It just amazes me that so many affiliate programs have old school tours and shit up still. Also going through my links with my sponsors, it's just a shame that so many people have just stopped updating galleries, etc.
I am also surprised that maybe only 15 percent of sponsors are offering us, the affiliates downloadable flv's. I'm talking about just the files, not embedded with the player, etc. Some of us have our own players we would like to use. Just fyi.
I know that things are shitty, economic wise, scrubs, acts of God and what not, but I think that many program owners have just thrown in the proverbial towel already, but just have not taken that final step of closing their sites. Sometimes sites and programs are like our children. Pretty hard to let go.
I think that as an industry, we have monetized everything that can be monetized. I think the 3D will never get popular, personally, at least from what I've read. I'm talking computer driven 3D, not blue ray media.
Even networks, looking at and linking to all of these other sites, some with blue and green and yellow pics. Not even color corrected. Never even gave the girl a chance to sell herself and make you some $$. Who want's to jerk off to green fucking pics?!? I feel like the program is just subconciously screaming "our content sucks! but we will give you access to 20 other sites that also suck, so you don't feel as guilty when you join us". It's fucking depressing.
On the other end, there are actually a good amount of sites that are being launched that really have a fire in their bellies. The front GUI's are so slick that it makes the surfer want to lick the glass. So just my opinion, that the cycle that is online adult continues to respawn, but at a pace that is much slower than in the past. Imho, the ultimate longevity of these websites and concepts will be how much they love what they do and what the concepts mean to them.
And sadly, sponsors will continue the love/hate with affiliates, but they sure won't be giving away Porsche's and shit like they used too through bonus points, drawings and stuff like they used to do. I've only been to a couple of shows and they were both XBIZ Hollywood things. But I doubt they are like they used to be either.
I think some great innovation will someday resurrect this industry online again, but it will never be with the wide eyed excitement that it used to be. When I was in college in '2000 and I found my first foot fetish site, I was like, "I'm never going to a fucking porn store again"! I was buying magazines at the time and just cutting out pics and scenes that I liked with an xacto knife. This shit was custom! I could download what I wanted and fuck the rest. I spent 400 bucks on online porn in 2000. No, our market trusts us as far as they can throw us, and if you fuck up just one time, you've lost them. Social Media and shit have made people lazy. They have no patience for load times or video buffering lapses, not even mentioning "circa 1997" web designs. When I was on a 28k modem. I would be happy just to let a video I liked download all night while I was asleep. And when I woke up, It was Christmas Fucking Morning! Smoke a blunt, jerk off to it and kiss that shitty little white modem and my free 750 hour online access AOL CD!
They will join your paysites and cancel and hour after joining so they don't catch the recurring fees. If the dazzle on your backend does not match with wonderment your pimping on your front end. Just like a disgruntled customer, they will rip your ass from one forum to another. I am very respected in my fetish community and can honestly say that having an open door as a producer and surfing my forums that are key to my niche, putting myself out there for my community has saved my ass as far as being able to grow my paysite concepts and have the time to fuck around as an Adult Directory Network with Digitaldivasonline. It's fun, I'm not filthy rich, but blessed.
I do feel pretty fucking depressed though to go through affilite programs looking for new content though and seeing these one formidable programs, just a slowly dying shell of themselves. This is more of an observation than anything, however, your feedback on the state of the affiliate or adult program model may help others. Just sayin'... It takes a village, fuckers!
