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Originally Posted by DVTimes
Yes tubes and tgp's and forums where people post free pics and vids have stoped a lot of sales.
BUT there are more people on the net now than ever.
In theory the increased number of people now on the net should have meant the freeloaders would not affect sales.
OK, so the big tube sites may get a million hits say a day.
Thats still nothing when you look at say who are on the net from the USA alone. Then include the UK and then all the rest.
One must presume also that many on tubes sites are probably from say china and other countries where buying porn is not easy, plus (lets be honest) a lot of under 18 year olds with no credit cards.
So that leaves millions who could be joining your sites.
So where are these customers, or do these days they no longer want porn?
We are buying hits from tubes and tgp's. Basicly its the same customers being sent to each others sites. Its the same people. No new ones.
I posted a thread about facebook. And lets face it, thats what many now use the net for. They no longer serfe the web.
Mabe its that people now can get sex easer. Log into facebook, and find somone you know who wants no strings sex. No cost. Why bother with porn when you can do it for real.
Dogging too is more common. Drive out and find some bit in a carpark. Have sex, go home.
Mabe porn is no longer needed.
Or mabe it is.
The problem is getting new people to your site.
And thats the key to sales.
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wrong on so many levels.
- Before facebook and myspace there were other sites like AOL, Plenty of Fish, Net Meeting etc. I used AOL back in the late 90s to meet many many girls. But I still surfed porn. Besides the fact that there has always been places for people to go to for free to meet people, the basis of your argument is more for how this would affect dating sites not porn sites.
- There is no porn on facebook, myspace, youtube, etc. While people might see "sexy" pictures there, why would they go around jerky off to clothed girls when they can go to a tube site and find any type of girl they like doing just about any sex act that turns them on and watch an hour long VIDEO of it. If anything the myspace, youtube etc. may get them horny and prompt them to go to other places to find the porn.
The two biggest problems affecting porn sites today:
1. 99% of the content I would pay to see I can find easily for free.
2. Credit cards... people's balances were reduced drastically over the last couple years. Many people are now maxed out, over the limit, unemployed and living off of their cc, lost their home, business, income, went bankrupt etc. Sorry, the myth I believed and many others is not true, Porn is not recession proof. We depend on credit cards, when credit cards have no more available balances or they are in collections and can't charge any more, you feel the fringes of a recession in porn.
I argued that porn was recession proof for years and I was wrong, but mainly because of our dependence on credit cards. One of my examples was, if someone is broke and smokes they still find a way to pay for cigarettes. However, they can pay for that with cash, boom a couple bucks off a friend, scrape some change up etc... if their credit card is maxed out they simply can't buy any more no matter what the item is. Also, if they were giving away cigarettes for free on every corner and all you have is a maxed out credit card in your pocket, do you think you ever going to make a sale from this person??? hell no.