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Originally Posted by vvvvv
When I first got started in adult I tried posting pics of little April to newsgroups with my own URL on the pics. I noticed 100 or more people a day typed in my unpublished URL. So I forwarded that traffic to her site with my affiliate code. It converted at 1:20 and they instantly hit me up to see how I was sending the sign ups. Then they instantly closed my account for posting to newsgroups.
All of my content was nonnude. There were plenty of tgp's actually giving away her nice fhg content. They couldn't wrap their thick heads around the fact that newsgroups could be used to make money.
I posted here at gfy asking if any other sponsors would want to try newsgroups and several did. We made a killing.
Sponsors work with tube site owners because they bring them lots of memberships. Not to mention plenty of affiliate programs own tube sites of their own that push their all access pass as a premium option.
So yeah. Adapt or die.
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There is a big difference between giving out some photos and giving out full scene movies though. If you fail to take into account that by giving out increasing amounts of your product you are cannibalizing potential sales then eventually you will be stuck with diminishing returns and scratching your head wondering where all the sales went. I've seen it happen here over the course of a few years. It goes something like this.
1. Sponsor is doing great. Has many affiliates.
2. Tubes rise, overall sales start dropping, affiliates leaving.
3. Sponsor starts working with tubes.
4. Sponsor starts picking up all sorts of extra sales from the tubes. Thinks "this is great!"
5. Affiliates start leaving more (the biz altogether or the sponsor)
6. Sponsor thinks "fuck those affiliates! I don't need em anyway!"
7. Sponsor shuts down affiliate program or 90% of affiliates leave (no sales anyway)
8. Sponsor ramps up content distribution on tubes
9. Sponsor revenue keeps falling as it's not sustainable, most people don't buy what is free.
10. Sponsor goes out of business (or is sold) with all 10,000 scenes on every tube known to man remaining up.
11. The reps and bros from GFY come up with an excuse for why the sponsor failed other than the tubes and piracy.
12. Add. Rinse. Repeat. Even the bros start falling and the tubes themselves as well start failing.
In summary all the industry is doing is cannibalizing potential sales. It doesn't take an MBA to see where this leads. The hope was that instead of selling porn the industry would sell mainstream goods or ads. This was the only hope since the paysites were being made worthless by all the free content