This industry is so lacking in original ideas and marketing strategies its amazing. Thats surprising with how forward thinking the adult industry is regrading technology.
Content wise its a joke. I've seen threads where people rip Hollywood for coming out with absolute shit, all while posting under a banner ad for policemen.net and bigsausagepizza. Are you joking? Good thing the mainstream press doesnt pay too close attention to porn otherwise they would stop trashing the unoriginality that is reality tv and transfer their ire to us. Its also no surprise that companies that do have an original bone in their bodies, Bang Bros, Nasty dollars, StreamRay all lead the pack and make major coin. But there comes a time when even those companies need to stop counting the $$ enough to be innovative. Real companies never stop striving, never stop re-inventing themselves, never stop staying ahead of the curve. im so tired of hearing a product anouncement from a new company portraying themselves as the new Microsoft of our industry with tons of fresh ideas and new concepts that will make us all rich and transform the way we do business. Then its released and it, of course, has "Cash" somehwere in their affiliate program title and a pic of $$ on their webpage and "high converting niche sites" that include an anal, cum, teen, and reality site. If you are just riding on the coattails of those before you and want to make a quick buck capatilizing on the leftovers thats fine, more power to ya, just fucking say so. At least it would be refreshing honesty.
"I have zero originality and talked some investers into giving us some cash but dont want to fuck it up by taking a chance so im going to throw some absolute shit at the wall, and call it 'fresh' and 'new' and 'hot' and everybody will know its not 'fresh', 'new', nor 'hot' but im going to pay $40 pps so they will all chime in and say its 'fresh', 'new', and 'hot', then im going to sit back and hopefully make a living and relive my frat house youth"
And us affiliates are no better. As George costanza would say about toilet paper, it never changes, always the same. Same with TGP's, free sites, link lists, hubs, galleries. All with trades, bought traffic. just once it would be nice to look at something and say, "wow, this person really has it together, thats fresh, nice new idea. Great way to market that" Then of course, as in any industry it would be copied to death but at least it would change things up.
This industry and the people behind are is its own worst enemy and eventually, if we dont come up with new ideas, it will bite us in the ass. you can already see it happening. I used to be in retail and the mantra was the worst thing you could do was lower your price to get new business, becuase if all you can do to grow is sacrafice your margins your eventually fucked. same with adult and we are already seeing it. If the only new ideas that we have our price (higher pps, lower monthly rates) and more hard core eventually you cant drop it any lower and you cant put anything harder out there.
If anybody is or knows of a program or affiliate doing something original please discuss and let us know, maybe im wrong. (also because i dont have an original bone in my body and need to copy it to afford my habits
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