[Vick]

Here's somewhere we differ

Some of you look at the existing model of TGP and think well it's not the best but it's where the market is

My perspective is it's a bad business model

I really think we'll hit an impasse of the show as I'd be in favor of TGP's shutting down and changing over to text only links to sponsors - yeah I'm a radical living in a dream world but ... porn consumers would be forced to buy, not freeload

Look at the one of the prevalent revenue models of TGP's (and I admire this purely for the revenue generation aspect of it)
Selling ad space in the form of links to a webmasters gallery. Don't think any TGP owner is the Mother Teresa of Porn and these are businessmen trying to maximize profits
Leap in logic is that the selling of links generates more (and steady) revenue than actual links to sponsors

Why/how did that happen? Did that model come into place because TGP site owners weren't generating the revenues they had previously so they switched, or was it to generate more and steady revenue?

Chicken and the egg?

I've already given an alternative here also, with means to work all the traffic


Something else to think about
Are TGP's the welfare of porn? Here it's all free. Get something for nothing?
Or are they a viable marketing method?

Gonzo you've asked a few times about getting 1k - 2k hits to a paysite with other than TGP traffic
What is the average TGP conversion 1 in 1,000 - 1 in 2,000?
If that is the average is it worth the effort?
Obviously if you can get better mileage of it it ....... it can be worth it