Originally Posted by celandina

I am not an expert but I run my site and make content for it since 2003.... I even used to go to conventions Las Vegas, Berlin and Prague ( mostly).. you could meet and discuss business with: modelling agencies, distributors and marketers from " far away" countries, fellow producers ( yes, I have even done a coproduction), tech companies pitching everything from cameras and the like to editing and other software, payment processors and even a few investors and on it went....

Then in about 2013.... new "beasts" shown up... affiliates, click thru add companies, dating crooks... and the "traditionals" had less and less to meet and talk about.. So I have stopped wasting time and money. A few years later OF chatter companies or similar has shown up and that was the end of the business as it was known...

I do NOT even know when it happened but everything is now " affiliate" conferences and even a chick with a cell phone in her bedroom who diddles herself is called a creator.

Look even here, everybody is selling recycled content and the new stuff is just ugly tattooed, plastic and botox enhanced women and "meat and potato" fucking not worth even looking at.

Over the years I have said here and elsewhere " content is king", but now there is very little of real content being created.