I always get a kick out of how little regard some video companies (meaning adult companies who primarily are known for and make their money off of DVD/retail sales) have for the online segment of the industry. Some of them think that online content isn't real content, that just by being produced for the internet, it's automatically inferior to what is produced for online. This higher than thou attitude some video producers have when comparing themselves to online producers.
I think that has a lot to do with why some video companies that attempt to start making money in the online market mess up doing it so much. Have sites that just don't sell or retain, have no idea how to run or manage an affiliate program, have no idea what the best way to deliver their content is or effectively operate a paysite/vod service/etc.
Just kind of an amusing anecdote about it all... within the last year we had a model working for us that did a few scenes. Not even one of our primary models. 3 scenes and that was it. He had been in some DVDs for a rather large DVD company before coming to work for us, but we decided not to use his stagename he had before and switched it to a name we felt fit our site and his image better. After appearing on our site, his old porn name was practically forgotten as everyone just new him by the name he had on our site and referred to him as that.
He ended up doing a video for an even larger video/DVD company, using his new name (given by us), and I ran in to someone from that company and the subject of the model came up and the guy was like "It will be interesting for him when his DVD comes out and people start recognizing him on the street because he's in this big release now."
Well... the video came out in the summer and since then, according to the model, he's only ever been recognized on the street and online as "XXXXX from CorbinFisher". That he's yet to run in to anyone that's recognized him from this "big video from this major company". He was even the DVD's cover model.
I've yet to mention that to the guy from the video company . And kept the company and models name outta this post so as not to rub it in.
I mean I'm not trying to sound snooty. I just think that some of these big video companies need to appreciate the fact that us online producers are very well capable of delivering faces and content to consumers above and beyond what they're capable of.
Anyways, just had to vent, because I just got done reading a quote by another person from another video company about a former model of ours and how they will now be a big star because they're doing all these DVDs for them. Something to the effect of "Now that he's making real movies, he can really become famous", like being a model for an online producer simply doesn't offer that potential.
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