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Thanks for the reply Jay.
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Shap, when will a majority of users be ready for 4k resolution video?
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X-art did it right and to be fair I don't believe their scenes cost them what it costs their competitors. Why? Because they are shooting it themselves. That imo is a HUGE advantage. It is the advantage that really gave Ftv a leg up years ago as well. When the owner is shooting his own content the costs change dramatically and competing against that is very hard (from a cost perspective). I don't feel any site can start up and spend an average of 9k per scene and break even. It would be one thing for Twistys or Nubiles to use their massive member engine to power a site like that up. But straight out of the gate the way X-Art did NO WAY. The numbers just don't add up imo. |
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you still doing this? when you left twistys how many active affiliates would you say there were? (active as in getting a check/paxum payout at least once every few months)? also, the m&m store in london - thoughts? as a foreigner (i assume you're not from here originally?), stupid or worth a visit for any tourist in london? |
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There is an additional cost of getting the best models first, but it is just a small part of the budget. Most of the agents (in the USA) will send me, Dean, Holly and the Hicks crew the great girls first because they know the brand new inexperienced girls with be treated well and made to look as good as possible. It is their way of easing them into the crazy industry. BTW I have a blog with lots of Behind The Scenes shots that show my lighting and camera setups www.nakedinla.com for anyone that is interested :) |
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I love that camera dolly system. Who makes that one? I have a buddy with a jib and that thing is cool as hell to use. I noticed that it appears you are shooting from 6 to 10 feet away and using zoom to get the close shots? Is that what I should be doing shooting with DSLR? Back when I used vid cams I never used the zoom and just physically moved in close and back. Should I be changing up my shooting style and using the zoom more? |
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Here are a couple samples with that lens.. http://www.jayallan.com/samples/gfy/JayAllangfy0211.jpg http://www.jayallan.com/samples/gfy/JayAllangfy0210.jpg |
The reason I asked is because on your monitor it shows a close up shot from your "A" camera that looks to be about 10 feet back. Thanks for clarifying that.
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Hey Shap, pleased to meet you :)
Is it true that with the proposed sale of YouPorn to Manwin, this gave you the confidence to sell twistys to them? And in adult folklore, it's told that once, you were in a poker game and 30-60 seconds, you would get an email notification of a new member joining your site? Please tell me that's true!! |
I know you love Fat Duck (jelly of all your times there BTW) and travel lots, so what's your favourite restaurant ever? =)
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why are all the producers now shooting the same stuff over and over?
Same talent doing the same thing on the x-art rip off sites. Jumping on the wanna be film maker band wagon with DSLR's I have also noticed how producers are shooting many scenes with the same talent slight different location in the same house for PassionHD and Nubilesfilms. Who pays for the content PassionHD or Nubiles? Isn't that unethical? Seriously who wants to see the same guy fuck the same girls over and over in the same style shoots on every website? Absolutely no creativity and porn producers who think they can really direct. What a joke. The foreign content and models are far better than the American stuff. X-ART is the one and only original of this style. Period. |
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Super Rica Taqueria in Santa Barabara. Awesome little dive taco place. Best tacos i've had Katsuya my fav sushi place Burgers Priest best Burger Prime 112 skirt steak my fav steak Miami Juice best healthy lunch |
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I wish the YP sale gave me the confidence. Our discussions/negotiations happened simultaneously from what I was told. I knew there was another acquisition in the works but didn't know it was you. ohhhh I wish that story were true. That is AWESOME. |
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Rip off and copy cat sites have been around forever in our biz and desperate times call for desperate measures. Truth is I don't ever remember a copy cat blowing up and becoming bigger than the original. Have any of you? Maybe i'm wrong. You are only in trouble if you have a great idea and a big company comes in and copies you. Then you are screwed. Even then it doesn't always work. Babes.com was supposed to ripoff xart how did that work out? I agree with you. But there is one important thing you are forgetting. Let's say I shoot a girl that x-art shoots for my site. It's a similar scene and similar end product. Yes it's the same but the member may not know that the other exists and wants to see that girl. I grew huge on non exclusive content because of that very reason. 200 sites all had the same content and we smoked them all because we delivered it differently and packaged it the right way not to mention we picked the right content :thumbsup |
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Almighty Shap, I'd love to have your insights too :1orglaugh :1orglaugh
Which way does the wind blow? No seriously, what do you think this industry will look like in 10 years? |
how many active members do the top porn sites have ?
