Oh I agree on that. Paysite sales are on life support. You know...the actual porn industry part of it.
Dating and cam...which are a part of the adult industry, but not really porn...are still hanging in there.
Not sure if it's still making as many NEW sales as it once did. It's hard for me to believe that there could be anyone left on the face of the Earth who hasn't already been cookied in for AFF.
And the industry numbers on AFF looks like they are losing money every year.
Cams has been huge business. But it's been declining a little bit over the last couple of years. The girls aren't making quite as much money overall and I'm seeing my own sales to them starting to decline slightly as well.
Just like dating sites...it's oversaturated and I think there might be a dozen people in the world who aren't already signed up at a cam site. lol
I have thought since the beginning that unless we can somehow (magically) get back to selling PORN again we are going to continue to see decline instead of real growth (not just minimal growth brought about by people becoming old enough to have a credit card).
I never saw how giving away the product to sell traffic could be anything but a relatively short term way to make a ton of money.
If a business isn't growing, but just going sideways...it's never a good thing.
And now, every indication that I can see in every way shows that the industry is contracting.
That is a bad thing.
And yes, I do blame it on a business model based on giving away everything for free in order to sell traffic.
Don't know that there is anything that can be done about that.
