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Originally Posted by Porno Dan
We put out DVDs becasue it's the only way we can get broadcast and foreign rights deals is if you make DVDs; the buyers won't look at scenes off the net.
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I just thought about that for a few minutes...
You know, the buyers are making a pretty big mistake in that regard too.
They don't realize that they are missing some of the best porn being produced today...and some of the most popular. The internet scenes are seen by millions. And the girls in them have huge fan bases that totally eclipse DVD stuff (though that is changing as more and more DVD's feature the girls from the net for that very reason)
It kinda reminds me of the being in a magazine illusion in girls' heads. Seems like a lot of porn girls all have this fantasy notion that if they get on the cover of an adult men's mag that they are THEN big stars. I try to tell them that yeah...25 years ago that might have been true. But today more people will see them on their website in one day than there would even be issues of that magazine printed for the month.
But yet that perception remains.
Same thing with DVD's. When I put CM on Streamate to do paid camshows...Shawn asked me what DVD's Claudia-Marie has appeared on. I told him the DVD's that she has not only appeared on but was on the cover of including a couple of Naughty America ones a couple of I Digital ones and one that we released with IVD ourselves.
After I showed those to him he was like: Okay cool! Now we can put her in the "pornstar" section! lol
And that was after he had already asked me to have her come on board to Streamate BECAUSE of her popularity.
So that perception that being on DVD somehow makes it more "legit" definitely still hovers over the whole business, even though the DVD brick and mortar business is pretty much dead while the internet exposure is getting bigger and bigger.