Barry. You're so funny.
When I first came and made my presence to online porn, I was told surfers didn't want my glossy magazine style porn. By a lot by people who couldn't produce anything decent. Telling me there bad porn was what the surfer wanted. They didn't last long and most have gone.
Then people were telling me online porn was the future of the porn business. Now people are telling me paysites have run their course and it's time to adapt. Usually to giving away more free porn to sell ads to people who will become obsolete as others put up their type of adult for free, in increasing numbers.
The numbers of people leaving are far above those joining. Newbies are unlikely to bring anything of worth to this industry.
People told me online made far more than offline ever did. Maybe for a few months as off line declined. Still doubt if online porn ever took more than offline
retail. Those telling me how little offline took quoted the production companies accounts. Which has nothing to do with the real offline businesses revenue.
Yes E Books have damaged the old book model and made it harder for writers. But when 100s of people decide to give away 10,000s of
new books
each. Then Amazon will lose book sales. They have lots of things to sell, online porn has 3. Recorded porn, live porn and Dating. Dating makes sense to give it away for free, move away from Adult and get advertisers like E bay, Amazon, Coke, etc. Lot more money than from AFF.
However, tube sites that are licensing content for use now as well as sponsor and content producer/licensee tube sites are here to stay -- deal with it and learn how to profit by it or move on ...
Poppycock. Tubes with DMCA infringing content can be sued after the legal notices are served. But it's expensive and few online have the balls to take that one on, still it can just come down for a few days. Then a mystery man in some hole will re-upload the scene so it's back up again. Paysite sales are falling, whether you're a one man band or Manwin. The fall in sales will eventually hit everyone. Just takes a bit of time.
Then who will provide the licensed content and will those sites keep feeding Tubes, so they can sell ads to dating companies?
How many Tubes can afford to license enough new content a day to keep the traffic happy. Will advertisers chip in for the cost of buying content. Or will the mystery men just increase?
Yes think long term and think hard. AND don't assume the model you ride today will be the same one you ride this time next year.
And never assume in a market that's changing fast, the next move might not just be the same one Pimproll did. Big Sponsors turning a big site into a free Tube.
There's one think the "Freemium" business model has to have to survive. Buyers and without that, free doesn't work.
Never forget, adult is stuck in it's own little corner. It's pot of advertisers are limited. Itself and maybe betting. If betting will advertise in adult sites and it works. Then no worries. If not.
