The Industry Now (vs. 8 years ago)
 

Hi everyone! I was visiting an old office and was flooded with so many wonderful GFY memories.
I have been out of the loop for a long time.
(I've lost my six-pack, but I still have pink hair)

I'm wondering if anyone can catch me up.

What is the State of the Industry?

When last I checked, tube sites had destroyed the world and it looked like the only real revenue paths were 1) live cams and 2) Brazzers Megasites 3)Targeted Fetish/kink.com

What is the State of the Industry now?

I hope your year is ending beautifully.

Welcome back Hal . . . I will always remember our first meeting with fondness. No gay . . . not that that matters in 2014

Hey, Baddog! (I'm so out of practice... I keep looking for a "LIKE" button. ):1orglaugh

They really need to add one . . . . and I realized I meant to say "no homo" . . . I went to FUBAR to find pics but he has an error so no can do . . .

What industry?

Nice seeing you post here. I LOVED your Ted Talk and miss your awesome attitude at the shows.

I'm not cool enough to be on your FB friends list but I still follow you there from time to time.

Much respect...

Aaron! Happy New Year, old friend. You have my respect, as well.

Your the guy from the PINK hair color :1orglaugh

always enjoyed past threads I read about yall

I think this chart sheds some light on the current trends...

http://rajivbhardwaj.com/wp-content/...he_real_on.jpg

Back then when the tubes took over the industry has not recovered. Period.

That's kinda what I was wondering about. Is that the model? Flood tube sites with branded free/stolen content?


Is there a new service? did PinkTV ever manifest?

These days is basically who u know :)

That's about it, the honest people who produced their own content are shadows of their former selves, many went out of business, those who survive are probably making 30% of what they did when you left adult. Smart, hard working people still make a decent living using the tubes and other traffic and lead generating techniques.

What are you doing these days? Motivational speaking is a full time gig?

Thanks, Mutt.

I'm working with a new company involved with fresh food distribution. It's been a wild, wacky ride. :) Of course, every once in a while I come up with the perfect idea for a site... :winkwink:

Long time Hal. Glad to see you are doing well. :thumbsup There is still money to be made, just different ways to do it now. :winkwink:

Good to see you droppin' by again Hal.

Still finding time for Burning Man these days?

The paradigm among the general porn buying age public is that Porn is Free.

The idea of buying porn is laughable to them.

With that said... there will always be people that buy porn, but the percentage% is super fucking low.

Damn - Talk about a blast from the past...

I miss the Burning Man pics and saying every year that I would be there 'next year'.....

You still pink?..

Nice.

Why did you lose your 6 pack? Just middle age or you don't work out and watch your diet like you used to?

What happened to 'Ashley' the girl who had a solo college girl site?

The people miss the Halcyon.Happy Holidays

Just getting older and slowing down. :) Less gym time, too. Light yoga is more my pace. :)

what did't changed :)

Welcome back dude! Still have the cd from Flashcash! Old good times... about now... yes I think LIVE CAMS has $$$

burning man celebrity is in the house :)

heh - long time no see ;)

some people are still doing fine :glugglug

from my experience: those who use tubes as marketing instrument do well, those that fought them have disappeared mostly

Welcome back!

Hi! I still have your flashcash mix cd in mp3 somewhere on my hdd :)

link to the TED talk anyone?

its right in his sig :)
https://youtube.com/watch?v=qOn6M...ature=youtu.be

Welcome Back Man :thumbsup

Hal!

Hey buddy good to hear from you. I have no input on your question right now but it's good to see you.

Got to figure another 50 % of the industry will be gone by 2015. Huff post did a article on how the love porn http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/1...n_4481738.html
Its really how they love free porn and how Americans watch 10 mins and thats about the time clips are now given for promotion because they said that time length converts best. How people accepted that baffles me.

a great TED Talk

lol, shows how much I look at sigs :1orglaugh thanks mate :thumbsup

Somewhat.

More of are you willing to work or do you want to sit back and bitch.

Most just want to bitch.

ooooh what a blast from the past, great to see you doing fine and good to have you on board again

I agree with this.

np :)

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Glad to see you're doing good Hal. It's been awhile since our adventures in Budapest!