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Originally Posted by Doug of Montreal
And here's a brief list of the "moronic" companies offering fantastic quality videos:
21 Sextury Cash
Blazing Bucks
DDF Cash
FTV Cash
Hard Glam Cash
HDV Bucks
Jugg Cash
Met Art Money
Mofos Cash
Nasty Dollars
Naughty America
OT Cash
Payserve
Twistys Cash
Ztod
And a lot of these "morons" are encoding 10k+. I'd argue that these are some of the most experienced companies online. You don't think they know what they're doing??  |
Actually.. I know for a fact some of those companies don't know what they're doing by encoding to really high bit rates. They're just doing it because they "think" it should be done and because they see others doing it or because their video guys says it would be cool to do it...
There's a lot of reasons that conversion rates, retention etc has dropped over the last few years and one of them is because companies have moved to catering to those with high end systems instead of going after the mass consumer. This is just another example of that. The US has been the prime market for everyone. But with the shit that's gone down with credit over the last few years, there's just not as many buying porn or that can afford the internet connections or computer systems to actually buy it. Emerging markets is where the future will be and those guys just won't have the systems to play a lot of the vids.
I look at it this way... Porn is about volume. Youtube is a volume video provider. They cater the masses as porn should. They don't encode videos to high bit rates so that practically anyone can watch the vids. The rise of the tube site should prove this point to anyone. Porn surfers don't really give a shit about high quality porn. They want to be able to view a lot of it to find just the right ones to get themselves off. A very small percentage of the surfers care about quality so why put so much time, money and effort into catering to them... Deliver to the masses and everyone will make a lot more money again.