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Originally Posted by Paul Markham
There is still money in porn. Just a tiny fraction of what there used to be.
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For you maybe. If you were a good dating / cams affiliate you would know that statement is completely false.
There is less money in PAYSITES now that before (although not as much of a dip as people think) and Im sure less in shooting content. BUT, the companies that make really good, HQ content for their sites are still doing big joins. And Id guess the top 5% (quality wise) of content producers are still working regularly, but thats a guess, its not my end of the industry.
Dont kid yourself, companies like BangBros, MetArt, Skeet etc that produce really high quality shit are making sales. They aren't shooting all that content and loosing $$. Maybe not quite as many sales as before, but big numbers none the less.
The part of the industry thats dying are the mediocre pay sites filled with old, plain, bulk purchase content. And that made up a BIG % of the total sites out there. You can set up a pay site, affiliate program and fill it with Junk for a few thousand dollars. As you know, to do it with HQ, custom content is not a cheap proposition. And the affiliates that are dying are the same. Mediocre, one trick ponies who's methods worked well when it was easy and their method worked. The true, creative marketers are still doing as well as ever. Im talking about the ones who mix up their methods and the offers they promote. They see a dip, they test and play with new traffic sources and offers to fill the void.
I know MORE than a few affiliates from the "old days" who were taught or fell into promoting porn with just one method, but that method stopped working and now they whine. A lot. Its weird....this is the only industry where SOOOO many people act like that. What if Apple had continued to make JUST the Apple 2e, never coming out with new options they needed to stay current and on top? "Man, its bullshit, IBM and these other guys keep making all these new, smaller laptops and things and the sales of our 2e are 10% of what they used to be"
We'd laugh and say they were out of touch. That they didn't know what they are doing. That they should mix it up and try something new. Food for thought.