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Originally Posted by Helix
There is no reason for the consumer to whip out the credit card for porn anymore. Why should they? everything is free!
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Not having a go at you because the rest of your post shows you do have a clue.
However if you don't know the answer to that you should not be in the business of selling. If you don't know how to compete with people you should go learn a new profession. Because people who know how to profit from free will take your business away from you.
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Originally Posted by Jesus H Christ
IMHO porn will always be bought due to exclusive content. WTS the vast majority will use porn via a traffic proxy. For instance, as a test I set up a tube site for skiing. The traffic was minimal and my best day 5 vids uploaded. I added chicks getting fucked in the snow and my traffic increased 200% and 30+ non-porn vids were added daily due to the traffic increase. I pulled the site due to it NOT being my niche.  |
This post actually shows more of the reason why Tubes are taking members away.
Not having a go at Jesus just the thinking behind content production for the last 8 years. This is general and there are exceptions.
Mainly the custom content was produced on a budget that stopped people doing a good job. You don't get great shooters shooting great content on some of the budgets offered for custom content. This has led to models working badly and producing a bad product. It has also led to content being shot badly, a fuck scene should be 10% maximum of genital close ups. I see scenes where it's over 20%. Faked porn sucks, faked reality is not worth paying for.
Also it leads to smaller sites, a custom scene can often cost 10 times what a non exclusive scene can cost. That leads to sites 1/10th the size, OK 1/5th in some cases. It leads to a site where the consumer is expected to sign up for a month to a site that's got a small selection of scenes often shot by the same person and each scene repeats itself, they just change the girl.
As far as selection is concerned Tubes have you beaten. Because you needed to buy "exclusive" to feed the TGPs.
That's the only place most content got saturated, if it were saturated inside members areas we shooters would be very rich. Micro niche has to be shot exclusive because we will not shoot it. Most porn does not need to shot exclusive unless you shoot it very special.
This industry needs to see why customers are turning to Tubes and Torrents to compete with them. AND if all the "experts" were so right in the past we would not be where we are today and losing customers. The problem was the experts were talking to affiliates and clue less about what the customers want to buy.