GoFuckYourself.com - Adult Webmaster Forum - Business How is Paidperview.com doing for you?

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Originally Posted by amvcdotcom (Post 20424882)

Just trying to get some input before I put a lot of time into them :)

I have been producing content for over a year, some camming but mostly xtube and clips4sale. I've had content accepted by Homegrown in the past, but my most recent submission is on hold, because they say they are currently saturated and not accepting anything.

Its been a little over a month since the first videos I uploaded to paidperview finished processing and came online.

In the interest of fairness and impartiality, I'm going to list the pluses of PaidPerView first:

- Easy sign up,

- No minimum number of videos to start, few restrictions on size or quality

- They have about the best URL (porn.com) one could imagine.

- The URL plus lots of quality free content means plenty of market share / views

- Not only do they allow watermarks to other sites, they will even watermark your videos for you, to whatever URL you want! That is a very nice feature I haven't seen anywhere else.

And now for the negatives:

- Their communication is unbelievably awful. Seriously. Like, really, really terrible.
Direct emails usually get a reply within 24hours. But 2 of them have gotten no reply at all. Ever. This was hitting "reply" to a received email, so its not like a typo sent it the wrong place. Worse, though, is using the "contact us" page with the built in form. I have NEVER gotten ANY response from any message I've sent through the contact us form. I informed them of that via one of the working emails, but it does not seem to have been fixed (or they ignore messages received that way?)

- The upload system forces you to manually select titles, tags, collection, and affiliate, one by one, for every upload. There is no way to select all of a set of clips and tag them all.

-Before selecting categories to tag, you must pick gay or straight. After making that choice, it then takes anywhere from a few minutes to several hours before the list of categories loads.

- The title has to be a minimum of 40 characters long.
This would be only a minor annoyance, except...

-No matter what you write as a title, they will ignore it, erase it, and write their own.
They apparently just glance at the animated thumbnail, because more than half of the titles they make up don't accurately reflect what happens in the clip. They are short, generic, meaningless, and frequently have grammar and spelling mistakes. They in no way help people looking for a specific thing find what they want to see. And the producer / uploader has absolutely zero control over what words are used to describe their content. Even after being forced to come up with a unique 40 character description of each upload.
So basically, first they waste a bunch of our time, and then make it hard for people who might be looking specifically for our type of content to actually find it.

This alone would be enough to make me want to cancel my account.
I have something called:
"Anal cowgirl gets creampie (POV) - real interracial couple"
they change it to:
"Babe Gets Her Fuck Session Capyured On Cam" [sic]

"No touching until she says so - then dick in ass and dildo in pussy"
they re-write to:
"Watch This Sexy Girl In Red Nightie Fuck A Black Man"

"Workout in spandex leads to fucking in sneakers in the gym"?
No, that apparently should be called
"Live For The Mature Milf Pussy Fucking Today"
WTF does that even mean? Never mind that 100% of sales of that video have been to people with either a sneaker, spandex, or gym fetish. Lets take every relevant keyword out of the title, and replace it with gibberish which isn't even an English sentence.

Not only are they hurting their own traffic by making it harder for customers to find what they are looking for, they are generating extra unnecessary work for themselves! Every upload already has a title! Just use it. Then you don't have to pay someone to glance at hundreds of thumbnails a day, guess what the movie is about, and make up some stupid random title.

- Similarly, while the uploader has to pick between 1 and 5 tags (categories), they will add as many as they see fit. And, as with the titles, they see fit to just guess which ones are appropriate. And of course they are very frequently wrong. Which defeats the purpose of even having tags. Having tags that are wrong half the time is more useless than having none at all.

- The pay is really bad. As a comparison, for example, in August I produced one single 40minute long video. I uploaded it to C4S both as a single full length video, and split into 7 parts. Total income (so far) just over $150.
My average income from any one video uploaded to PaidPerView? $1.62
Note the decimal there. One dollar, and sixty two cents. The best any has done there is $3.11

- Maybe this last part is just conspiracy theory, but for the past month I've had 2 videos go live per day. All of a sudden that has dropped down to zero in the past 3 days, even though there is lots of uploaded content waiting. Now that I haven't had anything on the homepage for 3 days, earnings dropped down to 3 cents per day.
My total earnings so far is $48. The minimum payout is $50.
Hmmmm.... Maybe that's just a coincidence.

- There is no way to delete individual uploads once they are uploaded. Nor is there any clear way to close your account. Presumably you could do both or either by contacting them directly, except that its a matter of luck if they ever respond.

I don't know where they are sourcing their massive amount of free content, but until they work out all these significant problems, I'd advise against adding to it.