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Originally Posted by AdultKing
Good question, I'll take that one on notice.
Generally though, perhaps a look at how professional porn production, billing, ad networks and affiliates operate. How the shift in business models has occurred over 25 or so years.
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25 years ago no one bothered about how billing, ad networks and affiliates operated. It was different world. Porn production was everything because a good product ensured a loyal audience. Producers, publishers and distributors knew this and the industry reacted accordingly. Newbie porn people had to produce a product that would sell month after month because last months hit the spot.
Since the beginning of online porn this thinking has increasingly taken a back seat by many. Everyone was increasingly ruled by getting a one time hit from surfers. With less concern about keeping them.
The exceptions to this were the sites who concentrated on producing a product better than the rest. However with the number of sites competing for traffic it resulted in smaller loyal audiences and production budgets. For every offline title had 100 titles, online had 1,000s. This is without affiliate sites.
Today one company dominates the porn and affiliates are slowly being forced out. The number who rely on porn to make a living has been reduced to a fraction of past years. Leaving porn production, billing and ad networks. Well even those are squeezed, production is a fraction of the past, ad networks are owned by a few and billing is less of a problem if it goes through a few companies.
Today giving away porn to generate ad clicks dominates and it's going to grow. Few buy porn for a 20 minute jerk off once or twice a week when so much is available for free. Even once or twice a day, why pay when it's available for free? Tomorrow that will grow. So will the free tubes ever run out of new material? Well that depends on many things. Will ad clicks ever fund the production of enough porn to satisfy hungry viewers expecting 10-20 new scenes a day?
Today we recommend sites like manyvids, clips4sale, Pornhub Premium, xHamster Premium etc. For newbies to make money. Whether that money will cover production costs is very debatable.