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Tickling Content. Lend me your thoughts.

anchientstar

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As someone who uses the internet and obviously will watch tickling content, I'm watching a lot of videos from various websites.
Of course as most of you would, Pornhub and the likes are where ill go.

HOWEVER.

As someone who was in the territory of films, I am intruged as to how everyone else thinks about this:

Big productions. Russian Fetish, Tickle abuse and the likes. The big names. Plenty of content on Pornhub and other websites FREE OF CHARGE. Not uploaded by them. Somebody different.
Discord, reddit, OneDrive, Google drive and the likes, all storing videos and some being leaked out.

Amateur videos that are hella good being taken and offered by someone else.

To me, this is content being stolen. (I mean obviously I'm an asshole and still watch some of it). That being said I've paid for my fair share too. Even subscriptions every once and a while.
But, that being said. Holy cow its expensive. I definitely cannot afford what $20 - $30 bucks a month for 1 studio? I mean netflix is 1/3 of that price.

To those who watch - Do you feel its an obligation to have more free content?

To those who take and re upload - Why? Do you feel justified?

To those who create - I assume your stance is similar to mine. But I'd love to hear your thoughts.

The issue is, this has become a type of norm. That a lot of content "Should" be free. You may not know, but it can take hours, days, weeks, months to create a simple 5- 10 minute video.
It can take tens, hundreds even thousands of dollars to create a film. Not just hiring models, but equipement, software and even the time they take.

I love tickle videos, and if I could, Id definitely have tried to produce.
I know we can't only watch amateur films, ones that will always be free. And this will forever be an arguement continuing on till the end of time. But Its always wonderful reading the debate.

But otherwise heres a legendary plan.

ClipsForSale. But Netflix.

A subscription to watch hundreds of thousands of tickle videos.
Ofc select few, those that I "the platform" Can afford. Its the dream.

Anyway I've stired the pot. Tell me your thoughts!
 
I'm a fan of OnlyFans and pateron because when you subscribe you have all the clips/images and then you can message the content creators. Kind of makes it more personal and adds some value. Thats why we decided to go that route. But we're also not a company, so maybe subscriptions work better for just a couple.

I'm not sure why illegally downloaded clips get posted to sites like pornhub, do the people who post them get paid? Whats the benefit to that person I wonder.
 
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that's actually an interesting idea- Tickling Streaming Service? I think that would be really cool!
 
that's actually an interesting idea- Tickling Streaming Service? I think that would be really cool!

Makes sense. Why pay for Snow White when I can just purchase Disney+ and get them all. Seems everything is going to subscriptions.
 
that's actually an interesting idea- Tickling Streaming Service? I think that would be really cool!

What people fail to understand about streaming revenue is that it requires viewership in the six to seven figure range to make any kind of decent money off of it. Some sites like ManyVids and PornHub do in fact allow creators to earn money this way, but I'd be surprised if even the big content creators could pull in enough viewers to make it worth their while. I know one studio that posts their videos for streamable revenue on ManyVids and the best month they've had earned them a little less than three dollars. Thousands of views get you a few cents. Those (pirated) videos on PornHub with 15k views? That might be worth five bucks, tops.

Streaming is only viable once you start talking Pewdiepie-level viewership. IE, in the millions. Riley Reid can do that. The top studios in our niche? Pocket change at best.
 
You have research to back this up my dude?
I am actually aware that the majority of streamers incomes are sponsorships and (using twitch as an example) monthly subscribers

I believe you're thinking more along the lines of YouTube which indeed even those with millions of subscribers rough it out making around $1000 - $1500 per video on a multi million viewed video. (According to youtuber Dream on a video. Can send you a link).

However Disney +, netflix etc do not operate like this.
The income for these streaming services are through the monthly payments and ads for those who watch it for free.


So for example:

I pay 3 studios for some of their clips to be uploaded onto my streaming service. A one off payment. Or we discuss an initial payment and a tiny % of the viewers subscription price if they watch their video. (0.005%. Very small)

But the initial payout is where the studios would get thr majority of their money.

