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Originally Posted by stocktrader23
Nobody wants to hear it. Aside from a few sites that will continue to justify their monthly fees things are going to move to micropayments, lower monthly cost access points, 1 off single year memberships and a fundamental shift in how adult webmasters generate income. What is 'outside of the box' today will be the norm in the near future.
Above all else, adult webmasters are going to have to figure out how to provide VALUE to their customers. Even $10 per month for 200 vids is too much when $0 per month gets you access to thousands. Even if all pirates died today the tubes would produce their own content and everything would remain the same otherwise.
1999 traffic and sales on the recurring membership of shit websites will not return ever.  |
I don't see much of a future for most people in this business. They don't have the ability to adapt and that means extinction. Affiliates are in the main way too expensive for the future and unless they have masses of traffic they can earn a few bucks from they're not going to be able to support themselves with the payment plans left.
Commission on micropayments that convert at 1-1,000 or worse will simply not be a viable option for most. And the only way to get traffic will be to have Tubes like pornhub which won't convert anything like that over all.
Sponsors will also start to drop out of the game. Big ones will remain by changing their payment plans. Again the money they earn will be reduced.
Surfers will also increasingly learn that the odds of getting laid off a dating site is low to none. Penis pills don't work and web cams will move to a model that doesn't need to support massive affiliate payments. Take that out of the price and the cost per minute plummets.
It's all very well having all the traffic. BUT IF IT'S TRAFFIC THAT WON'T SPEND IT'S COSTING MONEY.
How this will effect Tubes and their ability to pay the hosting costs to serve the traffic with free videos is the unknown element. Will they be able to afford the hosting on paid ads that don't work?
You need people to spend money to support the free content. So who knows what's to come. Not talking 2011, more like 2015.