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Did I miss an announcement or something?
I cannot get to the Maxpixels website. Is this content provider another casualty of the free porn movement and the bad economy? Ohh and should I add 2257 to the list?
They had some great content.
If the secondary producer requirements are revised in the future, it would be nice to think that Maxpixels would be open for business.
I think so :( The site has been down for a while already. The first time I noticed that it was down was in september 2009.Quote:
Originally Posted by coctronic
There was an announcement about the site script suffering a major breakdown, and they decided to put DonMike's time and talents to other areas of the RandyBlue Empire, rather than try and repair it.
Yeah they have been gone for a while :(
If you are looking for some image content though, make sure you checkout Rainbow Content in addition to Ounique and also http://www.allgayprovider.com
Incidently, we added a bunch of new sets to Rainbow Content late last year :)
Regards,
Lee
I talked to DonMike about MaxPixels a few months back... they had technical issues (not legal or whatever might float around) and like Bec said they decided to devote Don's time to other venues of Randy Blues' rather than reconstruct maxpixels.... something I regret deeply.
Rainbowcontent is a great source, as in allgayprovider and ounique ...
That reminds me... I owe you a couple of 2257 docs :)Quote:
Originally Posted by DEVELISH
Regards,
Lee
yes... I am on an off on the internet these days as I am travelling back and forth in turkey... will let you know when I am back home
I think maxpixels is closed
Do you think that Maxpixels' reason to close was that most of the content was from European primary producers, with European IDs and Passports in their 2257 docs?
before maxpixels went down, i bought content. content was bought before i came into the office and the 2257's were accurate.
i got an email before they were closing, they could not manage it anymore because they wanted to devote all their staff people to randyblue and they were having turnovers a lot.
i would never believe maxpixels shut down for legal stuff because if they did belator was their main company. it would have shut down too and belator runs randy blue. if they shut down for that reason one would think they would fold all together.
Enjoy your travels, you lucky devil!Quote:
Originally Posted by DEVELISH
The partner ounique is closing too at the end of this month.
What is going on with the industry? So many sites are closing these days - affiliate programs, paysites and webmaster sites...
Monster affiliate sites are de-democratizing search engine SEO, and the ability of consumers to maintain loyalty to destination sites.
Once monster affiliate sites go away, and stop giving away long length previews, the sooner content producers and content distributors will have control over customer loyalty and content rights.
What is or was the domain of that?Quote:
Originally Posted by nickbaer
LOL...
What's going on is the industry is taking a major hit.
A lot of the programs are screwing the affiliates for a profitable gain.
Onique announced over 2 years ago they were closing shop, they didn't announce when.
Other programs are going under because they were giving away too much like $200+ per signup.
The small programs are going under.
Those who operate tube sites... There's over 1/2 your answer. Why pay when you can get it for free in a consumer stand point.
The industry is going under. Everyone from the very huge players to the very small guys are hurting. This is why if you sit down and look, producers aren't purchasing much anymore, the big studios who said they'd never provide memberships are now diving into selling memberships.
Look at the shows... AVN in Hollywood, FL was practicly dead this past weekend compared to where it was years ago.
Not as many went to the Phoenix Forum, etc.
Sit back and take a look and research, you will see the adult industry is down 50% if not more from a few years back.
Maxpixels closed because their primary focus has always been Randy Blue / BlueLoot. They didn't have the manpower to associate the three programs or operations. Their decision to close Maxpixels was to designate all of their attention to Randy Blue / BlueLoot which was a success for them as RB continued to grow further.Quote:
Originally Posted by nickbaer
But, his hypothesis on the affiliate/content store relationship is still correct, affiliates can get whatever content they want for free these days from the sponsors they are promoting, which, not only hurt content stores businesses but the industry as a whole.
Talking from my own experiences with Rainbow Content, i have seen a drastic downturn in revenue from the store over the past 3 years, i used to be able to pull in a good $1500+ a month with very little work selling close to 100 content sets for webmasters to choose from, nowadays, if im pulling in an additional $500 in sales from content, thats a GOOD month.
The proliferation of readily available, high quality, full length free content in the adult industry has hurt everyone, not just affiliate revenues, but content providers, program owners, exclusive producers, even hosting companies (they've had to lower prices to remain competitive) so it isn't just affiliates being hit hard...
Of course, the economy currently has its part to play in our collective dwindling profits, but for the most part, we've done this to ourselves and only have ourselves to blame because we became greedy in a market place that was over-saturated with programs, and under-served with 'real' affiliates.
Regards,
Lee
affilaites aren't buying content
shit i'm not even building sites or buying content im just buying traffic and then a lot of it isn't going to porn sites much nowadays
Yup, because most of them cant actually afford to these days since their earnings took a dump because of the proliferation of free content they asked their affiliate programs for has actually done the opposite of what they all thought it would.. Make them more money lolQuote:
Originally Posted by jIgG
Regards,
Lee
so content is cheap?
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