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Originally Posted by Tempest
Are you talking the reality of history or your wishfull thinking... You asked about what hurt SELLING PORN ONLINE.. Keep your topics straight.
How about we actually talk about reality instead of some fantasy dream.
The internet porn biz came about because of guys making scanned images freely available on websites, prior to that newsgroups and old style BBSs.. From there someone offered to buy a banner spot for something on a site and the biz was born. Paysites came AFTER free porn and traffic.
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So free porn hurt the selling of porn online. So the continual building of free increased the harm. Yes people were already online and people started to sell them porn online. As connections grew, traffic grew.
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Again.. You asked about what hurt selling porn online... The future is unwritten and the same can be said of every business model that sells advertising space. As long as sites like tubes have the traffic, there will be someone willing to buy that traffic whether it's dating sites, cams, sex toys, penis pills or whatever. It does not matter one bit if every porn paysite out there disappeared tomorrow because there will be something that porn surfers will be willing to buy and thus can be advertised on the traffic sites. Yes, demand for buying advertising on those sites can and will diminish over time as more and more porn membership companies die. But everything is cyclic and eventually things will come back around again but not for many years to come.
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Agreed. The factor you don't tell us is the selling price of adverts and the costs of running the Tubes. When Dating sites move to a Free Model, don't think it can't happen, the number of advertisers and/or the price they can afford to pay will fall. Then what?
The value of traffic is determined by the value of it's spending and cost of getting the traffic.
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As I said.. The industry is no longer about selling porn memberships. It's about generating traffic and selling advertising space. The reality though is that the online biz has really always been about traffic. It's just that because affiliates were getting paid a commission on paysite memberships that things weren't really black and white. But in effect, the porn membership companies were paying affiliates for advertising.. For their traffic... The smart guys figured out early that their business was about traffic generation, not about making pretty sites and thus they threw as much porn at the surfer as they could in order to generate that traffic.
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Total rubbish. Traffic doesn't spend money to be traffic. Without sales there's no money. Traffic doesn't in itself generate money. Sales do that. If the only way you can get sales is to throw more and more traffic at it. You had best hope some of that traffic buy.
They gave the consumer as much of the product free to generate sales.
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Seriously dude.. What products do google, facebook etc sell? None. They sell advertising space to those that have products to sell. I understand it's a difficult concept to grasp but surely you should be cluing in by now.
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You are clearly not that clever. Google and FB do not give away the product they sell. In the same way online porn does. Google is a search engine, they don't sell search engines.
Facebook is a social network, they don't sell Social networks.
I'm sure you understand the concept. They give away one thing for free to sell another. The search engine or social is free, if you want a top spot or little ad, you pay.
Do web cams give away free 1-1 shows to get traffic?
Do Penis pills companies give away as many penis pills as they can to sell them?
Do sex toys companies give away all the vibrators to sell vibrators?
Now you give away free recorded porn to sell other products. Do you own the content you use as a lure. Do the dating sites, cams, sex toys, penis pills advertisers give you the free porn to get surfers to sell adverts?
If the answer is yes, then fine. You're running a legit operation. If you pirate or use free paysite content as an affiliate to sell advertising space. You had better pray those paysites stay in business. Or you will have to buy content to get costly traffic. Yes the content is why the traffic comes. If you can afford to buy it, you're fine. If you can't and it disappears. You will have to buy the King of online porn to get the queen, free traffic.
