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Originally Posted by BV
You are way off.
The barrier is lower than it has ever been.
Hosting is cheaper than it has ever been.
Scripts are cheaper than they have ever been.
Information on how to put it all together is more available than it's ever been.
In the beginning you had to figure shit out on your own and fork out some substantial coinage each month for hosting, etc etc.
Now any flopdick can get a 99 dollar server and throw up 10,000 plus hosted flvs in a few hours and start making a few bucks.
Problem is these people never really made any serious money and if they can make a few bucks a day running a tube site (which costs them almost nothing), they just rinse and repeat creating more and more free porn.
Bottom line, the problem is there is too much free porn and it is easier than ever to sling out to the masses! (and the masses are eating it up)
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Weird cause I am sure that in the beginning I could get a free smutserver/kinghost/terra.es (damn they rocked) account put some bullshit gallery on it with a simple banner or textlink, submit it for free (no submit passes back then) and make a shit load of sales on a single gallery. Good times!
Thing is even though it might look easier now, with all the info out there and cheap bw etc etc, making the actual sale is not that easy anymore. And yes this is also due to the loads of free content out there BUT there is a big diffrence in todays internet. Back in the day people would get an AOL account and first thing they did was search for porn. These days the majority of people go online and first thing they do is setup a Facebook account, register for twitter, talk to friends on MSN, and at the end of the day when they might have a little bit of time left they look at some porn.
There is simply so much more to do these days on the internet than there was 10 years ago, so blaming it all on the free content out there is just not making sense imo. There are still affiliates (not talking sponsors) out there doing 100s of sales a day, and thats not because they are lucky (most of the times lol). Its because they know what they are doing.
Years ago the big TGP guys where king. They made shitloads of money however most never changed a thing, so now they are dying. Is it because they were lucky and had no clue what they did or did they make enough and stopped caring about it? Point is they are going down, others came in and took over. Blame the tubes all you want but in the end of the day they have all the traffic and still make a load of money.
Some of the old school guys always said why change a winning team, well if you don't adapt (there it is I said it) and change the way you market you willl not make it in todays world.
So yes there is a lot of free porn out there but there is also still a lot to be made.
Damn, this must be my longest post ever lol!!!