The majority of the content on our sites is exclusive and made by us. I think that is the key factor in our really high retention rate. The fact that we have stuff that they cant see anywhere else.

However, we do use the AEBN leased feeds on our site and our members do use and enjoy them. Not that we hear lots of good comments when they are running fine, but let them be down for a bit and we will get some heated emails from our members.

We initially chose them because they have a gay asian feed of 4 movies per month. It was sort of funny this month when I went to check a reported problem with the feeds and found our dvd featured on there.

I do follow the stats on feed usage and was surprized to find the amount of stuff outside our niche the members are looking at. Kind of fun to be able to see which niches are the most popular in planning for future development.

I dont think feeds bring down the value of exclusve content at all. I think they are pretty different things and serve different purposes. I dont see how anyone can expect to put together a site that is nothing but feeds and make any money, and one of those was recently pointed out to me. All I could think is there are so many sites you could get all those feeds plus some real content from the owner of the site, why would anyone stay with a site that was feeds only.