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Originally Posted by plsureking
interesting article although porn might be too far gone to recover. one significant suggestion in the article that related to porn is to 'offer your own free product'. some program owners have purchased or launched their own tube sites but i don't think they are taking market share away from the major tubes - or benefiting from many upsells to their paysites.
the article also stated that one way to compete against free is on quality and/or features. however one network or paysite cannot compete with a tube site that has thousands of videos in a wide range of categories. when faced with the choice between paying for a quality site and not spending the money, 99% of customers will choose to keep their money in their wallet. that leaves all program owners competing for the very small number of customers with unlimited discretionary income.
and in a recession that results in a lot of hungry site owners..
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Finally we agree on something.
Porn is too far gone on giving it's product away to keep going down the same route as it it. The article talks about a competitor giving it away, what about when the company itself gives it away and spends loads of money to do so?
Also agree on your point of too big and expensive a problem for one site to solve. In micro niche, they're on their own. For the rest, they need to come together and share the costs of the solution. The market isn't profitable enough today for single companies to afford the solutions.
The only thing you got wrong was the 99%
99% of surfers always chose to keep their money in their wallet. Today it's worse than 1-1,000 surfers. Over all and counting surfers who never click a link, knowing it goes to a place wanting their money.