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Originally Posted by Libertine
Quality content, interactive content (webcams), tangible products (toys), non-adult content (dating). That's the future of the pay model. Margins for quality content producers/sellers will get lower, since many people who would pay to upgrade from 30 second clips to 30 minute clips will not pay to upgrade from 30 minute watchable clips to 30 minute high quality clips.
The ones who are really in trouble are the affiliates. The ones with successful tube sites will do well, but of those who have neither strong established sites/networks, nor successful tubes, a majority will go out of business because of the new, lower margins.
5 years from now, paid content will be dominated by a handful of huge networks, and free content will be dominated by a handful of tube sites, as well as a number of old-timer giants, seo'ers, etc.
The affiliate programs that are now marginally profitable will disappear. The guys that, right now, do reasonably well with a handful of tgps and a dozen blogs will disappear. Consolidation is the future.
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You're not saying content is King are you?
Sites that truly have something very good and very different will survive. Sites who think that content is not very important, can be shot by anyone for very little money and everything is solved by throwing more traffic at it will struggle. Because Tube sites will simply be a better option for the surfers looking for this content.