dualnexus said:
In the modern age of the Internet, it seems like paid subscription services are better reserved for sites that offer TONS of diverse content. These days, your porn content has to compete with thousands of free services, like e hentai, you porn, etc. A smarter business model would probably be to use an ad network. I don't know if Google adsense allows porn sites, but if not there has to be some alternative. No paid subscriptions means your site will get more hits, increasing its ad revenue in turn. At least that's my opinion. I'm not a business expert, but it makes the most sense as far as I can tell. If someone has data proving the contrary, I'm not married to my opinion lol
Sites such as rule34.xxx are also massively declining in revenue duo to the sole point of revenue being advertisements and the rise of adblockers. Tons of people feel entitled to use our service without contributing to help keep our service online. Its argued that ads shouldn't be the sole income but clearly subscriptions aren't working out either?
The most bizarre thing i see is the adblock users encourage other users to install/use adblock. That completely blows my mind since the only reason the site can stay online is because of the few (less then 50% now!) that doesn't actually use adblock.
Its like you go to a restaurant, then dine and dash even though the food was amazing! Then stand outside and encourage everyone who goes inside to also dine and dash until the restaurant goes bankrupt. #logic