** Continued From: Amateur Porn Rules! - Part #1
I gave much love to the Amateur niche in part one of this article.
I explained how integral the Amateur niche was to the early success of online porn. Webmasters created Amateur content out of necessity. Established porn producers/publishers of the print and video field paid little if any attention to the Internet in the beginning. Mostly, they told us to stop scanning their stuff. Proto-porn webmasters did what they had to. They found local models, housewives; college students, strippers and they took their own digital photos. While paving an industry, adult webmasters gave birth to the original niche, the Amateur niche.
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"You can pick any sub-niche of this Uber niche and you'll probably make money if you work hard and master your audience. Amateur Asian babes in bikinis? Go for it. The prospects are endless." |
I also wrote in part one that this niche is so rich with possibilities, the word niche doesn't do Amateur content justice.
The adult webmaster can create practically any kind of page or site with Amateur porn. Amateur models can be any age, sex or ethnicity. An individual performer can make a living as an Amateur. Major players in our business earned their chops by promoting and profiting from Amateur content.
If you're new to the adult Internet, you can't choose a better niche than the Amateur niche. The content is inexpensive. There's a kajillion sponsors that have Amateur paysites you can promote. You even can hire a designer. However, the Amateur niche is one of the few that does well using pages built by amateur designers. Build a free site with Amateur. Build gallery after gallery of Amateur images and submit them to TGPs. Are you willing to pose yourself? If you're over 18 and you live in a place where it's legal, why not make yourself the star of your Amateur website? Amateur content is all about variety and fresh faces.
Before the web, there was a smattering of Amateur-type publications and videos available to the smut buyer. Right before the Internet took off, porn was for pornstars, experienced directors, unionized crew and commonality. The porn looked the same. The pornstars looked the same. These predecessors of smut rarely ventured from the basic categories of softcore, hardcore, gay and straight.
Porn was expensive to produce, publish and promote. In addition, access to porn was limited, worldwide. It was costly and difficult to sell porn in shops and through the mail than over the web. Who could have imagined millions and millions of adults would be as excited to watch Amateur content as they were to rent and buy pornstar content? Who was willing to take the chance to find out?
What is Amateur content?
There's no simple answer to that question anymore. That's how ingrained Amateur content is in this industry.
One can find a number of major adult sponsors that feature Amateur models as chathost content. There are sponsors that want webmasters to promote adult classified/matchmaking services. These types of sites are just glorified Amateur sites.
One can easily find solo-model paysites that star a never-ending bevy of formerly unknown personalities. Aren't these solo models another addition to the Amateur niche? Maybe you own a few sets of Russian hottie content. The girls are gorgeous but they're not "pornstar" gorgeous. These models are natural and photographed with a $350.00 camera. Aren't these models Amateur models?
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How do you promote Amateur content?
Another conundrum that used to be easy. There are Busty Amateurs, MILF Amateurs, Twink Amateurs, Stud Amateurs, hardcore Amateurs, softcore Amateurs, swingers, coeds, chathosts, blonde Amateurs and Amateurs with big boobs or penises or both. The Amateur niche is branched off now.
As with any market, you have to know who your target is before you can sell. You must decide what sub-niche you want to concentrate on. Do you want to go the lonely housewife route? How about the cam stud or cam babe method? Did you find enough sets of one particular Amateur so that you're able to create a nice AVS or hub site? Have you checked out reality-based content and sponsor programs? Adult classified ads and matchmaking services? Got blog?
You can pick any sub-niche of this Uber niche and you'll probably make money if you work hard and master your audience. Amateur Asian babes in bikinis? Go for it. The prospects are endless. There's no wrong way to go when hyping this niche. It's not about steps one, two, three and four. Selling Amateur porn is about finding the right audience, the right tease or tour and the right Amateurs.
Where do I research Amateur content, sites and sponsors?
Cozy Baby. We got you covered on every count. At Frog, we list the sponsors and content providers in our resource directory. At Academy, we offer lessons on Niche content as well as free site, gallery and paysite architecture. On Campus, you are welcome to ask us anything in our Newbie forum. Amateur Porn Rules. It rules at Cozy.