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Shap, why do you like Gary Vaynerchuk so much? I like him too, but a bit loony and works through brute force.
Why Gary Vaynerchuk Is Flat Out Wrong Yet, you watch many if not all of his videos, I can guess but what aspects of his personality draw you in the most? Yes, I crawled up your ass smelled around, studied you for a bit but just thought of this offhand as Gary is starting to get more attention now. :) |
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Tough to say. I haven't been out of the biz for 3 years now and I haven't seen actual sales figures of any of the companies so I may not be the best to say. A few things I can say. There is so much porn being consumed for free that there is a greater and larger porn audience than ever before. The problem is (much like the app community) it's an audience that has been taught they don't have to pay to get decent quality and enormous quantity content. So bigger audience than ever but one that has the expectation that it should be free. To make money there will probably be two options. One have an outstanding product that is worth paying for or have a great sales hook and then rape the hell out of the credit card. One big problem I see is banking. Porn has always been an undesirable business for reputable banks. I can see the next few years being a very hard road to travel from a banking perspective. To be honest the banking hassles are one of the reasons the industry isn't as attractive to me as it once was. |
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The message he's been pushing for the past 10 years is almost exactly everything we did to be successful. It may not work for all but my approach to business, this industry, treating customers and clients, dealing with the public was very similar. I appreciate where he's coming from. I know it works. As you said it clearly isn't for everyone. Doesn't work for everyone. But it worked for me and I like listening to where he thinks things are going now :) |
Hey Shap, I have a tube site opportunity for you. I am doing it anyway but with some investment it could become huge within a year. Simply no other tube site is currently doing what I am planning.
It's a shame about Sextube but this could be a way of topping that site's success. Reach out if interested. :) |
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I'm not sure even Brazzers or RK would have 100,000 members, I'll never know but I'd say considerably less now. |
Happy Holidays Shap'ster! Hope you and the family are well :thumbsup
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I flew to Las Vegas last month to open a business bank account. They happily opened it. I flew back and a week later it was closed. No reason given. Then I drove to Buffalo the morning of the historic snowstorm, making sure I didn't miss a day. Many banks were closed, but we were able to deal with 2 banks. One of them opened an account for us on the spot and we've had no problems so far. The other just got back to me today and said they were "sorry, but..." Now we have to go back to open a secondary account, because having only one is short sighted. |
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The only answer is... Be the bank... ;-)) |
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There are still places doing 3000 joins...a day. But as bobx used to say "hahahaha in the dark". ;-)) |
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lol i offered you your own domain - like one you already owned? or one i owned? |
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$$$ for custom coding since this tube will need to do things other tubes do not yet do but I know are doable. $$$ for 3-4 employees. My current Team can handle organic growth but not if we take it to the next level quickly. Something radical: an ethical tube site with true content partners (and no user uploads). A tube site a struggling Industry can get behind and support. A tubesite that supports the only place new content comes from: paysites. No cannibalization, no bait-and-switch, no traffic re-directs, a true partnership. But I will leave the real juicy details for a private conversation. :) PS: I also have an "ace in the hole" when it comes to building the site that will help establish it within a very short time. :) |
Ask Me Anything ;)
Well, here goes. . . I am sure you have heard of water marking videos My Question comes from the out side, after getting permission to re-watermark videos from a source and then getting banned from by copywright DMCA and then seeing the same videos on the most popular tube sites what is really going on ? Pay to play? ole buddy system? Wish I was back in the day makin loot, manwin fucked me pretty hard and who Moved my cheese? |
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How are you today? :)
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Assume I own Twistys and you want my videos. I give them to you to cut and upload to the tubes. If you watermark them it should be with a domain/site that is entirely twistys based. If you want to work with me and my videos I'm all for that. But don't use my videos to then turn around and send your visitors to another site or even worse to a competitor. Use my content to sell my stuff and I think everyone (including the surfer) is happy. |
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I would love some of your time to discuss this idea. Maybe you could give some direction, contacts, insights, etc. We would be willing to discuss % for this consultation, too. porn nerd cash AT Gmail if you would like to discuss. |
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How many times a week do you pleasure yourself?
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Anyone else knows? |
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ie, $6 million gross monthly all year round? |
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