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Originally Posted by charlie g
Paul, I have a ton of respect for your work and knowledge. I have lost many litres of bodily fluid admiring your abilities. But free porn was absolutely inevitable. As you stated above, brick and mortar stores had to bring the people in. If they could have posted newspaper adverts with free porn you can bet your ass there would have been a ton of it. No eyes means no sales.
Fast forward to the internet, no clicks mean no sales. If your site has a high bounce rate you are going to do what you must to get the viewers' attention. So in a way, the internet marketers are right- traffic is king.
You are also right in that to convert the traffic, given the state of porn, it must be of quality or at least compelling. But the future of selling porn memberships is probably dead as we know it. Without a certain level of interactiveness no one will pay for porn.
Keep an eye on our friend nathen/fabian to see what he does. I would think a clone or acquisition of a MFC and dating (maybe what's left of FFN after they go belly up) is in the very near future for that network. I can't see him content sharing that pie.
Porn will be used as a value added service, like a condiment to get you in the mood to talk to a "real woman". There will still be a market for producers of pornography... but the salad days are gone forever.
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Free porn was inevitable, but not in the quantities we have today. Yes you can give away samples. Like the girl in the supermarket giving out biscuits. What you don't do is give away so many biscuits there's no need to buy. Which we did.
Today free porn can't be stopped. The pirated stuff will be everywhere soon. In the early days it could of been stopped. And those online would of made so much money they wouldn't care. Robbie wouldn't be bitching about pirated porn. He'd be surfing it from his yacht in the Bahamas. Moored right next to Roald's.
Paying affiliates 10% max, not giving them tons of free content, tools, hosting, etc. Or doing all the affiliate work in house.
I suggested that on another board and another poster replied "They couldn't afford TGPs without support and big payout." Imagine that, an Adult Internet without 1,000s of TGP sites with millions of galleries. We would of ground to a halt.
But that's the thinking of online porn. They see affiliates as helping sales. I see them giving away free content to take away sales.
Imagine a business where affiliates can't afford to be the barrier between the surfer and the supplier. I can think creatively enough to imagine how it would work. The idea that men wouldn't come looking fr porn is silly and illustrates an ignorance of the porn business.