If you do, put a link to it because I don't know anything about navigating the forums except going right here....maybe this deserves it's own thread. I'll put one up later.
Obviously if 1,000,000 people started watching this show, at least 1 of them would become a huge fan of one of the players and buy the porn of it. All name recognition leads to sales. Also, I would never go find a place to buy their porn if I just saw it as another video on YouPorn, but now I would be thinking, "Hey, I know the person who made that, I should drop a tip in their tip jar or something."*edit* I just had a bit of a realization. Is it possibly that shows like this that actually let you "know" the people in front of the camera on porn makes you more eligible to pay for it?
On the other hand, I have sort of a madonna-whore thing going on where I have such a big geek crush on the players I don't want to spoil it by looking up their porn. I'm more likely to buy Zak's book.
Ultimately it seems like they were going to be doing it anyway and it only has taken about 16 hours of their time each (not counting Zak's time) so it might possibly make sense from a business perspective if the show's audience gets super large. But they're clearly not doing it only as a promotional tool, so if any of us buys their porn it's more like gravy for both of us -- they earn money and we learn about porn we would have liked if we knew it existed.
Whoa... I didn't know she had a blog. And I love the question-and-answer format she's chosen to write it in (unless it's really a transcript of talking to Zak or something).Mandy writes her own blog, but do you guys think that building this kind of rapport with the consumer might help sales?