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Originally Posted by RadicalSights
It died long ago.... there's only a handful of people left in Adult making any real $$ off of promoting sites.
And it's just the same for others (content producers, designers, Performers) in the industry as well. I remember when it was easy to get people to pay you thousands of dollars for web design in Adult for example. Back in 05 I made over 12 grand just off of 1 single client during the year. The demand was still there... people constantly opening new sites etc... Now a days you're lucky when you find someone willing to pay you a few hundred bucks for something.
Adult has basically degraded into nothing more than a Clown industry filled with broke people who expect everything for nothing because they can't turn a good profit anymore after giving all their shit away for free.
Mainstream is where all real $ is, has alway been and will always be.
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While it is much harder to make money than it used to be, on the design side I think there is another reason for this. Big companies hire inhouse people so they don't hire out as much and freelancers have to deal with people overseas. As piracy got more and more common there became no capitol investment separation for designers. Gone are the days when a person needed to invest several grand in software to be a good designer. Now a guy living in a third world country can get that same software for free in a heartbeat from torrent sites so you care competing with them directly.
Perfect example. A few months back I made a post in the buy or sell section asking for designers to give me a rough idea of what they would charge to make me some blog headers. Admittedly it wasn't a hard job, but one I have no time to do. I got a few offers from US based designers wanting between $75-$250 per header. I got several offers from people in other countries for $10 per header. I went with the cheap one and the headers look freaking great.
It is tough to compete with someone who can live on 1/10th as much as you so they can afford to charge 90% less than you.