What's gone wrong with porn?

ecchi · 2012-07-30, 04:48 AM

Although I still do porn, the majority of my money comes from non-porn websites. However I think the main problem with porn is that people are too set in their ways and doing the same thing that worked for them five years ago. Things change, I used to make most of my money selling website memberships, nowadays the majority of my adult money comes from selling porn eBooks. However despite the fact that I mention this often (and have had my affiliate program as my signature for ages) I rarely see other adult webmasters using this revenue stream. They all believe that the old model will continue to work, and that the 1990's are still with us.

I think the best comparison I can come up with is this: When I moved into the area I now live in, there was a video rental store around the corner from me. DVDs were just beginning to become very popular, but had not overtaken videos. So the guy who ran this shop decided to stick with videos, and not start stocking these "new fangled" DVDs. He went out of business years ago. And that is what most adult webmasters are doing, selling video tapes in a DVD/Blue Ray world. Those that innovate, those that realise it is now 2012, and you cannot even do things the way you did them in 2011, let alone the way you did them in the 1990s, they will survive. But those sticking to old models (sadly the majority) have either given up already or are moaning and whining that there is no longer any money to be made in porn - those WMs, although they don't realise it, are dead men walking.

housekeeper · 2012-07-30, 04:55 PM

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Originally Posted by ecchi

those sticking to old models (sadly the majority) have either given up already or are moaning and whining that there is no longer any money to be made in porn.

I'm not hearing webmasters openly discussing current sales trends or innovative techniques that are in use. I thought mobile delivery would be the next wave, but I'm not yet seeing that fully blossom. Watching sex being performed on film has not changed a whole lot in my view, the delivery methods certainly have. I started watching porn on 16mm loops using my fathers Bell & Howell projector, so whatever the re-invention of the wheel is, I'm all ears.

2012-07-30, 04:48 AM	#1
ecchi Banned Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: About to be evicted!!!! Posts: 4,082	Although I still do porn, the majority of my money comes from non-porn websites. However I think the main problem with porn is that people are too set in their ways and doing the same thing that worked for them five years ago. Things change, I used to make most of my money selling website memberships, nowadays the majority of my adult money comes from selling porn eBooks. However despite the fact that I mention this often (and have had my affiliate program as my signature for ages) I rarely see other adult webmasters using this revenue stream. They all believe that the old model will continue to work, and that the 1990's are still with us. I think the best comparison I can come up with is this: When I moved into the area I now live in, there was a video rental store around the corner from me. DVDs were just beginning to become very popular, but had not overtaken videos. So the guy who ran this shop decided to stick with videos, and not start stocking these "new fangled" DVDs. He went out of business years ago. And that is what most adult webmasters are doing, selling video tapes in a DVD/Blue Ray world. Those that innovate, those that realise it is now 2012, and you cannot even do things the way you did them in 2011, let alone the way you did them in the 1990s, they will survive. But those sticking to old models (sadly the majority) have either given up already or are moaning and whining that there is no longer any money to be made in porn - those WMs, although they don't realise it, are dead men walking.