| CDSmith |
10-20-2014 10:38 AM |
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Originally Posted by MediaGuy
(Post 20259849)
- How long have you been in porn?
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Roughly 17 years.
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- How did you get in? Via a Canadian company or a US-based company or other?
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My brother in Ontario was starting up an action/horror-fetish movie production co. & pay site back in '97-98. I came on board to recruit and manage the talent, including doing all of the test shoots. He'd place an ad and I would field, qualify, and process over 300 to 500 applicants myself each time. I'd pare them down to maybe 5 or 6, but out of all of that I quickly amassed a sizeable database of girls looking to break into acting and modelling. So I also started up my own site to further promote "my" models, then began adding in other models from all over as well as adding new sites to my network and it steamrolled from there.
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- Did you ever have that "What? Another Canuck in the biz" moment?
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It happened too fast for there to be a single moment like that really. Once I began looking at other similar websites to mine and contacting webmasters for link trades and submitting galleries to TGP's and sites to link lists etc I quickly found out there were a large number of Canadians from all across Canada. Too many to count, but Shemp, Martin, Sleazy, and a few dozen more all come to mind.
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- If you do find there's a heck of a lot of Canadians (although yes there are many people from all over the world), what would you venture explains that?
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For one thing, in the early years (first ten) of the internet being in existence the only country with more people having computers in their homes was the USA. For a while there I seem to recall Canada having more users online per capita than any other country in the world.
We as a group took to the internet quite quickly, were and are very techie-minded to begin with, and with the relative ease back then with which one could make money in adult it came as no surprise at all that the industry very quickly became rife with Canucks --- models especially. It opened up all sorts of new avenues for talent.
For webmasters like myself it was as easy as starting up a bunch of free sites (many on free hosts!), putting up some pretty pictures surrounded by paysite ads, trading a few links with other sites, and sending your traffic off to earn you thousands per week. A guy with a cheesy little bikini site with four thousand uniques per day could earn a nice living back then. Money was flowing everywhere, and last I checked Canadians like money as much as anyone. :D
(not to mention the CAD-USD exchange rate was INSANE back then. Every $1000 US was worth anywhere from $1400 up to over $1550 CAD) |
