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Originally Posted by Mutt
better hope TTBoy doesn't wake up one day and realize he might make more money on his own from his vast content library with a legal tube site with all exclusive content upselling cams, dating and other crap.
we will see that model tested - somebody with their own high quality exclusive content will go the tube route - legally - it's the way the Internet is going whether anybody likes it or not. I don't think the model will support somebody going out and producing expensive content for tube sites but for those that already have a big catalog - it might.
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- producing content and its promotion / bandwith and all other stuff actually still costs money
- do you rather want to market the same thing to a targeted audience doing 1:350 and having a complete control over anyone that signs up or at 1:10 000 (hypothetic number) to people signing up for someone else's site,
- that all with the COMPLETE oversaturation of porn on the web these days, do you want to push a tube site with your full length videos converting at 1:10 000 to someone else's site with an advertising budget comparable to pushing your paysite?
-meaning this is not a customer you can further market to
- where you rely on someone else to get paid
- and where you can't ever ever get the potential customer back to the model that used to work before?
Sorry, and excuse for a bit of simple math, this whole model of giving away the product for free is totally worthless and would never ever happen in any industry that is organized / unified.
Let's also try to think this way:
- There is a limited amount of surfers that are surfing porn / capable of paying and that we all can get for our paysites to pay for what they are actually finding worth paying to
- out of this limited amount - every single day more and more are offered and reaching the free substitute
- the demand is shrinking, there's practically no brand loyalty, there are no real alternative ways to market the video and it's producers ( where does a free view stand against VOD / subscription / pay per download etc.?)
All of these illegal sites are stealing money from paysites and other affiliate marketers pushing paysites.
Someone (advertisers), is practically financing these entities to steal traffic / potential customers from their competition to sign up for their own service, I don't actually find it right, although, of course it makes some sense.
For one to achieve the most profit and market share, it's always way more convenient to crook than to behave "economically", unless ethics or more likely regulations are in place.