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Originally Posted by stocktrader23
Porn was on the cutting edge of tech even in the early 2000's. They might not have invented every tool or revenue stream that they popularized but they implemented them on a bigger scale and took shit to another level. These days, morphing some words in an RSS feed is considered to be a big deal.
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ya web video was born from porn. affiliate programs were born from porn. even the member subscription model was born from porn. then youtube and web 2.0 came and mainstream got 2 laps ahead.
as far as earnings per visitor, porn beats mainstream. however, in gross sales and gross traffic, mainstream as a whole is bigger. stands to reason tho, since a good mainstream site will easily have millions of visitors a day. porn is less than 10% of the total internet economy.
i know plenty of mainstream sites who get a million+ visitors a day and are barely paying their bills. one widget company owner i talked to last year has over 100 servers to serve widgets on myspace and hi5 sites, but personally earns less than $50k a year. huge traffic but little profit.
so who is really winning the race? hard to say.