Originally Posted by The Porn Nerd

I can what you are all saying but I also think this plays into the expectations of surfers. Part of the reason this Industry is suffering, or at lower levels than years before, is now tubes have "trained" surfers to expect....cumshots. Higher views, more time on site, I do understand how this helps....the tubes. But you could certainly edit a 10-12 minute clip WITHOUT cumshots.

The major problem with the Internet is most people and companies are terrified of 'lag time'. So no one does what needs to be done, taking the longer view that, in the end, the change will be better.

The New York Times (and other newspapers) faced this same exact issue (pun intended) a few years back. At that time you could go online and read The NY Times for free. Guess what happened? Their newspaper sales plummeted and they were, by some estimates, 1-2 years away from going out of business. The New York TIMES!!

So what did they do? They knew what they had to do but were terrified of doing it for more than two years (sound familiar?). They needed to CHARGE to view their product. "But we'll lose all that traffic and views!" (Sound familiar?) But the Times was facing a no-win situation so they, along with most major mewspapers, bit the bullet and started charging for their product. For the first 6-9 months their traffic/views did indeed go down the toilet. But after that people started coming back because they NEED their news (substitute 'news' for 'porn'). Sound familiar? They are still in business today, and actually growing from their low a few years back.

Moral: it might be a good idea to "re-train" surfers to NOT expect cumshots. Give them 10+ videos, fuck give them the entire thing EXCEPT the cumshots. A thought?