Watching the threads of people bitching about a sponsor not paying, no one buying and free cams spoiling the business is sad and funny at the same time.
Sad that a business I love is sliding down with little hope of stopping.
Funny in that now after all the years of seeing how you guys screwed up and being told I was clueless, offline didn't get, surfers didn't want what offline had. You see the truth. You were the clueless one, not the affiliates. They were mostly the lucky ones for a little while. Overpaid, over supported and over cosseted. All that happened was people who would never of got in and grabbed some traffic, earned a living. Which took money out of the pockets of the skilled.
If affiliate numbers were reduced by 90%, there would be no less people buying porn, maybe more.
I got it entirely. We knew if we went 100% online, it would cost us money. So we went 50/50 and made money in both camps.
Offline porn never got it.
They got it 100%. Online porn just never worked it out. They also were better off where they were. It was you that never got offline. For a few $100 a scene more, online sites could of had a foot in both camps. Sold online under 1 label, offline under another. A huge swathe of shooters are freelance, like us, and would of worked for online. Just not the money online were paying. If some had paid there could of easily been more sites like Met Art, Alsscan or any other good site. Twistys content would never make it into Penthouse of Club. Not good enough to compete with Hicks, Thomas and others.
This goes for most niches.
The reason so many said, "Surfers want amateur." Is that's all most of you could afford or could produce.
Now as Free and piracy takes more surfers everyday. Many are reduced to selling traffic, working part time in adult or looking for the door marked Exit.
Some are still making money and if they don't blow it all on cars, houses, bling and toys. They might be OK, most will have to work till they retire or can't and drop.
The reason online porn is in the toilet is.
You guys never got how to market porn online.