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Originally Posted by kazbalah
My 2 cents - you wont like.. but you should have seen this coming 15 YEARS ago.
Think about it, in the first days of adult sites i heard of stories of people putting up 50 picture sets and making a paysite out of that - they made 60,000$ a month.
Why - because their was no porn to be found on the net at that time, so people had to pay for it.
And now, we dont just have tube sites, we have the millions of blogs, rapidshare and mega upload giving away videos and WHOLE paysites for free, tgps, mgps - if you cant find free porn your a fucking idiot.
So porn everywhere on the internet = shit sales.
The more free content, the less sales. simple.
And to conclude my point, here is the future of porn...
No paysite memberships, porn will only be used as a way to attract surfers to a website, to make money on paid ads like adbrite or whatever... bank it.. thats where we heading ;)
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Spot on. The flood of free porn really got going once the Internet took off. Until then it was a minor part of the business. Those working on the adult Internet chuckled that it was harming the other parts of the porn business. Now the smile has been wiped off their faces.
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Originally Posted by TheDoc
To outsell the tube, you have to sell a better product than the tube... once you do that, the game changes.
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100% spot on.
But how many sponsors do you see doing a better product?
Some have great videos, but it's still only videos. Sponsors need to think beyond "A place to get videos" today.
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This is true but with one caveat. If the other guy can simply steal your higher quality product and still offer it for free, having better quality products does you no good. If you read my posts in this topic, that is what I've been saying over and over. Few will pay for your kobe beef if some asshole set up a shop next to you and is giving it away free.
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Once you have a better product it's worth protecting. If all you have is "A girl on a sofa" type content it's not worth protecting because Tubes have it in bucket loads. The surfer on a Tube won't jerk off to yours. He'll jerk off to someone elses.
But why should a better product be just something that can be downloaded? Live shows, live chat, interaction with models, can all raise the standard of a porn membership.
Or we just carry on doing as we have done and watch the ship continue to sink.