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Originally Posted by bronco67
Market over-saturation is going to dilute the quality of the product overall. Most porn is the exactly the same, and shit. I love Jayden James like you would not believe -- but honestly, if you've seen one of her scenes, you've seen them all. Why keep making identical products over and over again?
A high quality, unique product will always have customers.
Just talking from a surfer's perspective -- because while I am here to get insight into the adult business as I try to make my own product -- I'm still a surfer. I want to make my adult graphic novel and animation because I love erotica and porn. I believe too many people are making porn as a job, and not as a passion.
Look at Jules Jordan's work. That guy is an artist, no matter what anyone thinks of him. He puts some fucking stank on his scenes, and it's not the kind of thing someone can learn. For one of every Jules Jordan or John Leslie, there's 1000 hacks "trying to make a buck". People with talent and vision will make the money. The rest of it will go to crooks and clever business people who can work the system to their advantage. But that won't last long term.
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Think in general of the Adult Internet business model.
Produce a low cost site, nice design, CMS and content in general shot by people who couldn't compete at a level paying far more. Or shot by the site owner himself. And turn them out over and over again. Rinse and repeat.
The result was sites full of the same scene time and time again, often faked, often badly shot in terms of angles and poses and often just a clone of the scene the model and shooter had done an hour before. The only difference was the sofa, bed or girl.
The approach was to throw as much traffic as possible at it and some would convert. So more and more effort and money was put into getting affiliates to send more and more traffic and the cost was often met by the content budget.
Think of the long term effect on buyers of this business model.
Yes a few sites actually stopped to think "We're all playing leap frog with each other for traffic." A few like, Sapphic Erotica, FTV, Alsscan, Naughty America and some others had members areas and tours that converted better and retained longer. And had 100s of serious affiliates sending them traffic. For some these top sites didn't work because they were saturated with affiliates.