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Originally Posted by Paul Markham
IMO this industry is a shadow of what it was, cams will never fill the gap and paid dating sites will suffer soon
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1) this industry is a shadow of what it was -> I 70% agree -> some companies with many bathrooms and income still exist, and will always exist. Just it is no more a joke for everyone to make money, bit is normal: no any business cheap and easy to start will keep this way for long, online as well as offline; everyone will jump on this "job" (including billion of chinese + billion indians) making it less profitable and increasing barrier to entry. Profitable will be left only what's hard to enter into, such as needs lots of $$ to startup.
2) cams will never fill the gap -> I 100% agree -> Cams it was a niche and will always be a niche. Only a 10% max of the guys in adult sites care to cams, it is a waste to send them all just to cams as 90% will not care to live shows even if these are free. Just this 10% of people who want interaction can't get "copied interaction", even in free shows the model talk with tippers and not to freebies, so this 10% business did not shrinked. What to do with rest of 90% who is happy with a copied dvdrip... I don't know, I may try to sell them dating partners, viagra and enlarge pills, gambling where legal, financial investments (some buy that in tube adverts, forex exchange etc.), guides how to hook girls or so.
3) paid dating sites will suffer soon -> I 110% agree -> in fact dating sites suffer a lot from some time not just in future. On side talk with some dating site reps they also believe in future everyone will find local date with simply free sites such as facebook, plentyoffish. Funny to hear from them. Also some pay dating sites as badoo they give most of the features for free, there is not strict trials, this is like myfreecams for cams. In fact dating sites monetize on its users by advertise to them other stuff (include cams again) or re-submit their profiles to yet other dating sites and so on, like tube sites bounce the users between them.
Bottom line for Paul Markham: a good cam girl is doing today same or more money she was doing in 2005, even she got a little older, while a photo and video content provider it is not, as it is difficult to find buyers who will buy lots, often and paying high enough to get back cost of production - unless you work for those few, too few, with many bathrooms.