As the streaming service if i offered $10 per month of unlimited streaming of all this content it would definitely be more than pocket change.
 
What people fail to understand about streaming revenue is that it requires viewership in the six to seven figure range to make any kind of decent money off of it. Some sites like ManyVids and PornHub do in fact allow creators to earn money this way, but I'd be surprised if even the big content creators could pull in enough viewers to make it worth their while. I know one studio that posts their videos for streamable revenue on ManyVids and the best month they've had earned them a little less than three dollars. Thousands of views get you a few cents. Those (pirated) videos on PornHub with 15k views? That might be worth five bucks, tops.

Streaming is only viable once you start talking Pewdiepie-level viewership. IE, in the millions. Riley Reid can do that. The top studios in our niche? Pocket change at best.

That is a good point. I wouldn't even pretend to be an expert on online business, that's way outside of my area of expertise.
 
However Disney +, netflix etc do not operate like this.
The income for these streaming services are through the monthly payments and ads for those who watch it for free.

Those two examples are multi-billion dollar corporations. They can afford to offer buy up and then offer masses of premium content for $10 a month because they have an enormous global reach and tens of millions of subscribers (hundreds of millions in the case of Netflix).

The tickling fetish is a tiny niche market, not even remotely comparable in terms of scale. In order to make this work, you would need to get a bunch of producers to sell their content at such a low price that it could all be bunched together and then distributed at a tiny fraction of what they would each be selling it for already via their own sites or clip stores - it would be like selling content at 1% of the usual rate. In order to get this to work, there would then need to be a customer base hundreds or thousands of times larger than their own audience - in other words, a typical producer would have to be reaching thousands and thousands more customers than they would be selling to normally.

That simply isn't possible because no matter how great the streaming service is, it wouldn't increase the number of customers that are already out there.


So for example:

I pay 3 studios for some of their clips to be uploaded onto my streaming service. A one off payment. Or we discuss an initial payment and a tiny % of the viewers subscription price if they watch their video. (0.005%. Very small)

But the initial payout is where the studios would get thr majority of their money.

As the streaming service if i offered $10 per month of unlimited streaming of all this content it would definitely be more than pocket change.


In this example, if you had 100 producers putting a load of content on there and you got 1000 subscribers, each paying $10 for a site with several thousand clips, that would make $10,000. Even if you took no cut at all, the producers would still only average $100 a month from this. In reality, there would be significant costs for hosting the content and managing all of the traffic, not to mention building and maintaining a secure site, payment processors with age verification and so on.

This is why this idea just wouldn't work. It's a nice thought and would be a great deal for customers, but it would be completely unprofitable and unworkable from a producer point of view. The market just isn't that big unfortunately.
 
Those two examples are multi-billion dollar corporations. They can afford to offer buy up and then offer masses of premium content for $10 a month because they have an enormous global reach and tens of millions of subscribers (hundreds of millions in the case of Netflix).

The tickling fetish is a tiny niche market, not even remotely comparable in terms of scale. In order to make this work, you would need to get a bunch of producers to sell their content at such a low price that it could all be bunched together and then distributed at a tiny fraction of what they would each be selling it for already via their own sites or clip stores - it would be like selling content at 1% of the usual rate. In order to get this to work, there would then need to be a customer base hundreds or thousands of times larger than their own audience - in other words, a typical producer would have to be reaching thousands and thousands more customers than they would be selling to normally.

That simply isn't possible because no matter how great the streaming service is, it wouldn't increase the number of customers that are already out there.





In this example, if you had 100 producers putting a load of content on there and you got 1000 subscribers, each paying $10 for a site with several thousand clips, that would make $10,000. Even if you took no cut at all, the producers would still only average $100 a month from this. In reality, there would be significant costs for hosting the content and managing all of the traffic, not to mention building and maintaining a secure site, payment processors with age verification and so on.

This is why this idea just wouldn't work. It's a nice thought and would be a great deal for customers, but it would be completely unprofitable and unworkable from a producer point of view. The market just isn't that big unfortunately.

EXACTLY!!
 
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