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I'm not really into the industry - my main income is coming from working for major brands in the ("mainstream") ad industry. I saw the service of acquaintance

by vldx 13y ago

I'm not really into the industry - my main income is coming from working for major brands in the ("mainstream") ad industry. I saw the service of acquaintance of mine and what revenue he's making, so I though I can do better. Generally, in this industry there's massive shortage of talent, ideas and innovation. This is a big opportunity for people who are delivering value in the "mainstream" startup scene and that was one of the reasons which made me try - you can get in and disrupt pretty easily if you think out of the box, which is not so hard in this context. Most of the stuff is almost scam, the customers are threatened like idiots and technologically the year is 2002-2003. There are people who say there's no money anymore in this industry and they're right - there's no money for people who are short on skills, ideas and execution, but there is huge potential for people who are coming from other "mainstream" industries. My prediction is that lot of talented kids will enter this industry with great services - I see it as emerging trend at the moment.

oijaf888 13y ago
Is technology really that behind? I mean redtube/et al are some of the largest websites out there and the blog posts seem to show a pretty high level of technology behind them although with a larger focus on cost than most startups.
- vldx 13y ago
  True, but behind these tube sites stays [1] Fabian Thylmann and his [2] company. He is considered as the biggest disruptor who revolutionised the business. The whole story is something like Napster and the record labels, but slightly different. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabian_Thylmann http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabian_Thylmann [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manwin http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manwin
  - rprus 13y ago
    Do you work with Manwin at all?
    - vldx 13y ago
      No - I don't have any points of contact with Manwin.
- Killswitch 13y ago
  99% of adult sites run on single servers using out of date PHP/MySQL scripts. Sites like RedTube, etc use newer technology, like at Confoo a dev for YouPorn talked about their stack and they use Symfony, Varnish and Nginx.
icewater 13y ago
Can you please provide more detail regarding how innovation is lacking?

by vldx 13y ago

oijaf888 13y ago

Is technology really that behind? I mean redtube/et al are some of the largest websites out there and the blog posts seem to show a pretty high level of technology behind them although with a larger focus on cost than most startups.

vldx 13y ago
True, but behind these tube sites stays [1] Fabian Thylmann and his [2] company. He is considered as the biggest disruptor who revolutionised the business. The whole story is something like Napster and the record labels, but slightly different. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabian_Thylmann http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabian_Thylmann [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manwin http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manwin
- rprus 13y ago
  Do you work with Manwin at all?
  - vldx 13y ago
    No - I don't have any points of contact with Manwin.
Killswitch 13y ago
99% of adult sites run on single servers using out of date PHP/MySQL scripts. Sites like RedTube, etc use newer technology, like at Confoo a dev for YouPorn talked about their stack and they use Symfony, Varnish and Nginx.

icewater 13y ago

Can you please provide more detail regarding how innovation is lacking?