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Originally Posted by The Porn Nerd
Paul is obsessed with how much money people make NOW vs. how much those same people (or people like them) made 10-20 years ago. I'm sorry Paul but where is it written that a company (or Industry) must have never ending growth?
Markets breathe. They expand, grow and shrink. As discussed many, many times before the REVENUE in the "adult industry" has grown 100x since 10 years ago. It's just not going to Paul Markham-like paysites. Therefore, according to Paul with his myopic view of life, the Industry is shrinking.
In other words, more money is being generated online NOW then it was 10-20 years ago. The money however is going directly to models (the horror!), big companies and those of us clever enough to figure out how to market in these crazy changing times.
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I would be happy if the revenue was the same as 10-20 years ago. Sadly it's shrinking revenue wise. Even the large sites are suffering because of the endless flow towards Tubes as they cut back on costs.
The number of programs not paying prove the state of the industry, the number of affiliates around. The numbers consuming their porn for free prove you're wrong, 20 years ago would mean 2000, well in 2000 if you wanted to jerk off to porn you had to buy it or put up with some random images or a borrowed video or magazine.
You claim models are making the money, prove it. Just because some are able to earn a living without using affiliates and other people's sites doesn't mean there is more money in the business. They mostly produce a very limited form of porn, camera on a tripod, solo girl or couple perform.
As for your claim of being able to figure out how to market your sites, no marketing tricks get past the the level of content offered. It has to really appeal to the consumer to back up marketing, as celandina says stop assuming the consumer fooled by your marketing. He see samples and decides on the quality of those samples whether he wants to spend money. This applies to all porn, models working on their own, paysites, Cams etc.