And I will certainly not make any promises this time too. When beginning working on this particular project among others I run, I had been making crucial mistakes on providing false promises based on the plans we had within the team. Unfortunately, not all of them came true, and it is what it is.
This applies to nowadays, where we faced several challenges, which we both could omit and could not. Of course we could do a better job, there’s always room for improvement.
- New participants? We are always open to enroll new participants to VHTV, but we stick to our business model of an international franchise. We should do a better job focusing on expanding our studio/managers network, whose job is to scout & board new participants to VHTV. We are not involved in participants relationships like other websites may do. Please remember VHTV is a streaming platform, not a reality show in a classic way.
- Better content? We try to stay away from influencing the way content is produced for VHTV and would like to keep this approach, despite it’s disadvantages of not being able to “shape” it the way some users want it to be. Our goal is to connect people willing to expose their lives with people willing to enjoy these lives being exposed.
- Our participants, as well as managers, are provided to almost real-time stats on their viewership and money they earn. The resulting revenue may be different if studios have their own conditions with their own participants, but everyone understands if they’re doing good or bad. In addition, we always forward our user’s cumulative feedback to our studios for them to find ways to improve their work.
I’m sorry if the project became slow or not interesting to you. We aren’t keeping anyone here and alwasy suggest suspending their recurring subscriptions if they feel like they don’t want to pay for the service they do not watch or are not satisfied. In fact, we do periodic mass refunds to subscribers, whose activity at the website stalls for any reason, just in order to make sure they do not pay for nothing. Of course, such actions have negative impact on our revenue, but we feel much more confident when we provide services to people who are willing to receive those from us. You can always re-subscribe in the future whenever you find the website more appealing to you.
We do understand that the activities in the past were more interesting/fascinating for some, but in the same time, there are newer users who find the ongoing streams appealing to them and we cannot ignore that too. It is the way of life to be nostalgic about past as it almost always appears better than current reality. There are objectively valid things proving the content was better any time before, but as we do not shape it on purpose, it organically evolves and both attracts and does not long-time and new subscribers.