While all of this is true (I think streaming is pretty much going to be the way of the future), - and again, I can only speak for myself here -, but this is kinda what I was talking about before. A lot of us offer differing file sizes, membership sites, and all of that other stuff you guys say you want. I've given away clips for free, experimented with differing pricing models, run sales with ridiculous discounts, given away free clips, and just recently reduced the prices on a lot of my older material to literally a few dollars a clip on my KinkBomb store. None of it has generated an increase in sales. And before you say "lol make better videos", all of the feedback I've gotten from actual paying customers has been resoundingly positive. People who actually watch my stuff enjoy it.
People talk up a constant game about how producers need to do more. Our stuff is too big, too expensive, too not whatever it is you can think of and it all justifies piracy so we have to just deal with it. But the fact is, even when we accommodate what people say they want it doesn't cause them to suddenly open up their wallets, it just causes them to move the goalposts and find something else to complain about.
I have nearly a hundred different clips in my Membership site and you can watch them all for $30. Clips4Sale's memberships are non-recurring, which means you can sign up, binge the entire thing, and then forget about it and you won't be charged again. You'd be surprised at how few people actually do that, despite it literally evening out to less than a dollar a clip. Even if all you do is watch two or three of the lengthier, more expensive videos it pays for itself.
SoleMates, the problem is not the quality of the clips....companies put out the same amount of great and not great clips as they always did. It's just the reality of technology at the moment.
Anyone who says "just make better clips", that's not why they are not buying them. They're not buying them because they can get them for free....if not your clips, someone else's. People who say that to you never bought clips in the first place. It's modern convenience, and we all use it so let's not kid ourselves.
As I said....membership sites are spotty.....they may have 30 clips, but I end up only wanting two. Ultimately, I want a variety of ticklers, styles, models.....no company has it all. Never has. Never will. Maybe you should all band together and make one big streaming site.....but streaming sucks, I can't stream on this computer that I'm using right now. I can only watch stuff if I download it.
What I don't like..and I have to say this to SoleMates and other producers I've seen adopt this attitude.....is being referred to as "you guys"......"I give you what you guys tell me what you want"....that is a fundamental misunderstanding of this fetish, and maybe all fetishes. I don't know who told you what I want.....but I can assure you, most video clips I see DON'T give me what I want. Starting with that
stupid fucking hairbrush that every company uses, don't even get me started. We're not some monolithic group of people, who all voted on what to tell you what we want. First of all, my hope is that you already know what we want; the people I want making these videos are people who understand the fetish, who have it themselves. Just because one person writes you and says "use a ballgag", does not mean that we
all want to see girls with ballgags. (not that that's what you do in your clips, just using that as an example). So please.....no more "we give you people what you said you wanted".
I'll give you an example. I think Darth Sidious started doing more F/F because "the people" said that's what they wanted. But I don't like F/F so much. I like M/F. So.....guess what? Now I am not nearly as interested in his clips as I used to be! But that's just me. Obviously some prefer F/F. So there's no "you people". People aren't not buying your clips to punish you!
(for the record, SoleMates, just want you to know: I DID buy all of those Priti clips, at least the first batch, and I thought they were really good clips so....I definitely have put money in your pocket and was completely satisfied with my purchases, just want to put that out there, I endorse those clips, and thank you!) (And no, if those clips have been pirated, it most definitely was not me!)
There's also one thing I haven't seen mentioned: there are a lot of people making these clips now! This isn't 2003, where there was about 10 companies making them, if that. There are many companies that I like and buy from........but I can't keep them all afloat, and I don't think there's enough of us to keep them all afloat. So, there's that too...you guys have more competition amongst each other, as well as from You Tube and Porn Hub and whatever else streams your stuff.
