PornoTube

[Senator_x]

Originally Posted by fusionx

It's easier and faster if you ask us directly. We don't usually scour the forums to do support or PR/customer service. We usually don't have time.



Please don't put words in my mouth. What I said was, paraphrasing, if copyrighted content is found and reported we remove it. If a user reports it, we look, and we take it down. And believe me, people report everything. We get so many false positives on content it takes up about 6 hours every day to go through the reports.



Again, you are making assumptions without even beginning to understand the model we operate under.

Individual webmasters are doing great with the traffic. Many of them host the vids there and use the vids on their own sites - it's free bandwidth. Studios love it so far, and many programs are encouraging their affiliates to use the service. Watermarked content provides excellent free branding, and you can of course put URLs in the description or even titles if you want.

With all that being said, of course we direct traffic to our own VOD sites, and we direct traffic to our partners and advertisers. We do it all through clicked URLs - no blind links, no skimming, nothing like that.

You'll find we run an open, honest program and we play very nicely with others. We probably give more away to affiliates and partners than anyone else in the biz. I'm not talking about schwag - hats, coffee mugs, trips to costa rica.. I'm talking about substantial biz things like bandwidth, free minutes for their surfers, e-mail campaigns for affiliates, all kinds of stuff.

I'm not going to respond tit for tat here, and I'm not going to argue with anyone on message boards, as far as our business models are concerned. As I said earlier, I don't have the time. If you have questions feel free to write to support or call, and we'll answer your questions.

Are you an affiliate of AEBN? Just curious.

Branding is so important, I can't believe people can't see this.

Brand your product, upload it to PornoTube and repeat.

[fusionx]

Originally Posted by babymaker

it gets like 50+ million visits a day

Soon, soon!

We aren't quite that high yet.. close, but not quite

[Greenguy]

Originally Posted by fusionx

...Please don't put words in my mouth. What I said was, paraphrasing, if copyrighted content is found and reported we remove it. If a user reports it, we look, and we take it down. And believe me, people report everything. We get so many false positives on content it takes up about 6 hours every day to go through the reports....

Don't take this the wrong way, but when you allow anyone with a valid email address to upload content to your servers as well as police the files on your server, you don't really have the right to complain that it eats up a lot of time.

Originally Posted by Senator_x

....Also, adult webmaster have to know CSS like their top of their dicks...

I've been a webmaster for 10+_ years & the 1st time I even put css on a site was a couple months ago - and I hate it & I'm probably going to stop using it.

Originally Posted by Senator_x

Branding is so important, I can't believe people can't see this.

Brand your product, upload it to PornoTube and repeat....

The argument here isn't the importance of branding.

And, I don't know if you've looked around too much, but a majority of the people that post on this board do not have their own content to brand & upload anyplace.

Go re-read my 4th post: "This is going to be a good discussion...." & hopefully that'll explain what the issue is.

[Jeremy]

Originally Posted by GonZo

Im sure as a link list owner you will agree that the thumbbed TGPs were bad for link lists.

AdultBuffet was bad for Links Lists.

ThumbTGPs were bad for just about everybody. Especially when people decided it was better to have a fancy schmancy design with lots of big thumbs than any banners or advertising. Watch the counter spin, baby!

Senator_X - branding is eventually worth fuck all if it doesn't convert into traffic and sales. Don't believ all the hype :-)

fusionx - Good luck with it. It's a fine line you'e walking. I wonder if Web2.0 may be about to explode into law suits etc (Universal vs MYSpace etc etc). In the meantime, mind if I borrow AEBN's content library? I'll remove it if it's found and reported. ;-))))

[Toby]

Originally Posted by fusionx

It's easier and faster if you ask us directly. We don't usually scour the forums to do support or PR/customer service. We usually don't have time.

Som of my other questions were responded to in those threads, but not that one.

Originally Posted by fusionx

Please don't put words in my mouth. What I said was, paraphrasing, if copyrighted content is found and reported we remove it. If a user reports it, we look, and we take it down. And believe me, people report everything. We get so many false positives on content it takes up about 6 hours every day to go through the reports.

Seems to me we just said the same thing using different words. The fact remains, only copyrighted items that are reported are removed. Given the number of uploads, whether 6 hours or 60 hours are spent per day, there is still a significant amount of unauthorized content that remains.

Originally Posted by fusionx

Again, you are making assumptions without even beginning to understand the model we operate under.

I can only go by what I see on the web site. If there's more to the model please fill us all in.

I do not have my own content to brand and upload. Like the majority of the people on this board I make my living promoting programs owned by others.

As for using your bandwidth, thanks but I prefer to keep my stuff on a server I have control of myself. If a movie gallery is submitted to any of my TGP's with the video hosted on pornotube it wouldn't even get past my submit script, and that's without any modifications to the out of the box settings.

