Comments on: Are Tube Sites More Scapegoat Than Threat

By: MikeSouth

MikeSouth — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 18:38:15 +0000

Easy JimmyD

Our model lives and dies by credit cards with card companies tighter on issuing cards, lowering credit limits and with the tough economic times we are seeing a proportionate number of failed rebills, which is to be expected. My revenues have dropped only slightly though.

Others are trying to appeal to a mass audience and are buying content from content brokers that a dozen other sites also have are gonna fail.

Niche oriented sites shooting original content on the other hand are doing fine for the most part and that ties in with whjat I said about bukkake. It isnt just that niche but almost all of porn these days is aimed at vertical markets, niches if you will. If you have a foot fetish why would you buy a Barefoot Confidential DVD when theres dozens of sites producing that fetish with a hundred times the content for the buck.

Actually it may be us web porners that are shooting ourselves in the foot.

By: jimmyd

jimmyd — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 18:23:02 +0000

Gee, Mikey, that sounds so simplistically logical. But then, why are so many of the web guys crying the blues with their revenues in the toilet as well?

By: MikeSouth

MikeSouth — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 08:02:33 +0000

Well honestly you probably arent my target niche anyway, I dont shoot porn chicks, most of the girls I shoot are complete amateurs and I shoot a lot of them. Most of them wont be seen on other sites and of the ones that are I generally have their only hardcore content.

Not that I’d thumb my nose at a Kayden Kross Bukkake. Look at Felecia Fox for example, she did 3 for me and they did well, no doubt because nobody else has anything even close to that with Felicia. But my bread and butter is girls like Debbie Leigh, Morgan, Destiny Love, Taylor, and over a hundred more

By: backspace

backspace — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 06:39:37 +0000

ya i can dig that. but the problem i see is how you find ways to be creative with those two updates. i mean dude if you had kayden doing bukkake she could probably retain my interest for three months (maybe more sorry kayden) but then you lose me unless my new blonde flavor of the month (lena nicole) happens to sign off on bukkake right after kayden which is unlikely. i think the first option’s rate and amount of content you propose is fair. if you can find ways to be creative week in week out then you got a good chance of standing out from other sites.

the truth is doing blogs like this on the side is really good too because your following will only get bigger assuming you don’t start sounding repetitive, old and cranky (which you and the rest don’t). That following will translate into almost blind loyalty in some cases.

anything we can do to help let us know. peace.

By: MikeSouth

MikeSouth — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 06:10:01 +0000

Actually you are, because you are honest. Poerners don’t get that often but you most likely represent the average porn consumer. I doubt any site has a retention length of a year for all but a very small percentage of its members.

The answer may be to move away from mega content to maintaining less content overall and rotating it in and out along with the new shoots. Of course a lower price helps make that more palatable.

How would you feel about ten bucks a month with 2 updates a week, one brand new and one old that hasnt been up for say 6 months or a year maintaining a 30 or 60 day backlog of updates at most?

By: backspace

backspace — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 05:59:23 +0000

you’re probably on to something but i’m just a consumer so i wouldn’t know. when i first got into online porn three years ago i subscribed to one of those milf sites and for like a couple days i ended up watching/downloading maybe half the content. then i get bored, canceled my subscription and moved on to another fetish. but there’s so many hot chicks and different genres that I can’t stay loyal to one site for more than a month. i’m now watching she-males. FU*CKING SHE-MALES MAN!! Never in a hundred years did i ever think to myself hey maybe i’ll watch Nacho and Belladonna fuck a tranny today.

the internet medium is here to stay. those tube sites are here to stay too unfortunately. I suppose one obstacle is how one can maintain loyal subscribers that will stay for at least a year. after a week of milfs it’s time to move on. sorry mike. i don’t think i’m much help.