My traffic is pretty much direct/word of mouth. I haven't done any advertising, just a few links on places like HN. The problem with a YouTube video site like

My traffic is pretty much direct/word of mouth. I haven't done any advertising, just a few links on places like HN. The problem with a YouTube video site like tubalr is you can't use adsense unless you have a lot of added content and you are competing with the ads in the videos anyways. And in my experience other ad networks have really bad CPM rates. So you probably have to find another way to monetize the site, which is tricky. The sad fact is that music/video sites while fun to build are a hard way to make money (having built a few myself).