Originally Posted by fusionx

Are you an affiliate of AEBN? Just curious.

Yes, as a matter of fact I am. Ask Gonzo about me he can fill you in.

Bottom line, in my opinion, the end does not justify the means.

[Toby]

Originally Posted by Jeremy

....In the meantime, mind if I borrow AEBN's content library? I'll remove it if it's found and reported. ;-))))

DING DING DING DING, give the man a Kewpie Doll. That's the whole discussion in a nutshell.

[DJilla]

Originally Posted by Toby

What you're saying is that unless content owners find their content on pornotube and ask for it's removal, it will remain. That may be enough to cover your ass legally, but ethically it's a cop out. You know as well as I do that for every removal request there will be dozens if not hundreds of pics and vids posted without the authorization of the rightful owners.

IMHO Not really. This is simply the traditional model that has existed in law for copyright infringement forever. Your negative effects are no different than all those xerox pages out there but when there becomes an obvious and egregious infringement the owner serves notice and etc. Really I think there is not even an ethical quedstion involved. I think you're just seeing a competitive model change and its name is VIDEO. Don't be a hater, be a player, or a quiter.

Originally Posted by Toby

The only winners I see here are some program owners that will post their own content and AEBN who will redirect traffic to their own programs, with much of that traffic built upon the illegally posted content of others.

Though I technically agree, its only because this Pornotuby thing is the first name recognition/bw/scripted site. As others come online to compete for surfers they will add to the choices of type and manner of directing, getting, receiving, traffic and biz relationships.

I think you may be seeing a serious threat to text based LL's from two approaches, first surfers are clearly voting for video, so LL's may get relagated to the visually impaired and accessible audience if they fail to keep up. Secondly, video sites are a direct way for content providers to present their wares directly to the surfer bypassing the middleman LL owners who had previously directed them.

So the next question out there is how do you do this thing and how much bandwidth/computing power does it take?

[camfrog]

Its good if you want to embed some movie clips into your blog.

[Beaver Bob]

Originally Posted by fusionx

Is this it? http://www.pornotube.com/media.php?m=73347

I'm not in a position to access the databases right now so I can't check on the uplaod date. I'm guessing you reuploaded it.

There are still some issues with uploads when the site is getting really hammered. The conversion process is a bit fragile yet, and needs to be reworked to make it more bulletproof.

We're adding more feedback, also. Right now, we have an e-mail message that we send to our techies when something fails. When we get the time to reformat it for users we'll turn that on. Right now it's all numbers and codes that no one but the programmers could ever decipher.

yes thats it, thank you

right on.. so instead of putting that trailer on my server and eating up my bandwidth, i could just embed that on my blog?

either way, i'm interested to see what happens with this site.

[Toby]

Originally Posted by DJilla

...Really I think there is not even an ethical quedstion involved. I think you're just seeing a competitive model change and its name is VIDEO. Don't be a hater, be a player, or a quiter.

We're just going to have to agree to disagree here. I think there is a considerable ethical question when the sites enormous traffic base is built upon a the availability of a huge amount of free porn, much of which is uploaded illegally. See the last sentence of Jeremy's post (#29) where he places the shoe on the other foot.

[GonZo]

Originally Posted by Toby

DING DING DING DING, give the man a Kewpie Doll. That's the whole discussion in a nutshell.

Just a minor point. That content isnt AEBN's in most cases. Its the studios.

[fusionx]

Originally Posted by Jeremy

fusionx - Good luck with it. It's a fine line you'e walking. I wonder if Web2.0 may be about to explode into law suits etc (Universal vs MYSpace etc etc). In the meantime, mind if I borrow AEBN's content library? I'll remove it if it's found and reported. ;-))))

Feel free! We make a ton of stuff available, and you can give all your surfers 30 free minutes

[fusionx]

Originally Posted by Greenie

Don't take this the wrong way, but when you allow anyone with a valid email address to upload content to your servers as well as police the files on your server, you don't really have the right to complain that it eats up a lot of time.

No complaints at all! It's just part of doing business. Sorry it came off as a whine

[nekrom]

I just see adult variants of youtube as natural progression. Over the past few years, newer business models has always bumped the one before it down the ladder.

I say adapt and get in on the ground level. So you have an advantage for when it becomes the norm.

-N

[Senator_x]

Originally Posted by nekrom

I just see adult variants of youtube as natural progression. Over the past few years, newer business models has always bumped the one before it down the ladder.

I say adapt and get in on the ground level. So you have an advantage for when it becomes the norm.

-N

Evolve or die.

An adult webmaster today has to be well rounded to make a living.

I just can't submit to linklist, tgps or dumps for traffic. I have to generate traffic and execute.

Some people can lay back and collect big fat checks because they were first.

Trust me they will evolve.

