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Originally Posted by Brian837
Paul you are talking as if it is still 2000.
I use to shoot a scene and sell it on DVD and make thousands with it, then cut it up and encode it 5 different ways to make over 150 clips out of it and make another 500.
Then put it on the pay site as an update.
At the end selling the scene for 5 times more than what it cost me to make it.
I can't do any of that anymore. Hell back then I charged the customer 500 for the custom video so I made 500 to film the video and gave half to the girl so the cost of making the video was nothing. It made money.
You can't even compare it to back in the day.
I forgot the VOD sites LOL.
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Not so for us. This was how we worked up til 2007. Think on it like this.
We were being asked to shoot exclusive for the return of 5 store sales. It's impossible to saturate a scene with only 5 sales.
Then there were the set sales via the stores, 10 x $35 =$350. These sales figures are ridiculously low. When all those sales were done, on the main site. The content went into bargain basement at $5 and could sell 50 to 100 times. Lesbians and Boy/girl did better.
Then magazine sales. $1,000 to the UK and $1,00 to $2,400 to the US. Then EU sales. 17 were paying $250 for a non-exclusive set so long as we shot the girls in their T-Shirts at the end of the shoot. Second rights were a small market for us, like Japan and Australia. And in the end, there was Photorama, still get the occasional check.
The BG videos were good, we swapped them with other producers for 1 of ours to 5 of theirs.
And today I'm still getting money from sales.
We paid the girl $500 for the day and shot, at least, two scenes. Worth $3,000+ each scene.
You were shooting DVD, I moved to magazine sets the moment I arrived here. I don't think we had a video camera for the first few years. I sold my Beta Cam in the UK. So we're comparing apples and oranges.
Especially when people tell me content producers had an over inflated opinion of their content.
Look on it as two sites, site A converts 1-100, site B converts 1-1,000. With exactly the same traffic. And the owner of Site B is telling you, your opinion of what you're worth is inflated.