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Originally Posted by signupdamnit
No I'm just the type of guy who calls bullshit when I see it. You speak of "the same business model from 6-10 years ago" and I notice six years ago is 2007. That coincides almost exactly with the rise of piracy by tubes. What destroyed that business model wasn't technology or marketing genius. It was piracy and theft. And the business model isn't destroyed it's just on the severe decline because of industry idiocy.
You have a point about trying to work with the tubes to keep content up which still has a chance of getting a sale versus pirated full scenes. I'll give you that. But this belief that you will convert one paysite sale for every 5,000 video views on a tube loaded with full scenes by giving away 1,200 10min+ HD clips is ridiculous. You can come up with all the evidence you like but to me it's like someone pulling out an alleged photo of a pink elephant and then telling me I'm ignorant because I don't believe pink elephants are real. My common sense and experience overrides your "evidence". It's not as you present it to be.
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Originally Posted by signupdamnit
It's all very simple and fundamental to business theory. There exists a point of maximization.
Distributing free content leads to more potential customers being exposed to your product.
But as you distribute for free more of the very same product which you are trying to sell you also reduce the tendency for a given potential customer to buy.
On one extreme no buys because they don't know you exist. On the other extreme everyone knows about you but no one buys because they can get it all for free.
There is a point where things balance for maximum profits.
This concept is hardly revolutionary or difficult to grasp.
It's common sense to realize "Just keep posting 12 minute HD videos by the thousands forever" is eventually going to cross the maximization point. What that means is REDUCED earnings. OTOH if you're the tube it's fucking great if people post thousands of 12 minute videos. You can't lose (at least until your traffic becomes worthless). You're not paying for the content and you're not losing sales. The people posting the content are.
That's all I have to say on it. Listen to me or don't people. Your call.  |
I actually agree with you 100%, there will be a maximum point of how many 12 min HD videos you have online in 1 tube at any time, and as soon as the stats tell me its time, we will start removing our under performing clips to make room for the new material. Also, porn does become stale so this is also valid. But one important fact, a video submitted to the tubes gets 85% of its lifetime views in the first 36 hours, so the longtail effect is certainly there, but you do have a very valid point about what is the maximisation point. I'm listening to you for sure.