[DJilla]

Originally Posted by Toby

We're just going to have to agree to disagree here. I think there is a considerable ethical question when the sites enormous traffic base is built upon a the availability of a huge amount of free porn.

We don't even disagree I totally see where you're coming from and you are technically right. However, the market based reality is 21st century. Some CEO (Sun I think) years ago annoyed me with the proclamation that "privacy is dead, get over it" but he was right. The same can be said about "copyright is dead". The present model is just thrashing on the doctor's table and you're seeing the reality of it in things like we discussing here.

I would suggest that it is BECAUSE there is so much free porn out there that a site like porntube could be viable.... not the other way around. There has been way too much free porn out there becasue of the intense competition of having so many people in the business who really probably should'nt be there.

This phenomonon has been predicted for many years depending on broadband bandwidth infrastructure growth.

I totally agree that a company doing this had better have some good lawyers though 'cause they'll be in a dozen state courts on lots of bullshit cases.

But video is coming and coming FAST and its clearly what surfers want. WM's who want to stay better figure out how to do it or some version of it. Also, think.... how video transcends the marketplace and limitations of web language and reach. How many Mexican nationals are here on the board? A video site might be seeing international conversions go through the roof.

[Greenguy]

Originally Posted by Senator_x

...Some people can lay back and collect big fat checks because they were first...

Would you like to direct that at anyone in particular or was it just a general statement?

[Senator_x]

Originally Posted by Greenie

Would you like to direct that at anyone in particular or was it just a general statement?

Intented for general consumption.


Pornotube has a model already established and proving to produce traffic.
Is PornoTube profitable? <---That is another discussion.
Does it have traffic? Yes.

A more savvy webmaster can exploit(in the good way) PornoTube's traffic for their own websites.

[Greenguy]

Originally Posted by Senator_x

...A more savvy webmaster can exploit(in the good way) PornoTube's traffic for their own websites.

How so?

[[BV]]

Originally Posted by Senator_x

Good for program owners who want to brand their products, bad for webmaster since they can't brand other peoples products as their own.

Webmaster with original products(amateurish stuff) can benefit by adding movies with their website URL watermarked. This can drive traffic virally just like youtube does for mainstream sites.

Affiliate webmasters can buy some video clips and brand them with their own url. (ATGP, MGP, or Free Site owner could put their url on the video)

The problem now though is, if the video shows anything more than titties their has to be a 2257 disclaimer in the first part of the video.

I don't see hardly anyone doing this though. Very scary if you ask me.

[emmanuelle]

I've been wondering for some time why the owners of linklists, tgps and similar types of sites have not adapted their marketing plans to include newer opportunities. It wouldn't be a huge undertaking to comission a video clip or assemble galleries/ freesites that promote their link list as a whole, rather than the individual sponsors. Think of it like a commercial... "At ____.com you'll find....." You could get really creative with this stuff, and not be limited by how an individual paysite or sponsor needs to be represented. The galleries/ freesites could be submitted or traded- probably more effective than a 120x60 recip, and the clips could be used in places such as pornotube or peer-to-peer.
Just like beer commercials, they don't even need to show the product, but maybe reflect an attitude. The possibilities are endless.

[GonZo]

Originally Posted by Senator_x

Intented for general consumption.


Pornotube has a model already established and proving to produce traffic.
Is PornoTube profitable? <---That is another discussion.
Does it have traffic? Yes.

A more savvy webmaster can exploit(in the good way) PornoTube's traffic for their own websites.

Do you work in Charlotte in a role Im unaware of?
Your making a lot of uninformed assumtions here.

[Greenguy]

Originally Posted by emmanuelle

... or assemble galleries/ freesites that promote their link list as a whole, rather than the individual sponsors. Think of it like a commercial... "At ____.com you'll find....." You could get really creative with this stuff, and not be limited by how an individual paysite or sponsor needs to be represented. The galleries/ freesites could be submitted or traded- probably more effective than a 120x60 recip...

I've seen some free sites that were nothing but advertisements for a link list & I've seen a lot of them that have something along the line of "This site & many others like it can be found at...."

[Toby]

OK, in keeping with the can't beat'em, join'em line of thought. No one has asked the sixty-four thousand dollar question.

How well does this traffic convert if you are successful at diverting some of it to your LL or TGP? Just how much time and effort is justified?

[GonZo]

Originally Posted by Toby

OK, in keeping with the can't beat'em, join'em line of thought. No one has asked the sixty-four thousand dollar question.

How well does this traffic convert if you are successful at diverting some of it to your LL or TGP? Just how much time and effort is justified?

I can answer that question. Weve seen great conversion running clips that go directly to Squirting Carly at Fat Fucking Cash.

And if you have a unique or eye cathicng title or video clip I can pump traffic to any free site that Ive had by putting the url in a few clips.