I didn't see any thread so far on gfy, but xbiz launched
http://www.xfanz.com
its a destination site for consumers/surfers.. much like with avn.com - focuses on video.
with another porn portal launching, it has given me a chance to ponder on some things.
I wanted to poll people's take on some issues in this thread based on some of my own observations about the changes i see happening in the industry:
- i have seen the divide between the video side of the adult biz and the internet.,. where the video people who have usually been running their business for awhile look at the internet companies like little kiddies. And the internet side sees the video side as being "old school" that they missed the internet or slow to adopt the internet.
traffic has been king for a long time, but i see a shift to content being king. There are portals and aggregrators for traffic (ie. youtube, etc) as well as search engines, porn directories, P2P, etc, etc... (some high trafficking affiliates could just become their own paysites by adding content).
I can see how surfers looking for newer and fresher content that is more exclusive then seeing the same galleries on different sites that come from the same big content producers. (this may cause some content producers to turn paysites.. Paul Markham comes to mind)
i can see a few internet companies starting to lead the path with video companies (smashbucks comes to mind immediately with them partnering with VCX). I can see more of these video/internet mash-ups happen, but only a few companies would be able to pull that off.
I see new paysites popping up with more and more shooting their own content and getting that exclusive angle on their content. Will these faster moving internet companies leap ahead of video companies who are gearing to be more internet-based because the internet side can produce content faster than the production-based methods of studios?
Will consumers be more narrowly focused to clips rather than want a full length DVD movie?
New technology such as burning DVD to a person's own burner (ie. ObjectCube) is great stuff, but does that go against the fickleness of these new generation of surfers who want more for less price and in less time?
Consumers were used to the fast-forward button on their remote for DVD, but internet offerings now have clips chopped up into scenes.
surfers are being amused by 30 second clips on various sharing sites.
Can one mega paysite contain a surfer? or will feeding content to aggregating websites with micropayment or token-based systems be the way to go?
Will the AVS model come back with a ring of micro-content websites that cater to the quick clip rather than to some full themed website?
With pressure of COPA being revisited and other issues, age verification may be truely implemented as a way of keeping minors out and letting adults find adult content.
Lots of different ideas, but they are all somewhat related to each other as porn evolves itself to address both the supply and demand issues in regards to consumers.
and where does that leave the new content producers and webmasters coming in? are they forced to create their own content? how will they distribute? build their own sites and try to get traffic? funnel their content into some kind of AVS / content sharing site with clips, etc?
probably too many things thrown in, so i'll stop for now to see where the thread goes.
Fight the rambling!