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Originally Posted by JA$ON
The part of the industry thats dying are the mediocre pay sites filled with old, plain, bulk purchase content. And that made up a BIG % of the total sites out there. You can set up a pay site, affiliate program and fill it with Junk for a few thousand dollars. As you know, to do it with HQ, custom content is not a cheap proposition.
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That sounds good, but I don't think that's entirely true. I think Met, X-Art, Brazzers still make big sales still, yes.
I think there are also big sites with great original content that are doing bad, and I think that's because of the amount of free content out there. I don't agree that there is a shortage of quality content, I think there's actually more exclusive, good quality content on the web than ever, catering to all fetishes. It's a bit more spread out now, and more of it is amateur production, and direct clip sales. Take a look at Clips4Sale, there are many microniches thriving there. Ok, maybe there were more big budget original sites popping up in the Bang Bus era, but there are still many nice paysites with original and very high quality content.
People whining about how good and original 80s and 90s porn were... come on. They were not, they were cheesy. I threw out my old DVDs. :P Niche and microniche websites today and the last 10 years have done better than ever to squeeze everything out of an idea, niche, fantasy, or fetish. But originality is often not enough to be truly successful.
There are still sites filled with junk old scenes making big time sales I think. Because they have very appealing free tours making them look a lot better than they really are, multiple pre-checked cross sales setup with other similar sites, traffic networks to pump them, big PPS for affiliates because they do lots of upsells and cross-sells, and a huge affiliate base promoting them - often with unconventional methods that you praise, possibly mailers/chatters too.