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Sitting on the side lines and observing this is what I saw.
In the beginning it was a mad rush to get any affiliate to throw up galleries, links or anything else. If he sent 1 sign up a month or 1 a day it was all good. If he sent 50 a day he commanded his price. Everyone believed;
The more free content on the Net = the more sign ups there to be got.
The cost was high and the direction it took the Adult Net was not customer friendly. Pop ups, trading, scamming to pay for traffic, sites full of crap content (even if it was exclusive) led to customer dis satisfaction. The only thing holding it together was the lack of options the customer had.
Then Tubes blew the whole thing out of the water.
They showed traffic was the easiest thing in the world to get. Within a couple of years they went from very little to millions of hits per day. And sign ups went the other way. All without spending a fortune to get traffic. Traffic doesn't - sign ups!!!!
It suddenly became obvious the more free content given out the less sign ups got. It only worked if you could keep ahead in the sign ups race and that was tough and expensive. Now it's prohibitive in cost to try to stay on top. The Tubes do it for peanuts.
The adult Net has to change. Customers have to be God, King and Queen to keep them. Sites HAVE to compete with Tubes. It's no good throwing up another site full of content that's the same as 100 other sites, even if it is exclusive it's still the same old stuff. And it's to be found in bucket loads for free.
The reason why few customers retain today is so fucking obvious it's a joke. The content isn't fucking good enough to keep him for another month. Who expects a member to stay to see more of the same cheap content that's already on the site? No matter how much you add, if just with another girl going through the same motions as the girls already on the site, would you stay?
All sites have suffered because of Tubes, the ones giving their members a bit more have suffered less and those giving the customer a lot more have suffered less still. And by a bit more I don't mean numbers.
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