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We seem to be on two separate pages here. First, as for the billing. As mentioned previously, CCBill or similar could handle the billing exactly how they do now. It's exactly the same thing as billing for any other content you license to sell just with different price points.
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preloaded accounts and micro payments that sky rocket your transaction count, making it so one person could cb and blow a small sites ratios out.... it will never happen on a 3rd party.
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As for your second point, hardly any of that stuff is required. If the gateway is hosting the content it would be uploaded as is. If it's so horrible that it shouldn't be sold then it would be rejected. I see no reason that the content couldn't remain hosted on the content owners end anyhow. It would just be another billing method similar to hooking up mobile billing on your existing site.
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You can't have multiple formats... simply put, support couldn't handle it.
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Admins, techs, coders, etc. I'm sorry but there is just not that much involved with anything on the internet anymore. A group of two or three people could easily manage the entire operation and you aren't going to convince me otherwise. I know exactly what things used to cost but they don't cost that anymore. There are websites out there (cough reddit) hosting up hundreds of millions of pageviews per month with a tiny staff and even tinier operating budget. Shit man, there are Tube sites around that were originally founded by one damn person. You trying to tell me a content owner can't upload their own video like idiot surfers do on YouTube?
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It takes roughly a team of 10 people to maintain a vod company correctly. Reddit is a joke, not a porn micro billing site.
This isn't a tube filled with 90% shit content, almost all of which isn't hd.
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Also, the most important point I want to make is this. You keep comparing this to a VOD or clip store but one thing your examples miss is the correct price point. $5 to $10 to watch a single video is fucking retarded and those sites should fail hard.
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They all offer download to own, and have done it much cheaper. The reason the prices are $5-$10 is because you make no money otherwise.
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I don't know how so many in this industry can look at what is going on around them and somehow fail to take ANY of it in. RedBox is booming. NetFlix is booming. Hulu takes the combined efforts and millions of dollars of content that the big networks create and offers access to it all either for free or $10 per month.
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We can't send porn through he mail and not get our asses handed to us, and plenty of people do it like hulu. Hulu btw, has cable tv to complete with - not porn.
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If you provide VALUE at a reasonable monthly charge people will pay. A reasonable monthly charge isn't $30 per month for content from one jackass with a paysite that is a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of what's available.
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$30 is what the surfer likes.. They signup the best, rebill the best, lowest cb's/refunds while keeping affiliates happy and the net profits moving through the company as well.
Dropping to $20 a month is more than half your money gone - it does not mean more transactions - it 100% of the time does mean less money though.
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If you provide VALUE at a real micro price point people will pay. A real micro price point isn't $8.99 or even $4.99 for a porn video. A micro price point is one where when someone links you to a 'OMG you have to see this!' video and you see the price you don't even blink before pulling out your credit card..
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It's been tried from pennies to giving them airline tickets vouchers.
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I have not promoted a standard porn affiliate program in 3 years. Even I would send traffic to a site offering thousands of videos for $1 to $2 each.
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If I was you, I would stick to the normal programs, as the $1 micro site won't be around for the next pay period to pay you.
It would be "impossible" for a porn site to charge that little and stay in business, straight up - impossible.