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Originally Posted by Yanks_Todd
I think 99.9% is high. People pay for sex in all forms. And there are a great many people in this world that can drop $1000s of dollars for 15 minutes of entertainment so therefore dropping $30 to save themselves 15 minutes of searching is not even an after thought. I agree that that number is high and troubling but not that high.
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99.9% might be high, but keep in mind too the economy...the money isn't flowing for most people like it used to.
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In addition, tubes vids aren't the best quality available and torrents are a pain and not instant. So will people pay for premium instant gratification? absolutely.
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IMO torrents/rapidshare/etc. are a very minor thing compared to tubes. I agree that most people don't have patience these days and expect to get what they want immediately when it comes to stuff online. Tubes ARE instant gratification. Even if one particular tube might not have EXACTLY what or who someone is looking for, people will figure out soon enough that searching for "(what they're looking for) tube" will in most cases pull up a result on a prominent tube.
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I agree here too. I will add that I believe there will be just enough of a gap so that delivering the highest rez video quality cannot be done for free. In the days of the TGP you needed to watch your wmv size and today's tubes need to watch their flv size. Their will be just enough lag to warrant paying for the best.
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I agree on the gap, but the issue is that it then winds up being the pay sites paying for all their content now for a little gap of opportunity to snag members in the brief period of time before tubes are able to sustain such content, so to me it's both a matter of it ending up tubes eventually and the worth of the pay site doing what they do to make the content for a much lesser reward than before.
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I will still say apples and oranges. People are all different, I have a story site that kills traffic wise, just daily updated text stories. Women love them. I know guys who like cams and guys that don't. Personally they do nothing for me. But I respect your opinion on this and it is certainly a huge market.
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You do bring up something I should have - there are some things that are not really "mainstream adult"...stuff like sex stories, erotica and whatnot that, like cam/chat/dating, aren't really affected by tubes. I'm sure there's others but can't think of them off the top of my head. In anything the best markets to be involved in are the ones with the lowest ratio of competition to opportunity, and smaller markets like those are always going to be viable because they are things that at least some people will be into but not major enough for it to be worth obliterating in the eyes of the major players, so competition won't be as major. Cam/chat/dating however certainly are huge and aren't really affected by tubes as of yet, so they're more or less the refuge of choice at this point for many until something comes along that might put them at jeopardy. I do give props to MFC as they found a way to make money for themselves and the models while still delivering stuff that people don't have to pay for, but I'm sure cams being available for free doesn't exactly help the cam industry as a whole.
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Thanks for the response. I can't believe I had two doctors respond, lucky me.
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LOL I'm not a doctor...I had the domain Porn.md when I signed up here (not anymore) and have been too lazy to request a name change. I iz just a domainer who has done a bit of aff stuff here and there, but thought it would be relevant to bring up a surfer perspective.