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Jim_Gunn · 03-28-2011, 11:13 PM

Paul, you are making almost total guesswork about the average number of units of a VHS or DVD adult movie that was typically sold back in the 90's. I worked in the office of the biggest distributor in the US in most of that decade and took careful notice of everything that went on there on a daily basis including what titles and series were selling in what numbers. Besides being the in-house producer, I was also directly responsible the daily operations of the production end of the company including supervising sales, coordinating with other producers and organizing physical production of VHS tapes, printing boxes & sleeves and many other facets of the day to day operations. So I know with absolute certainty from years of day to day experience and observation how many unit sold of movies in that time, on the low end and high ends. And also about production budgets and eveything that went into them.

10,000 was a very large number of units of a VHS or DVD movie to sell, a huge hit. 2500-3000 or more units moved in the first 60 days or so was doing well. Of course there were and are other platforms to sell to and potentially earn more money from. And of course some companies did much better than others.

I could type thousands of words about the subject of the offline porn biz in the 1990's & 2000's, about all the players, marketing strategies, production techniques and everything else about the business back in the day. But I have a lot of work to do before I leave for Phoenix the day after tomorrow, so I'll just leave it at that for now.

BTW, "Could porn really of [sic] survived the Internet?" is really taking a mangling of your native English language to a whole new level. And by that I mean you have pretty much reached its nadir.

03-28-2011, 11:13 PM
Jim_Gunn Confirmed User Industry Role: Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Where The Teens Are Posts: 5,702	Paul, you are making almost total guesswork about the average number of units of a VHS or DVD adult movie that was typically sold back in the 90's. I worked in the office of the biggest distributor in the US in most of that decade and took careful notice of everything that went on there on a daily basis including what titles and series were selling in what numbers. Besides being the in-house producer, I was also directly responsible the daily operations of the production end of the company including supervising sales, coordinating with other producers and organizing physical production of VHS tapes, printing boxes & sleeves and many other facets of the day to day operations. So I know with absolute certainty from years of day to day experience and observation how many unit sold of movies in that time, on the low end and high ends. And also about production budgets and eveything that went into them. 10,000 was a very large number of units of a VHS or DVD movie to sell, a huge hit. 2500-3000 or more units moved in the first 60 days or so was doing well. Of course there were and are other platforms to sell to and potentially earn more money from. And of course some companies did much better than others. I could type thousands of words about the subject of the offline porn biz in the 1990's & 2000's, about all the players, marketing strategies, production techniques and everything else about the business back in the day. But I have a lot of work to do before I leave for Phoenix the day after tomorrow, so I'll just leave it at that for now. BTW, "Could porn really of [sic] survived the Internet?" is really taking a mangling of your native English language to a whole new level. And by that I mean you have pretty much reached its nadir. __________________ Jim Gunn Filming Cinematic Porn Skype JimGunnProductions Last edited by Jim_Gunn; 03-28-2011 at 11:14 PM..