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Originally Posted by tony404
Didnt they try the everything is free, ads will pay for all model in mainstream already and it pretty much failed?
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Not exactly.
They tried the "give stuff away for free to build up traffic numbers and we'll figure out how to make money off of it later" model.
They also tried that when overhead was very expensive. Overhead like storage, bandwidth, and processing.
Now the price bandwidth, storage, and processing are dropping like a stone....so it allows different kinds of business models to work.
For instance a free email service that charges for value added features like more storage or something like that.
A free blog hosting service that charges a nominal fee to have the ads removed.
The future in mainstream seems to be having a free version and a paid version of your service, whatever your service or product is. (This is at least according to the editor of Wired magazine, Chris Anderson)
Unfortunately I don't see this having a big future in adult because once the end user blows his load, his demand for our product drops to zero, at least for that day, or that few hours, or whatever.
Giving away samples of our product to entice surfers to buy the full version has been a staple of our business for a long time....but if we give too much away then the end user has no need for the full version and we don't make any money.
Since there isn't an advertising model that can support our overhead (which for us, is more than bandwidth, storage, and processing....we have to pay the talent, the shooters, etc) I don't see us following in mainstream's footsteps on this particular issue.