Thommy's entire philosophy is based on the new surfers coming to consume free porn will buy other porn and a few mainstream products but paysite porn. Which is bullshit.
We all know porn consumption is addictive, who wouldn't pay $30 to get 100, or even 500 porn clips. Downloading 500 in 30 days isn't impossible with a good connection, it's 17 a day.
We all know the best traffic is from people prepared to spend money online.
We all know the conversion rates on Tube videos is very low.
We all know the conversion on TGP was better by a factor of 10/20, because you had to buy if you wanted the full video.
But Thommy disputes that saying because if it's not free people will not buy porn and buy something else.
In 2006 there was still a thriving offline porn industry, we were selling to around 100 magazines. God knows how many porn DVD companies there were and a healthy cable market. Porn tubes killed off most of that.
Online there were 10,000s of sites, buying and producing content, 10,000s of affiliates all earning all or most of their money in porn, loads of content producers, designers, programmers, etc. Mostly gone now.
If I had started a similar thread back in 2005 there would have been loads of programs telling potential affiliates their product was the way to make money and telling them how to do it, affiliates eager to soak up the info. All we get now is "I looked around, saw what was making money, and copied it." As if seeing what is making money is a great secret.
I come back to my original point the extra traffic means nothing. Because we all know extra traffic means extra potential buyers. If it's not given to them for free then they will buy.