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The article makes it sound like all company revenue comes from tubes sites. The company also owns hundreds of pay-to-access original content sites (ever hear of
by dev1920 11y ago
The article makes it sound like all company revenue comes from tubes sites. The company also owns hundreds of pay-to-access original content sites (ever hear of Brazzers?). This company was not the first to do tubes; they had to adopt the format because competitors did so first and their revenue suffered. Once again, a large part of the problem is users opting to not pay if someone else will illegally put it up for free. You want free tubes to go away? Stop watching tubes and go pay for a monthly Brazzers subscription.
- Mikushi 11y agoNot really, Pornhub was launched in 2007, at that time they were not that many other prominent tube sites, Youporn had been around for a bit longer but Brazzers was pretty much printing cash at that point and growing insanely fast. They did not do it to reply to the competition and revenue was sure as hell not suffering, they did it because it was the future and they saw it as such as well as a great way for them to funnel sign ups to Brazzers and other paysites such as Moviebox. By then they were already a dominant force in the market and moved on to acquire most other tube sites to apply the same model as they did on Pornhub. Also last time I heard advertisement on tube site were still the main revenue stream for them, might have changed now as I've been out for a few years. Source: Was Lead Developer on Pornhub and Back end dev on Brazzers before that.