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Originally Posted by BestXXXPorn
Content is still what they are looking for, everything else is a feature or added benefit.
Content is king; would you go see or buy a crappy movie? Delivery mechanism is secondary unless the buyer is looking, specifically, for a format. In that case it becomes a requirement for purchase but some people are willing to STILL buy something not in the format they want (e.g. DVD over BluRay) if the content is just that fucking good  Nobody is going to buy crappy content (unless for some novelty reason) no matter what the format.
They've purchased it for the content... Everything else is secondary and tertiary... It HAS to start with good content. I guarantee I could sell Polaroid pics on the street today if the content was crazy hot ;)
I'm not saying that both privacy and format choice aren't major factors in the equation by any means, they certainly are! But content is, and always will be, ZI KING! |
When selling a repeat buy product it will always be king. People don't buy the same brand or even product over and over because it was shit and the promoters kept sending them there.
The problem with this part of the porn industry is it simply isn't willing to pay the cost of shooting quality content.
I know I've said this over and over but it's still true.
The mags paid us well enough to get it right. It was paid for when it went to print, so even if on the editors shelf, it's not bought until it's in print. If we produced rubbish we went bankrupt.
For 2 solo girl sets of a good girl shot in one day we could get $8,000 return on sales. NO CUSTOM EXCLUSIVE INTERNET PORN SHOOTER HAS EVER MADE THAT. To my knowledge, but I'm sure they will all say they had.
In truth if they had sold sets to magazines, they wouldn't be shooting 4-5 solo girl sets and videos for $1500 to $2,000 for the day. We weren't shooting for that money, we didn't have to.
Yes times have changed, about 5 years ago. So all the "bro" custom shooters around then and now, were either not good enough shooters or not good enough businessmen to make a call. That's all it took to go and see the editors and submit work.
And neither were the sponsors bright enough to make their members areas content profitable without a single member seeing it.