Are we facing the "Uberisation" of the Porn industry?
 

The phenomenon is not new but certainly more and more present.

I see more and more models stop making porn movies to become cam girls...
I see more and more models selling their own produced content through platforms that are the intermediaries, just like Uber...

And how to blame them! They keep the full control, remove the middle man part and get a bigger part of the cake.

I wonder. Is it the proclaimed death of tradional porn industry?

Like we say :

Facebook, the world's most popular media owner create no content
Uber, the world's largest taxi company owns no vehicules
Airbnb, the world's largest accomodation provider, owns no real estate
Alibaba, the most valuable retailer has no invotory
...

Paysites are a platform as well, this is why most cam girls do porn shoots, to raise their online following.

Pay sites aren't dead, there are just new platforms in addition to pay sites.

The sky is not falling, it's just changing color.

I know one cam chick who has a college degree and makes $90k a year making porn. She works her own hours and she is her own boss. It's easy money for her.

Why work for a big porn company where they keep most of the money for themselves and they have to take orders from someone who just wants to use them.

Smart girls with a sense for business will always look to control their own destiny by running their own site(s), doing cam work, etc.

Those girls who are desperate, drug/drink-addicted, young and dumb, partiers, girls in college, runaways, etc etc? They are looking for the quick fix buck so will always go to whoever dangles the most immediate cash.

Well it would be great if people who actually create things gets paid for it. The new digital economy is cutting out a lot of middle men, who if we're being really honest here have no talent except being middle-men.

The content that these models "produce" with their phones or private Snap, etc. are ephemeral, it's a "plus", it won't replace the great content we produce with them :)
These auto promo platforms are just another type of middle-men...
Uber won't make car builders disappear :)

I agree with both these. Camming is not easy, and doing full time is even harder. There will always be talent, but the best business women will strive to own their IP and do direct to consumer work.

camming is much easier than porn and the models do not have to fuck anybody...a quality model can make an easy 50-100$/hour and can work from home...

Yo do realize...how..uber is middleman ?

congrats to catching up to sites like My Dirty Hobby only 10-12 years later

in Germany it has been like this since 2005 or so when Privatamateure.com launched

^^^ Truth

Booking.com has been here for over 20 years and owns no real eastate too. Good morning grandma.. :winkwink:

C4S has been here for ages too, chicks can sell their own clips.. Cams ditto... what exactly is new?

No, cams won't replace porn, it requires patience, consistency and good English skills. Most porn chicks want quick money, need to be directed and don't want to spend hours building customer base and enticing annoying dudes to pay for private shows. Once they discover they can be easily captured and then uploaded on tubes they realize it's the same privacy risk as when doing porn shoots, except they don't need to spend hours sitting in front of their computers and get paid in cash when shooting porn.

You can use the same argument for "luxurious" whores that take 100€ per hour, there are many of them here "working" at home, paying no taxes.. yet there are girls who prefer shooting porn, cause they get to work with professionals and they realize that whoring and porn acting are not the same things.

Why shouldn't a model make the most of what she's doing?

A decent camera is affordable, the rest is just her working.

Cuts out the studio, main site, affiliates and all the other costs from her hard work.

Your reply shows that you didn't read the rest of the replies Paul lol
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Middlemen like webmasters? :1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

Agreed, the Cam and self-site model takes a little bit of knowledge and the ability to speak English. But after that what is there that's so great that a photographer, pornsite company, affiliate offers that can't be replaced by a girl who is willing to work?

That leaves the non-English speaking girls and those who only need fast cash. The druggies and alcoholics were never a good place to find models. Maybe you find it different in your side of the business. I do know that girls who want quick cash in these parts don't want to do porn because of the publicity it brings.

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The part I dont get is the cam girls not allowing people to promote them.

I guess they still have a little to learn.

I once tried to sell a magazine ad to a club. They said we dont need to advertise we have location.

3 months later as I passed every day and saw an empty parking lot. They closed the doors.

Location is nice. drive by's are nice but a " City " has a lot more people that the ones that drive by.

And those are the ones that need to know you exist.

No, they cannot. Dude, spend a few minutes actually reading at a cam girl site. Most of them quit within a month. Only a few of them work full time, and only a few of them average $50/hr.

Yes, the top 100 camgirls make that and more. The drop off is rapid and hard.

I have to agree with Cruci here. Quality girls can make $50 to $100 an hour. They don't work for sites and do all their own marketing.

What can you bring to the table, how much do you want for it and will you stick within the model's guidelines?

Your problem was persuading the models that you were worth sharing their wages with them. Afterall, they can promote themselves directly on so many platforms you have to offer something special at a rate they accept.

I am a studio boss and out of the 100-s of models who came and went most of them were able to make 50$/hour easily...the problem is they work 1-2 hours and then quit for the day and then their position drops and then they have to bust their balls to come back to page 1 and then the whole cycle repeats...

the hotter they are the less they care about work and the more they rely on finding a sugar daddy in real life so that they can work even less....if you gave me a hot hot model with ambitions and work ethic I could easily get her to make 1000$/day with traffic and promotion and say 6 hours work/day...but this is waaay to much to ask :1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh