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Originally Posted by Robbie
Yes Paul...but it is the first time in all of history that porn has been accessible to everyone. And no, I'm not talking about "free" porn. I mean that for the first time in history...anybody with an internet connection could buy a membership and view hardcore porn.
That was not so easy before. Trust me. I've traveled all over the U.S. in bands throughout the 1980's and 1990's and 2000's. Most small towns don't even allow (by law) adult bookstores. And the few that do? It's a tricky thing trying to go there and hoping that none of your neighbors saw you.
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Agreed.
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And then what if your thing is fat girls? Or trannies? Or you're in a redneck town but you like black girls? Or you like to watch gay porn? Then you had to go through the embarrassment of picking up that video or magazine and walking to a counter and looking another person in the eye while you bought it.
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All those niches were available. Yes the Internet meant it could be viewed a lot easier.
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And as far as giving stuff away...As a guy who made a whole lot of money with my tgp's...I think we hit a "sweet spot" back around 1998 and it extended all the way up to 2008 and was ruined when tube sites started running full stolen scenes and bit torrent and file sharing sites exploded stealing full members areas.
During that period of around 10 years...galleries were selling memberships like hotcakes. I was making so much money that I honestly couldn't spend it fast enough. And that's no lie.
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As this part cover the same subject here's my answer. You saw a massive increase. Other parts of porn saw a massive decrease. A lot of those buying magazines and videos switched over to the Internet. Many switched to viewing it for free. The stats prove that. Everyone quotes banner clicks to joins. What about gallery views to sales?
How many people were looking at a gallery and just downloading it and going to the next? Too little and it didn't work, too much and it didn't work, naming all the images or clips in sequence didn't work as well as numbering them out of sequence and dumping them onto a site.
1,000 gallery views to 1 join isn't selling like hotcakes. Often some galleries didn't even do 1-1,000 on banner clicks. But it worked because of the migration of buyers from mainstream porn to the online porn. Then the Tubes turned 1-1,000 into a dream for old timers.
Bus as plsureking points out no one has any new ideas how to turn the tide. All they can do is put out more free content to get ever worsening ratios. It's been going on for a decade now as you point out.