Originally Posted by CarlosTheGaucho

I assume, even after reading this discussion, what we can see here is a certain state of disorder, to sum it up, there are a couple factors I would examine as crucial:

1) there is more porn than ever on the market competing for the surfer and his credit card, mostly the same "clones" of what turned out to be succesful in 2000/ 01 or so

2) at the same time, it's the first time in the history when surfers have an IMMEDIATE access to free pirated porn, that doesn't require any semi technical skills or even waiting, immedate access to satisfaction with the content, that is totally similar to what most of the marketers are pushing.

3) on the top of that, for the first time, it's not the porn producer, but the consumer, who decides what he wants and what's available, just check all the big old school brands with their high quality product and how many of them bleed.

It's the first time when anyone can expose their ass, the definition of porn has changed, the consumers are not dependent on what producers put on the market but they can create even their own thing.

4) the consumer base is educated, and it's more and more consumers that already joined a paysite in the past, the internet in households is spread for say 10 - 12 + years and honestly, raise your hand who never searched for porn on the web.. These consumers are more demanding and know the old tricks.

5) Porn is not a luxury thing, it's a need, and there will be always a demand for that, unless it will be available for free, as far as it's a need, you'll just grab whatever turns you on to get off, the same as if you're hungry you grab a junk food to satisfy your basic need. This is a parallel to the tube porn vs. higher quality paid porn.

6) there is not much variety in the way the paysites are promoted over the years, just it's more promoters and more paysites around than ever, that's why blogs or review sites are still a succesful promotional tool, because they give the surfer a recommendation, a referrence, they amuse him, creating certain loyalty, they have character, instead of trying to grab the surfer for the product trying to amaze him simply with the obvious fact that he is seeing porn he saw already hundred times, as thousands of other sites do.

Just tried to do a little summary, feel free to add your thoughts.