I do have some experience with this as I had a fetish site from the start of the internet till relatively recently, basically till Tubing and Torrents turned it from a full time job to very little, and your points are well taken in today's environment. The problem with niche product is also that those that want niche product, are also the most likely to know the ways to get that product for free in today's world. Mainstream porn is consumed by mainstream people, and most mainstream people at least in a porn sense have no idea what we do here and on other sites and in the Torrent world. Most fear it because someone said you might get a virus if you go out here on the "dark" web and if you download something "illegally" they can trace you. VPN, Seed Boxes, Direct Download all the stuff that many of us here take for granted is completely foreign. They have no idea that for the cost of what they spend on a couple Girlsway downloads they could have the entire series in 1080p without leaving there house by the next morning. But if you are into Tall Dominant Lesbians, I mean really into them, and that was one thing my site focused on that so I know this market pretty good, then even if you are a tech idiot you are going to do whatever necessary to find every source possible and you will start with the Tubes, then move to the DL sites and Torrenting. Believe me most people, even mainstream porn consumers think all this stuff is the "dark" web. So they gladly pay their 20 bucks a month at Brazzers, or download full movies from some online DVD store. The other thing killing producers of niche product is with Clips4Sale, THE PRODUCER, isn't really needed anymore. Once the girl figured out she could set up the camera, in one day shoot 10 clips degrading dudes, and make her car payment and half her rent without taking her clothes off as long as she was hot or willing to do the "weird" stuff why would she work with a middle man. And this is true all the way into the mainstream arena where most of the big porn stars only do mainstream porn so they can make their real money on their own websites, custom vids, high end escorting, and for many as featured dancers which you will never be if you haven't at least licked a girls pussy on camera but you better have fucked on camera to really get in the big leagues of that. Which really has nothing to do with Izumu, except to say that my whole point has been that they are a micro niche company for sure but by the amount of product they produce I don't think they are a micro company. They have more than a couple old dudes get their jollies. I think mainly what some might be missing is that I am specifically talking about the IFD videos they produce. You can basically buy and find free most of the other stuff they produce quite easily, both legit and in our world. If your into Femdom with a male you can go to any Tube site right now and get much of their catalog. You can publicly torrent a 70 vid megapack of Femdom with male vids, and nearly every private tracker has various Izumu on it. But not IFD 3, never IFD 3
That's my holy grail and if I have a winning poker night soon I might just call my Japanese friend and get it. And then after a year if its still missing from the public I'll post it here first
And in this world of 7 billion people, closing in on 8, with over a million coming online around the world every day I think you could probably do 5k in sales on a such a unique product that has a relatively small but almost addictive need for that special product. To use a comparison in 1998 I put up my paysite devoted to Tall Woman, it had been a free site and I had built up a little following. I offered a 24.99 a month members area for exclusive content, when mind you most of the content was jpegs not mp4s and when I woke up the next morning, and I was truly micro I had nearly 200 subscribers, over half from outside the United States and I quit my job soon after. Those were great days, the early days of the internet, and you may be right now but I can tell you that there are far more than 5 thousand people into Tall Dominant women around this world, and a large subsection of them like it to be LezDom. And if you are one of those guys then a decent part of your life is hunting for content that hits that fetish exactly, because in mainstream and even most fetish porn it happens so rarely. the IFD vids, especially the early ones did that and if they kept making them at the rate they make ones about obese chicks sitting on dudes faces they would sell a shitload. Once again the most googled porn word, and most searched word on all Tube sites is LESBIAN for years running so in the end no matter how hard it is for me to get in States, which is a completely different issue, I can't figure out why they don't make more of it with the distinctive actresses they employ.
And if that was directed at me, is there an Izumu group or something, I think when I first got here that intrigued me right off, I was sure it would have IFD 3
