I dont understand how people who shoot their own content could be broke
 

A peice of porn can be used over and over again. all over the net, inside sites, pay per view, magazines, for years and years. Its like an endless investment.
When you have your own adult movies, aren't you sitting on a goldmine?
What am I missing?

Production costs maybe?

Business sense, is what they are lacking.

As saturation increases, demand and therefore value decreases.

And that's just for starters.

goldmine? - thanks for the best joke of the day :1orglaugh

Why do some great musicians with great songs stay poor while ignorant bastards like the YinYang twins get rich?

DISTRIBUTION...

If you don't have it, it matters not what product you have.

I've always been partial to cheaply made porn. 3 lamps, a bed, and a shaky camcorder.

Hmm

you are so absolutely fucking right with what you say....

Very true:)

Content providing is more like a brick and mortar business you have all kinds of issues.

production cost
distribution/exposure
and a huge one is COMPETITION.

Your pictures are not worth the film they are on if no one wants to give you what you want for them, the good thing about a capitalistic society is there is probably someone out there willing to do it for cheaper. Well good for you and yours, not so much for them. Also takes way more "moving" for them, always have to be pushing your product, always have to know how to sell, it is just like any other real world business LOTS of work.

What BVF and jade_dragon said. Plus some people like to look at naked girls and take pictures of them, but they do not shoot anything that anyone else would particularly want to look at.

Distro
Cost of creation
Quality

The value of content depreciates very fast. Surfers only want to see a content set once (maybe twice) then it's boring (been there/done that). Then they want something new they haven't seen.

Surfers don't pay $30/month to join a paysite to see content that they've already seen 3 times. They pay to see new & fresh stuff they've never seen before.

It's all about new new new.

Think about watching sports on TV. It's fun to watch a basketball game the first time. What if I made you watch it again a week later? and again a week after that? and again a week after that? Same game, but after watching it the first time, it's not very interesting to watch it again and again and again.

Exactly :) marketing and distribution . Create a hype arround something .

I hear lots of people blow their money at trade shows:glugglug

they blow their money on hookers and coke

maybe no body is buying it and then again people do blow money so maybe he is making plenty and spending it too

content shooters need to start thinking up new niches and shooting that instead of another Hardcore set, number 1,642. :2 cents:

Anyone can go broke. Sometimes everything hit you at once and it all collapses.

Look at Donald Trump a couple years back he had a negative net worth of - $6 Billion. Now he's back up to a positive one of $3 Bil.

Things go up and things go down.