Quality of Site Going Downhill

[Jocke]

Giorgio, could you provide the formula? If we know the formula the discussion becomes more meaningful.

The most fair way to do it I think would be:
Gross margin=Total revenue (price*sales)-cost of scene (use proxy for x number of performers)
Take the average of the latest scenes (maximum 5).

[avanfurwet]

I'd also like to know what their formula is.

I think Giorgio suggested it's unit sales for the model's best selling solo scene?

I think unit sales is the only valid metric for a model's popularity.

I don't think profitability or even revenue has anything to do with it.

2 silly examples, exaggerated for illustration;
If they paid some celebrity $1 million to make a scene, they could sell a lot of units (popular) but still make a loss.
Conversely, if they booked a model and paid her only $100, her scene could have low unit sales (unpopular) but still make a good profit margin.

[Jocke]

Disagree!
If you don't consider the price of the scene it doesn't indicate profitability. If the scene is underpriced it will look more attractive. A higher priced scene selling less might still make more money in total.

[ultimo]

a porn site will cater to the tastes of the whole industry.
I know what I want to watch and it is relatively specific. I can't expect a whole bunch of scenes to be for me.
I am a member of this site because when they produce a scene with a girl I am very attracted too it definitely delivers. The BEST scenes in my entire collection are all from this website.
Is the site really "going downhill" I can't really say that when just a week ago I got to watch a fantastic scene and it was very well done and catered to exactly what I want to see.
All I can say is that the site has definitely expanded and diversified the content.
I log on and check every day and have been for several years now. The scenes I want to see are not as frequent as they used to be, there is a lot more stuff I don't care to see but LegalPorno is still making and producing scenes I do want to see and I am happy to see it continue.

[avanfurwet]

Disagree!
If you don't consider the price of the scene it doesn't indicate profitability. If the scene is underpriced it will look more attractive. A higher priced scene selling less might still make more money in total.

What are you saying you disagree with?

We're not trying to indicate profitability at all. That information is internal to each studio. Completely irrelevant to a league table of models' popularity.

You could argue the case for measuring a model's popularity by sales revenues.

But the ticket price for a 15x1 scene will likely be higher than a 1x1.
If both scenes sell the same number of units, is the model in the 15x1 scene more popular just because the sales revenues were higher?
I don't think so.

FWIW I'm not sure at the top end of the popularity tables that under or overpricing a scene for a popular big-name model would necessarily make a huge difference in sales volume. Those girls have established fan bases who will likely buy their scenes even if they grumble about the price. But as customers we don't have a reliable benchmark to gauge under or overpricing. It's subjective.

For a new and unknown girl then I think obvious mispricing for her scene can result in lower sales and the studio not booking her again because "she didn't sell". That's a pity. I wrote the same argument when IV released IV429 with new girl Emma and priced it at 5 tkts.
But new unknown girls probably wouldn't be challenging on the top pages of "popular models" yet anyway.

[dpconnoisseur1]

Can someone strongly suggest all LP studios provide full bodied picture gallery ? This help fans visualize the model fully. In era of improvements in all forms of visual quality, why are we still dealing with wondering if models have legs or heads ? I know the example below is not from LP but I was admiring beautiful Tori Dakota on [spam] and I thought fuck where is the rest of her (many LP studios are guilty of the same thing) ?

You don't have to attempt to focus the viewers eye it will always focus on what they want to see.