Answer: These 2 questions really go hand and hand. We got into the industry as an experiment. We just wanted to share some of the pictures we enjoyed as surfers. Then after learning more and talking with others, we started to work at building sites that generated traffic. When looking for sites to promote, we could not find a site we wanted to join and decided we could do a better job building a site that catered to the surfers. This is how karups was born, and we officially entered the adult market.
Question: Which sites do you operate?
Answer:
Karups PC, Karups Hometown Amateurs, Karups Older Women and Boy Fun Collection.
Question: What are your insights regarding the niches you cover?
Answer: Our only true niche is quality. Providing lots of fresh new models in exclusive photosets on a regular update schedule is simple business sense to us. We have always taken a commitment to what we do very seriously, and it is because of this commitment to building a site that develops a strong bond with the members that we have creates a niche unique to us.
Alana from Karups Hometown Amateurs
Question: The competition in online porn is getting tighter each day. What makes your sites different from your competition?
Answer: The biggest difference is most other companies choose one quality or quantity. We update each of our sites multiple times per week with many different style models. This way, no matter what you are turned on by, you are sure to find something you enjoy in each update. The fact we are 90% exclusive means that you get your value. You will not get to see our pictures in other sites. There is not tons of filler content you have seen on all the free sites and every other pay site you have joined.
Question: In this industry, the success and failure of a site depends entirely on the members. What is the best thing about your members?
Answer: Our members are the most loyal fans any business could ask for. Because of over 10 years of dependable updates and continued reliability, our members come back again and again. Our fan base has also helped us in many ways in that they are so vocal of their likes and dislikes. Because of the amazing feed back over the years, it has helped tune our content purchases to cater to their tastes and, in turn, keep them coming back.
Question: In contrast to my previous question, is there anything in particular that you do not like about your members?
Answer: When you make a living on a service, it is your responsibility to make the customer always be right so there is nothing we could dislike about our fans. The only time we ever even feel so much as frustration is when a technical issue, or lack of understanding in the technology being used, creates a rift. With the rise in trojans, spyware, firewall programs, security concerns, popup blockers, anti-virus, and ad blockers, it makes diagnosing any technical issue much more difficult. To allow for this, we tend to be slow to update technology if it means leaving other members behind.
Question: Why don't we change the gears a bit and talk about the things that went on behind the scene. First, how do you choose the themes?
Answer: The photographers handle most of that. Several factors play into selection time availability and location of the model. The greatest advantage of using many photographers is the photography changes with the sets, not just the backgrounds and clothes. This makes a big difference when you add the amount of content. In regards to the clothing, that is all based on the model and how she acts in the casting call and the day she shows up for a shoot. You can't just throw a model in a cheerleading uniform and have an affective cheerleader. You need to find a girl with the right personality, and if you look at that, the theme or set creates itself around the reality of the girl.
Question: How do you come up with the story lines?
Answer: When the company was started everyone involved hated the cheesy "Hi, my name is Bob. Can I lay some pipe?" story lines the VHS and cable producers pushed on us. Our members have let us know we made the right choice by focusing on the good stuff a nice hot sex scene. We don't hire actors, and we aren't trying to write plots into someplace it doesn't belong, like a porn movie.
Question: With regards to the content itself, how often do you shoot photo shoots, and do you work with different photographers?
Answer: We update so much we could never shoot all our own content. Currently, we are buying from 30 to 40 photographers all over the world.
Packages of raw images and video stream into our office on daily basis. Chances are on any given day, as many as 3 shoots may be going on somewhere in the world.
Tyra from Karups Older Women
Question: Now let's get to the part that your members are waiting for, the models. How do you choose the models for your site?
Answer: This is one of the hardest jobs you could imagine. We get many submissions from photographers every day, and since beauty is in the eye of the beholder, it makes it hard to choose. One of the nice things about updating so much is we do not have to limit ourselves to one type or niche. We have every type of beautiful woman you could imagine. Specifically, we look to have clean, natural beautiful women who are not full of tattoos and piercings. Karups HA has a very natural girl next door look, and you would be shocked to find out she posed naked if you knew her. We get alot of college girls experimenting or looking for a way to rebel in that site, and it has been very successful. Karups PC has more of the glamour girls you would find on a private beach or in the VIP booth at a hot club. Our newest site Karups OW has a wide selection of more mature models. We have everything from the hot mom to the more plump big tit model and even those really mature older grannies. Our goal with each site is to pick content that anyone that's into the genre we cover will enjoy.
Question: To wrap up, what are your future plans?
Answer: To continue what we are doing. We have launched very few sites over the years. Focusing on our core business is always job number 1. We are nothing without our members, and we have to work very hard to keep them happy. We also recognize the market is changing and are looking for new ways to provide the same quality in new areas. Providing content in the format members want is a growing challenge with the increase in mobile platforms and new distribution outlets. We are working on Flash movies as well as full movies in addition to the wmv clips we offer now. Another move has been to increase ease of finding content with our recently developed advanced search features and our new top models and top picture categories. Member voting is now helping to influence our choices of future models and settings all of wich has equated to increased member satisfaction.
Thanks to Charles for his time answering these questions. Below we have gathered a few preview galleries from all the Karups sites
Karups PC picture gallery | movie gallery
Karups Hometown Amateurs picture gallery | movie gallery
Karups Older Women picture gallery | movie gallery
Read our review of Karup's PC, Karup's Hometown Amateurs and Karup's Older Women
