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Originally posted by charly
I've always believed that porn is addictive, not like heroin, and the more you see the more you want.
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Don't fear TGPs they may create more buyers than they steal.
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charly, I think you are wrong. Go look at gambling biz. Gambling is very addictive. But gambling biz as whole doesn't make most of it's profits from those who came out of the game in just their panties. Gambling biz makes it's money mostly from ordinary people who just want to relax a bit.
I think the same might be with the porn, but it is already not and it will not be ever because of all free stuff lying all over the net.
Instead of making money from ordinary guys who just want to jerk off a bit once per month we have to make money from porn addicts. Because all the casuals can find pretty big amount of free stuff which is enough for them to satisfy their humble taste. And only addicts and perverts pay for porn.
Addicts and perverts ARE NOT a majority. They are just a small % of all surfers. I don't know exact numbers, but this is just obvious. It's better to make $10 from each of 20% of surfers then to make $100 from each of 0.01% of surfers... TGP convertion ratio is just a joke, if you think about it cold-eyed. All talks about 1:200-1:500, but all mean clicked traffic which is 1/20-1/200 of surfers who viewed the page. Actually this means that in average only 1 of 40000 surfers who viewed the page is willing to buy what's promoted. Imagine if you were selling adult magazines and you had 40000 visitors who took magazine into hands, opened it, some of them closed it right away, some viewed for a moment, some spoiled it with dirty hands, and some jerked off on it right at your store, but only 1 would pay for it, because he's a pervert who want to get it home and watch it through a hand-glass.... This is just a joke... Indeed this comparison is not completelly correct, but I hope it gives some clue...
The true is that mainstream porn almost ceased to be a good that can be sold and become a mean to advertize and sell other goods like pills, toys and other stuff and yet for some degree a niche porn which is obviously not a commodity. But let's wait and see and niche porn also will be spread all over net for free and then the process completes. Porn will not be a good at all, but only measure to sell other goods. May be there is nothing wrong with it, as long as this pays expences to produce it. But I hardly doubt it would.