Pornhub Offers To Buy Vine Because 'Six Seconds Is More Than Enough' (cnet.com) 58
An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNET: Earlier on Thursday Twitter announced it was ending Vine's short run, and the adult site was quick to come to the rescue -- maybe. In a letter from Pornhub VP Corey Price to Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey that was shared with CNET, Price lays out the rationale: "We figure since Twitter has dropped (Vine) and is having significant layoffs, that you and your stakeholders could benefit from a cash infusion from the sale of Vine. Not to mention we would be saving Vine gems like 'Damn Daniel,' 'Awkward Puppets' and many more." Pornhub also promises to "restore Vine to Its NSFW glory," saying that clips "of porn in six seconds is more than enough time for most people to enjoy themselves." Unless pointing out a company's recent hardships in a letter and sharing it with a reporter is the latest Silicon Valley negotiating tactic, it seems pretty clear that the offer is a tongue-in-cheek jab at Twitter and its decision to shutter the video looping platform that has caused so much joy and often humiliation. But who knows, maybe Twitter will be willing to deal with Pornhub.
6 seconds.. ? (Score:4, Funny)
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"they must be referring to a 6 second clip that loops for 15 seconds. even then.. after repeating 6 times it gets pretty old. I guess I am very lucky I married my girl."
Your girl complains that your 3 and a half minutes is not enough for her.
Re:It takes me much longer than 6 seconds... (Score:3)
The average sexual intercourse consists of just over 100 "roundtrips". There is no stats available for solitary sex, as far as I know, but it is unlikely to be immensely higher. The bulk of porn nowadays is delivered in small doses. Lots of them.
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How do they make money anyway? (Score:2)
Well, Vine probably didn't make money. But how do sites like Pornhub make money anyway? Just with ads?
Re:How do they make money anyway? (Score:5, Insightful)
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Yes, and the rest of us are very grateful for them.
In no way should anyone ever make fun of anyone else for paying for porn. Just thank them.
Re: How do they make money anyway? (Score:4, Interesting)
A good article in The Economist magazine about how the porn business model has evolved on the internet, particularly focused on the recent rise of the porn tube industry:
http://www.economist.com/news/... [economist.com]
From the article, perhaps this is the anecdote you where thinking of:
"IT WAS 2012, and Fabian Thylmann's goal was world domination. The man who had put together Manwin, an emerging online-pornography giant, now controlled most of the top ten porn "tubes" - aggregators that, like YouTube, contain thousands of videos and are wildly popular, because much of their content is free. If he could get hold of the two biggest, XVideos and XHamster, he could put it all behind a pay barrier and build an online porn empire. If competitors emerged, he would buy them, too. What antitrust authority would rein in a monopolist in a business that upstanding people pretend does not exist?"
"But neither of his targets would sell. The French owner of XVideos is said to have turned down an offer of more than $120m with a scornful "Sorry, I have to go and play Diablo II." Mr Thylmann later sold out of Manwin (since renamed Mindgeek), after coming under investigation by tax authorities in Germany, his home country."
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And no, 6 seconds really isn't enough, unless they happen to have a LOT of goats. I mean, way more than the usual ones. Like, at least 10-15 goats...
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Guy got goat game going good.
GoatsECX (Score:2)
They post some free samples that cut off just before the money shot [...] 6 seconds really isn't enough, unless they happen to have a LOT of goats.
They could call the site GoatsECX: Every Clip Extended.
$10.99 a moive with only about 6 sec of sex it in (Score:2)
$10.99 a moive with only about 6 sec of sex it in
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"Well, Vine probably didn't make money. But how do sites like Pornhub make money anyway? Just with ads?"
Congrats, you just figured out the Internets.
Re: How do they make money anyway? (Score:2)
They record visitor habits, data mine the shit out of it, sell on the results, and market their it expertise. In addition, Mindgeek, who own the pornhub network, also own a number of major porn studios. So ads and visitor habits are likely their products.
Yeah good luck with that (Score:1)
That would be the worst decision pornhub could make. The first year or so of vine was filled with underage teens posting porn vines. That's something that would likely unravel pornhub once the law starts cracking down on it.
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"That would be the worst decision pornhub could make. The first year or so of vine was filled with underage teens posting porn vines."
Duh! That's why they are interested in it. If there's a crackdown, some teens go to jail and not them.
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Not only that but Google sometimes buys really great products/companies and just shuts them down. The Sparrow E-mail client was amazing; Google bought and killed it. I'm still angry at them for that one.
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"Google bought and killed it. I'm still angry at them for that one."
You must lead a happy life, being angry at stuff you can't change, complain about the weather often?
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I guess I'm more sad about it these days. That E-mail client had so much potential; it had just come out and was already amazing so who knows what the company would have done with it if they hadn't been bought out.
Instead it's gone.
And yeah the weather sucks. It's been raining most of the past couple of days. :)
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Whatever Google does, you can only be sure of three Web things (at the time I'm writing this, anyway): search, maps, email. That's it. Anything else and you're on your own.
It will be short... (Score:1)
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Err...you can do that with a partner too...
Just get up, throw her a towel for herself and the wet spot and be about your way doing what you feel like...
Easy-Peasy....
New direction for Twitter (Score:2)
If you had watched Apple's Keynote yesterday you would have seen it coming. Twitter are going in a very different direction with video.
Also, "six seconds is more than enough"? Damn Jack, talk about premature quotes.
Coming soon ... (Score:2)
Coming soon to a website near you.
Seriously? (Score:3)
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Even though, let's face it, minors are one the largest consumers of porn, that's not something that a porn company is allowed to publicly acknowledge.
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Reminds me of a 1989 SNL skit with Kevin Nealon (Score:5, Funny)
Kevin Nealon: I was interested at first... then got more interested... Then very interested... Then very interested... Then very, very interested... Then suddenly... not that interested.
But then Nealon “reviews” a gay porn movie, All About Jeff, featuring a cassette with a picture of gay porn star Jeff Stryker:
Kevin Nealon: I was horrified, disgusted... somewhat interested, interested... very interested, then suddenly embarrassed, disgusted with myself, ashamed."
That's what he said. (Score:2)
Six Seconds Is More Than Enough
Worst pick-up line - ever.
HAHAHA (Score:2)
Oh boy, if there's anything the big porn portals can do other than providing porn of course, is to bring some laughs for the most random piece of current news. That and host content that is being banned everywhere else.