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Originally Posted by Tempest
You're not grasping a simple concept... Tube sites.. Free porn sites.. ARE NOT SELLING A PORN PRODUCT.. That's NOT their product.. 95% of the WMs out there do not own a paysite.. they do not sell a product.. They give away one thing to make money with something else.. They give away free porn in order to make advertising revenue.. It just so happens that, up until recently, the advertising revenue primarily came from the same product they were giving away.
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Very good point. They don't give a fuck at the moment if paysites decline. The problem with your thinking is it's very short term, maybe that's how it is now. Make sure you can pay the bills this week and fuck the week after. Never used to be like that.
They are industry people though. So still industry people to blame.
The interesting thing for most will be, if paysites carry on falling. Will free content for people running Tubes will dry up. Piracy doesn't have a real problem. The big Tubes who could afford to but content, don't have a problem. They have all the content they need and can buy more from failing websites.
Will the advertisers pay more for advertising to pay for legit content on Tubes?
Now here's another problem. As the value of the free porn falls, how many sites will open Tubes turning their paysites into Tube?
People of my size don't really have enough.
Will couple of similar got together and pooled resources? Plus I'm sure they can rely on a few "users" to upload. So the growth in Tubes is an option. Same advertising revenue spread thinner.
Free doesn't creates buyers, it takes buyers from others. So more people competing for the same buyers traffic, not free loaders traffic. Only a minute % of those looking at Tubes buy.
Can dating and webcam support the costs of the Tubes with their own content?
Will the free model kick in further for dating and cam sites?
IF and it's a big if. The support for Tubes falls, will customers have to come back to buying? Or will the free model slim itself down to a slimmer model?
One thing is for sure, no one knows. And don't commit yourself to long term debts. That's the best long term thinking people in porn can do today. Clear the debts and save hard.