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Originally Posted by starpimps
good read
thanks for the post
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Agreed.
The "free" business model will never work for all. Just as the tube site will not work for all.
There are different segments to this industry, and media in general. People keep trying to cram all of it into this nice little box of 'free', and/or ad driven revenue, and it will not fit.
Traffic tube dudes do not give a rat's ass about the longevity of the production side. The production guys are spitting blood about their shit being stolen to drive traffic and getting no revenue from it. The BROgrams are paying the traffic guys trying to get a few bucks from sales reinforcing the traffic tubes to stay in business.
There are many factors at play in this industry, and there is no one harmonious single minded vision beyond making money. Production guys do not give a rat's ass about traffic. Traffic guys do not give a rat's ass about content. A lot, not all,
BROgrams do not give a rat's ass about consumers beyond the one time sign up, bang their card for max revenue. This is reinforced by a network of sites that have not been updated since 2001.
Free will work for traffic guys. But for the rest of the industry, needed for content, free is not a sustainable business model when there are costs to distribution and production. As long as it costs to pay models and staff. You are never going to have 'free'.
What people forget is, and this shows the age of some in this industry, that the 'free' Utopian internet dream was crushed in late 90's and early 2000's. It does not work. It has been proven. This is 10 years later and people saying, and doing, the same bullshit as back then. People will not pay, this and that. All said and done before.
Open a history book.
