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Originally Posted by Wizzo
That's not what was said, he said what sells on DVD doesn't sell well on the internet not the other way around.  |
Another POV.
As someone who's been going to porn video shows from the time when it was videos. EVERYTHING sold on video. From the amateur to Playboy. From teens to BDSM. From Blonds to Asians. On video there were countless themes and titles.
Less so for magazines because of the distribution limits. Magazines had to go on a shelf in a liquor store or Newsagents. These people were only interested in high selling titles. If a shop took 10 copies of each every month they expected to sell 10 copies every month. Also and far more important was the advertising. Magazine publishers made millions off selling ad space. Advertisers simply weren't buying space in a magazine that sold 10,000 copies a month unless it was wrapped in a deal with a dozen other magazines.
Companies like Fantasy Publications had dozens of titles and sold adverting packages in all of them. It was owned by Richard Desmond, Google him to see who he is. Most magazines sold 50,000 copies a month. Many like Barely Legal sold 200,000 a month and some like Penthouse and Playboy sold even more. So in the main magazine content was middle of the road to cater for a wide audience. But still there was teens to 60+, amateur to Playboy, Big Tits, Legs and even Girlfriends or Wives.
This thread of my POV
ISN'T about where we are today. The Internet and it's policy of giving away content, it was trying to sell, for free has done a lot of damage to the porn industry. People who used to spend now don't. Or do you think the millions on Pornhub or downloading Torrents are only paysite customers?
My POV is the Adult Internet took 5 customers from other sides of porn and turned them into 1-2 customers on the Internet. Or were the 10,000 viewing a gallery on a TGP site every day all buying porn? With only 1,000 clicking through to the site, of which 1 would buy.
Numbers are to illustrate the point.
And those 10,000 not buying porn from other avenues before?
Nathan all free porn has a place in this discussion. Tubes just took free porn to a new level of damage.
Educating surfers to not buy porn might work for short while so make money now. It won't work long term and when surfers realise Dating Sites that charge can be replaced for free, penis pills are a con and girls on MFC who don't deliver don't get paid Tubes will suffer. It just takes time, like it took them time to learn there's no need to pay for porn.