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Originally Posted by Paul Markham
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.
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I disagree. It was selling like hotcakes. I was literally watching sales happen every couple of seconds. We had a joke in my offices that every time we blinked our eyes we made more money.
I don't think it was a "migration of buyers from mainstream porn to online porn". I think it was a GIANT increase in people able to buy porn at all. They couldn't "migrate" because they had never had the opportunity to buy porn before.
I was one of those guys. Had a couple of old vcr tapes and 10 year old magazines. I literally had no place to get anything else. And even if I did the stigma of going to an adult bookstore was pretty high.
Literally the market exploded in numbers of customers. More than was ever available before.
The years right before piracy were incredibly profitable times. I believe...no, I KNOW we were at that "sweet spot" with galleries of images and videos. We were "training" young guys to want to get behind the "velvet rope" and get a membership. There was only so much time that they were satisfied with 20 second clips and shitty resized pics in a gallery.
I know that you have some contrary thoughts to that. But all I can say is...I bow down to you as a shooter. I am better at selling porn. And I LIVED it, just as you lived your experience and gained knowledge and wisdom.
Anyway...one thing is for sure: Until everyone learns to protect their content, and also learn to viral market...they are screwed. Thieves like Fabian will continue to do what he is doing.
What was it he told us a few months ago when he popped up from nowhere as the new "owner" of "Manwin"?
Oh yeah...he told us to give him some time and we would see the changes he was going to make.
So far? He hoodwinked PinkVisual and FSC into climbing into bed with him. Piracy is still FULL STEAM AHEAD on all the Manwin tubes. And now his ad company is running ads all over The Pirate Bay.
Nice!