Democratisation of Media

[miz_wright]

Originally Posted by rhetorical

They treated customers like surfers, ripped off millions, and left the building.

So the question I am getting at is this: How do we* repair that damage to the customers' image of us? How do we get past the training we've given them that they will be taken for a ride down the shit highway?

Where do we add value to the content that makes it compelling again?

*user of 'we" indicates industry solidarity, not specific corporate affiliations, kthx. This is all LIZ thinking out loud.

[softball]

I would start directly with the traffic "managers" (and I use the term loosely). Fuck off with all the crapola, and get back to the basics. When you offer something, you are, in fact promising a service or product. When I click on a blonde girl with a black bra and high heels, deliver. Not a granny in a corset. When you break your promises as much as these guys have (wtf is a skim and why does it even exist?) you will lose your potential customer.
I like the concept of tgp 2 with honesty. Deliver on promises.
However, big sponors (big????not so sure anymore) encourage bad behaviour. However, if....and this is a big if....they were as smart as a bunch of Arabs in the middle of nowhere up to their Kafias in sand (opec), they would see opportunities in co operation like any other industry. XBiz awards and all that shite are pure and simple bullshit. They mean zero and they should fold their fucking tents. Those kinds of resources and centralization need to be redirected into sorting out the biz. GFY and Netpond (the current Titanic) JBM should have long past their sell by date. They contribute to the pretzel logic that is porn. The so called webmasters that post on those forums are not part of the solution. They are the problem.
Its a solution I have been screaming about for years and have been shut down every time. So I just dusted it off, and shook it out one more time.
The curious thing is that a few small steps would effect a rather large change.
I walk up a lot of mountains in my day to day and this eighty year old guy on telemark skis, on Mt. Baker told me, deep in a blizzard that the peak wasn't that high if you took small steps. We made it to height that I never thought possible and stood at the top up to our assholes in snow and I have never felt so good. So it is possible.

[tony404]

watch it only once? Guys dont work that way. When I used porn, I bought dirty debutantes 1 and used it over and over til I wore the tape out. lol That's where adult makes a mistake they think if I give a full scene or two away on a tube, they will jack off and automatically want more.When actually that guy could jerk off happily to that one scene for a long time.
Also we are very different than the music industry because we cant go on tour.
We have always remembered without the customer we are nothing. Most in adult have a very short term thinking so its fuck them and move on. I got a possible member write my wife asking her to promise they were no hidden prechecks when he signed up because he got fucked hard before.