Timon ,
I have said this before , the porn business reminds me of a documentary on Emerald mining in Columbia.
One ot two large corporations sitting at the top of the hill pulling the huge gems out corporately and then a load of poor bastards sifting the mud at the bottom of the hill trying to find the tiny gems left in the sludge.
With discussions over "what shall we do with Oprano" I've realised most of the old school players have gone or moved on to non porn.
When I owned Netpond there were 30 affiliate proggies making $1m a week and maybe 100 programes total.
Now there is prolly 5- 10 making a million a week and 1000 scabbling over the rest.
I am a traffic whore.I deliver traffic to the highest bidder.
For the longest while it has not been worth my while to send traffic to porn.I think most major traffic whores have found more profitable markets to send traffic to than porn.
Porn is left trying to convert TGP skim and general garbage freeloading surfer traffic
is porn dead? No fucking way?
Are profit margins shrinking? Absolutely
A lot of the focus of people who I respect in this business is non porn.
Porn as a business bores me to tears. It is not like it was in 97 when there were new marketing ideas coming out etc etc.
Non porn however excites the crap out of me.
I am a traffic whore who sends to the highest bidder.
Porn does not even come in the top 5 of places I can send traffic to.But if I send traffic to porn it may one day affect5 my ability to send traffic to nonporn.
a valid fear.
ah well I've wittered on enough...but it is interesting seeing from others response that I not alone