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Old 07-21-2009, 02:07 AM  
Paul Markham
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Originally Posted by Mutt View Post
I wish it was the recession - some of it is of course - but we have pretty much destroyed this industry on our own. How many paying customers in the last couple of years have had their credit cards banged to hell after joining an adult paysite or one of these 'free' tubes run by WEG. tube sites, forums/rapidshare, torrents have further eroded the industry.

we're left with a much smaller potential market and there are far too many programs and DVD studios to support the market.

this time next year there will be half the webmasters there are now and many of the remaining will do so only because they don't have an alternative.
Truth. Blaming it on the recession is stupid and fools no one. Tubes don't need affiliates and few have the money to buy an advert. Is that the fault of the recession or industry?

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Originally Posted by Barefootsies View Post
Agreed.

When you focus on on the BROS alone, you leave a lot of the others out.

There are thousands of independents, mom and pops, small to medium production companies that make up 'the industry'. A lot more than are visibly represented on ANY of the boards. This one included.

The BROS are what? Maybe 100 big companies if that?
And something boards should think about. Running a board that caters too much to advertisers loses people they need, the posters and readers.
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