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Originally Posted by Love Sex
Its a lot easier to shoot porn these days.
buy camera, pay model, shoot video, edit and upload or sell.
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Why do you say that?
In the old days all we did was buy equipment, find model, book her, shoot her and sell it. No editing or uploading involved.
The biggest difference is digital. If they can't set the exposure right for stills, they're morons. Video was very much point and shoot. Stills film cameras were not expensive, film was a bit but $10 to $15 a roll isn't breaking the bank. Video cameras if you weren't stepping up to Beta weren't expensive.
So where is it easier today?
You mean it was harder to sell it back in the old days.
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Originally Posted by AVN Theo
Paul, novelties are not porn
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Still part of the porn business. Online porn could of made far more in that field as well.
Are you saying the $200 million Ann Summers made was mainly sex toys and lingerie?
Remember when Times Square had porn shops on, run by the Mafia. Can you imagine what those shops made?
That's the problem with online porn, it has a very narrow perspective. Other than the ability for small micro niches to have a better outlet for their porn, online porn is just a delivery platform for porn. It has rarely really done anything ground breaking.
Paysite = Videos like DVD.
Cams = Pone sex and chatting with girls. Yes now you can see the girl.
Dating = Lonely hearts club.
Just adaptations of offline.
The problem is this obsession with traffic, the belief porn is hard to sell and the porn level of many people in online porn.
Traffic to porn is about the easiest thing to get. Selling it isn't that hard, when you have a method of delivery that goes world wide and into places where hardcore porn is banned, selling it is easy. People not understanding this is a shame and led us to where we are today. We always thought porn was hard to sell, maybe because those online were often never buyers? Heard the phrase so many time in the early days of "Why do they buy porn when there's so much for free?"
So we decided to go from a few million random images for free to God knows how much free porn is out there today.
We never grew the product as much as it was possible to do with an online distribution. We kept the level of the product to it's lowest possible price and concentrated on throwing expensive traffic at it. By giving it away.
We taught customers not to buy. Now the amount of traffic required to get a single sign up is a damning indictment on online porn.