
The tube sites on the other hand: Every page is a giant spam fest of pre-paid ads.
"Branding" your video clip (you know...a watermark), is okay. But when the video is surrounded by blinking, flashing ads selling everything BUT your paysite...well, I think the results to our industry are pretty obvious.
I applaud those of you who are trying to figure out ways to get sales to your sites.
I think in the end, you're gonna find that the tube model is going to be a dead end with diminishing returns every day.
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FIDDY videos removed...
There's absolutely no question you are correct in having all those FLASHING ads in your face. Sometimes I myself can't even find the link back to my own site because of seizure-inducing flashing blinding me....
Tubes SHOULD - and we should DEMAND - an ad alongside our videos. Not ANOTHER paysite (or cam or dating site) but OUR site. There's no way a tube will remove all those ads since that's their bread-and-butter. But they might be willing to give us, the paysite owner and the supplier of the content that's feeding all they're other revenue, a "piece of the pie" if we begin removing all our legal content en masse.
There has to be a balance. the exploitation of our content will never stop altogether but MUST be reduced somewhat otherwise content providers/producers simply will not play along any longer. Those days are coming. A banner underneath the player, and even banners on our profile pages, do not and cannot compete with FLASHING ads that surround our content.