What is your biggest business struggle right now?

Yeah, brainfart on the name of the premium site but the point is that they function off their own freemium traffic model, don't rely on tubes to grow their audience, and have a very loyal brand following.

You and I both agree that the tube traffic value is declining so continuing to chase that dollar will only prove more and more futile. If you have (x) number of sites that rely on that traffic then what next?

imho, Shap came out with a Penthouse style brand that successfully used online when Penthouse stumbled online, even though arguably Penthouse had a tremendous head start. His genius was to sell at the top too, but could he pull that off again given today's market? Maybe, but only because he is smart and adaptive, not because he tries to do what he did then.

JT, same thing, he had a massive advantage to seeing what worked on Youporn and he capitalized by creating content that took advantage of that inside knowledge, and he sold out too at the right time. He also created an identifiable brand. Brazzers, the same, Fabian knew exactly what kind of site would sell because he saw all the NATS stats and Brazzers created content that fit the bill.

Still, the user behavior has changed since then so all of them would have to re-think and adapt as well if they came into the market today. They are all very intelligent so I am sure they would figure it out but look at all the programs that died out because they couldn't figure out the flux and got flummoxed trying, crushed by the weight of their hubris...

I didn't sell anything ;)

I didn't sell anything ;)

Oh ok, sorry. I thought you were out of the business tho?

No worries
I'm out of the monetisation side of the business and the running of the sites. Simply no one better than MG at doing that. But my team and I are in full creative control of the content and editing. We also have a commitment to launch new sites, that's what get my whole team excited. And before you ask, I have not regretted a single second and wake up every day with the same feeling that if the contract was put in front of me again, I'd sign it every single time.

If you'd like any feedback feel free to drop me an email.

No worries
I'm out of the monetisation side of the business and the running of the sites. Simply no one better than MG at doing that. But my team and I are in full creative control of the content and editing. We also have a commitment to launch new sites, that's what get my whole team excited. And before you ask, I have not regretted a single second and wake up every day with the same feeling that if the contract was put in front of me again, I'd sign it every single time.

Can you at least let us use cloud.xxx for our tube uploading? Or was that expressly forbidden in the contract?
When you were announcing the development of cloud.xxx you made it sound like it was your way of giving back to the content producers' community, and you were really not going to gain anything out of it personally. Yet when you signed the deal with mindgeek, you simply stated that cloud.xxx no longer made sense for your business and thus it would be shut down?!?

Can you at least let us use cloud.xxx for our tube uploading? Or was that expressly forbidden in the contract?
When you were announcing the development of cloud.xxx you made it sound like it was your way of giving back to the content producers' community, and you were really not going to gain anything out of it personally.

Thanks Shap, which email?

Good employees low cost. Regardless of how you feel about that, its hard to have business lines where you could grow them from 5k/m to something real if you had a dedicated FTC but be unable to pay someone to profitably start them.

Payment laws. How is there no lossless international exchange in 2015?