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Originally Posted by Robbie
A lot of people DID say that back in the 1990's and early 2000's. And a lot of those same people ended up dead broke and out of the game.
And a LOT of the old school guys used to look down their noses at me and everyone else in online porn during the 1990's and thought it was beneath them and they didn't need to try and sell porn online. A few years later they were OUT of the game and we were making great money.
Today? Yeah, I think it's pretty obvious that we are fucked.
But there is/was a "sweet spot" for giving away SAMPLES of porn on our TGP's back a few years ago that undoubtedly sold more porn than EVER in history.
It was once that line was crossed by idiots who as you said...could NOT sell porn because they were too stupid...well, that's when we ended up where we are now.
IF the last three years had not happened, and IF the first time that Pornhub stole a vid somebody had beat the shit out of them...Well, everything would be different.
But I can spit in one hand and wish in the other too...guess which one will fill up first?
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The problem is once the system was set and the amount of funding there was for the free sector. It was inevitable it would grow and grow and then the balance would tip.
Your idea that it sold more than ever is wrong. The World Wide market for porn was immense. If they couldn't get hardcore videos, they could get Playboy mags.
Still it's over, as you say it's long gone. I'm fortunate that I was able to get in during the days when I could sell a single one hour tape of a girl doing three solo scenes, a 1,000 times at $40 a pop. Thankful I didn't blow all the money on loose women and travel.
Nothing was going to stop Tubes like Pornhub. No one would of beat the shit out of them.The 2257 law was badly enforced, DMCA written for a time when Tubes were even thought of and the funding for them to run and be profitable was the same funding you made millions from.
The only thing this industry could of done was to pay affiliates their real worth. 10% max for the good ones and little to no tools. A few samples. When the idiots tried to up the game, the sane could of dropped the prices and isolate them.
But we decided getting people to look at porn was hard and the only way to get enough so a few would buy, was to give it away for free and pay affiliates a fortune while providing them all the tools.
Do you know the number of hits a TGP got for every 1 person who went to the tour and then for every 1 person who bought? I had a rough idea of ours and the figures were mind blowing. It was obvious even then the losses were huge. You don't become the biggest supplier of porn EVER while sustaining that loss of sales.
Think retail shops world wide, selling everything for a Playboy mag to a Private video, rental, phone sex, cable, etc. That was the problem the self delusion of online porn.
It's over and done. If online ever did sell more than offline. It's because they passed each other. One on the way up and the other on the way down.
Offline had 50 great years. Online didn't have 15. Talking great years, not in business.
Offline created legends, multi millionaires the size that online will never get to. Hefner, Flynt, Raymond, Gold, Sullivan and more. We have Fabian.
Damian will tell us they made their money in other things. The man is clueless. They made so much money in porn they could diversify. But when an industry employs marketing men of his level. Well that says it all.