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Originally Posted by harvey
I know many people uses to slam you on points I think they're quite valid. And these are quite valid points. I know nothing about selling content to magazines, but I assume that's a good aditional income. However, that applies to content (mainly), and even though content is key, the perception of what content is is one of the main factors to get out of the loop.
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I have never cared a lot about what people say about my posts. Most of them are webmasters commenting on content. The position of the industry is not due to people following my advice.
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As for niches, as I mentioned and Naja-ram agrees, most content nowadays is crap, mainly because it's shot in bulk and the same people shots every single niche out there without having a slight idea of the niche itself. An example including myself: when I shot content, I was requested some smoking niche content. I said "sure, let's make the girls fuck and include cigarettes, blunts, whatever". Well, I was soooooo off base it was embarrassing. After that, with some knowledge about specific fetishes I decided to explore what's about every single niche I'd think off. I made a lot of research, made polls, studied consumer trends and noticed one of the main points business is falling is because most content is off niche. At least 50% of the paysites are selling ice to eskimos.
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The content of a site is the entire members area. Pictures and videos are a large part.
This is always true, "You get what you pay for." and "If you pay peanuts you get monkeys."
And this industry in the main was never prepared to spend the money required to get good or great content
Please will no one point out the exceptions to try and prove me wrong. Often the only thing that mattered was the price and quantity they were getting. So we ended up filling sites with lots of poor content, some sites left it at the amount they had in the beginning and some added new. But often it was lots of new content no different than what was already there.
None of this has anything to do with the availability of good shooters. They just would not work for the money most were prepared to pay. $1500 for 5 solo girl videos and sets is a joke. Especially when the idiots paying it ask for exclusive or new girls that the good shooters can shoot for a day ad make $6,000 and more and keep ownership of the content.
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So I know when it comes to teens you're one of the best out there, no matter how much people slams you. Personally, I never understood the "exclusive vs non-exclusive" thing. Unless content shooters are shooting very "on niche" content, it's easier to find non-exclusive content that converts better, especially if we're talking of fetishes and some mainstream niches (anal niche sites are the first that comes to my mind. with just a couple changes they could improve conversions greatly). And shooting in HD isn't bad, if the content is good a better format will be better. If the content is bad, it's better to shot it with "amateurish" look, so at least it's explained by the amateur spirit.
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I'm no longer the best out there. Not shot for years and Eva has been the shooter i my place. What I do know is if these other guys are so good why are they not selling to magazines?
The "exclusive vs non-exclusive" is down to in the beginning there were so few people producing content for the Net and a lot of it was all over the place. The reason was simple, sponsors could not or would not pay enough for content. The prices and deals offered were a joke and I started a content store instead. And I'm not unique on this. There were and still are hundreds of great shooters with filing cabinets of great content ready for sale. But not at the price being offered.
There is no shortage of great porn content, just a shortage of people who can afford it.
Then there is the situation of programmers don't always make good judges when buying porn.
Add to this the sales line to affiliates that content had to be exclusive and you had a recipe for poor, small, bland sites that needed a ton of new traffic every day to make it work.
Amateur is tough to shoot properly. A shooter is trying to get a performance from a model that looks like it's being done for real and the fun of it. Tough thing to achieve when the only reason both are there is to make money. Most think amateur is an excuse for bad.