I made this post a while back and no one bothered to reply. So here we go again.
It's purely my thoughts on the long term effect of Tubes, legal or not.
What will be the long term effect of getting traffic by teaching surfers the products you sell are free?
Increasingly surfers will become less willing to pay. Paysite joins will become harder and harder to get. So Tube sites will become more reliant on selling ad space to fund the cost of Tubes. With such a small pool of people willing to advertise in the porn arena this funding is limited.
Fine while Dating, Cam and penis sites continue to spend. But as those who want to buy one of these products is reached and has their favorites or disillusioned at the product the buyers will dry up. Or the buyers will increasing start to think those products should be free as well. They will be looking for Dating and Cam sites supported by adverting or donations. Plenty of Fish and My Free Cams come to mind immediately.
Will they spend as much as AFF on adverts?
At the moment increases in traffic might be hiding the underlying effect of teaching surfers NOT to spend money. The real truth is in the ratios. Are more people per 1,000 spending money to support advertisers or less. The only people who know the truth are the last to tell us. Fabian will come here and tell us all is fine. And we all know we can trust him.
