Have Conventional Porn Producers Lost Their Footing??
From www.GoFuckYourself.com and www.AdultBeat.com

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Content is King
by Duke Floored (send email to Duke Floored)

Brad Shaw of freshphotos.com writes on GFY: Amusing to see how many people still do not get that. Cheap penny pinchers still using 1997 Zmaster content.


Few smart people are catching on and will stay above the curve. Just be careful who you hire to produce content for you, I hear horror stories daily.

FYI, video is an entirely different beast. There is shooting it, then getting it online. I would not hire anyone who can now show me ALOT of quality work. Custom photo is going way of dinosaur.

Charly writes: The future will be interesting for video, firstly the Acacia situation, then what will happen to all the video shooters when the Porn Video mainstream wake up to this market.

Brad Shaw writes: They are idiots. I am always impressed with their lack of professionalism when I see them in Vegas. I am not worried about them.

Mutt writes: it's happening now, see http://www.meatcash.com

but most are still focused on their core biz of producing content for retail and other markets. most do not have the resources or time to do both the Internet and the traditional movie biz. Some are deciding the Net offers more promise and are putting their energies into it.

only certain movie content works well on the Net. Features don't, people want hardcore extreme gonzo on the Net not with plot lines and dialogue and lame plots and acting. just balls to the wall hardcore. if it's got a reality angle to it that's better.

studios are starting to make nice money via PPV streaming and VOD Downloads. it's a good time to be a movie studio that is cranking out gonzo.

Brad Shaw writes: There will always be some demand for stills. As Mutt said Fresh Photos photographer has moved out of adult, he could not make $. And he was pretty good...... He was not able to adapt with video, he was a still guy, and still is.

Dig420 writes: it's not the content, it's how you package it on your tour. surfers don't recognize and don't care about new girls.

BVF writes: It's 2004. They should have gotten on the ball around 2000. There is no way in HELL a strictly retail video producer could come in and compete with video shooters who have done nothing but internet video for years.