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Originally Posted by Voodoo
Porn is not a utility. It's a luxury item. It's the first to go and first to come back. Free porn has been around since the dawn of the internet... You know, back in the BBS days? In fact, the free porn model has been around LONGER than the paid model. Don't think for a second that it's killing the industry. It INVENTED the industry!
Those of you who are sitting around sulking about the Good Old Days obviously haven't been inventing anything new that makes money or testing new markets. Good luck with that venture!
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Yes this is a recession. Offline porn used to be recession proof, because it's a cheap bit of relief. Now it's a free relief so no need to pay for it.
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Originally Posted by Barefootsies
Will you ever return to the golden age of million dollar affiliates...
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Then it will be further fucked. Traffic follows content, make it free and it will go there. Pay out millions to make loads more free.
Also for some doing it in house is cheaper. 900+ employees. How much traffic does that generate?
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Originally Posted by Vjo
But yeah in general the vast majority of this biz is fucked in the ass.
YOUR shit no longer sells cause it is free on a TON of RIP sites.
So YEAH in general the affil has nothing to promote in adult but "no sell" SHIT that is priced at $12.99 for 1000 sites on RIP sites instead of $29.99 for YOUR few shit sites.
Which were mostly shit to begin with. The very best sites still sell in adult but that is MAYBE 10 % and they are also dieing FAST unless they have something that cant be given away easily.
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Blaming piracy is a red herring. These guys downloading pirated site would just get their porn fix from Pornhub if there was no piracy.
Downloading 1000 or even 100 sites is enough porn for a life time. Pornhub makes the $12.99 a pointless spend. Unless you have to have HD.
Also figure this in. For $30 a moral member he can download a years supply of porn from one site, $30 a year?????
With hindsight we can all see how this business was fucked. Crap product, over priced product, customer experience secondary to affiliate experience, shady practices and tons and tons of free porn in any guise being given away every day.
Even today few have the money of the brains to really think like businessmen. There are a lot of DVD companies with an excellent unique product who are struggling. Yet sites continue to churn out the same cheap repetitive shit product day after day. When they could walk into one of these companies, put the money on the table and buy them out. But that needs brains and investment money. MW are starting to do it more than you think.