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Originally Posted by Libertine
Actually, free porn is a major problem.
The problem isn't that they make money, the problem is that they lower margins across the industry. The more you give away for free, the smaller the number of people that are willing to pay.
Tubes count on economies of scale. And the bigger their market share, the smaller they can afford their margins to be. If you lower margins per visitor by 50% on average, but increase traffic by 1000%, it's an easy increase in overall profit.
The problem is that the amount of people in this world is limited. If tube sites lower average spending per person by 50% and take up a large share of the market, it's a win for them but a loss for the industry as a whole.
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I'm going to try my best to keep my answer short
Starting with an example: A hosted gallery or gallery, the actual ratio of traffic to the gallery vs. sales it produced, was.. about as bad as it gets. Yeah, some galleries did rock, but the majority sucked balls. Ratios like 1:50k, 100k. I'm not talking clicks, that's about filtering, but rather raw traffic to the gallery vs. sales the gallery would produce over the years.
The point is, the amount of free loading surfers looking/downloading at free porn, and not actually buying was off the chart bad. It's not any better or worse today, but several things have changed.
With search engines, we used to be all over them, now we aren't. The SE's changed, popularity took over. All of us here, being less popular the the sites you listed :/
But even the worst galleries, and before the search engines, and how our Industry works in general... It created massive traffic flow.
Tubes, btw.. It's not the Free Porn.. could it be, it's clean? Unlike tgp/mgp networks? Or that you don't get cross billed 20 ways, upsold, or maybe you get to actually see what you are getting, so no tricks? I see tubes in a totally different light, it's not the free.. It's far better!
And that's why THEY WILL BUY! Tubes aren't running on thin profits.. They are kicking our ass because they can market to the people and we can't. That's our real problem is, on a global scale we can't direct market to the mass majority anymore, and the way tubes/piracy works, most traffic flow has stopped. It doesn't go from viewing a video to clicking a link, to more porn, to your site. It just stops at the Tube/torrent/forum, ect. They guy is done, or looks for more. No marketing is done to the global population, like tgp's did.
Now, add on the loss of mass Webmasters across the Industry, like 75% less. We have far less global penetration than we did. We don't have emails and spam, we don't have paysites sharing exits like they once did, and we don't have traffic flow from the largest sources of free porn traffic on the Internet.
We don't have 10,000's of more keyword domains online, trading traffic to tgps, that trade to others, that filter to paysites, that traded to other sites, that would dump to inhouse free sites, and the chain would cycle over and over and over.. marketing people, by the hundreds of millions because no mater where they turned on the Internet, they got porn!
Look at it today.. We aren't all over social networks, we aren't in chatrooms anymore, it's penis pills and people trying to steal your info in emails, the Internet changed..
We lost our global traffic penetration and now what we do have left is bottle necked into a small network of sites that don't filter it out.
Glad I kept that short.... just think what long would have been like