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Originally Posted by Barry-xlovecam
There is no accurate reporting of porn sales, web based or otherwise that are publicly available and audited ? with the exception of a few publicly traded stocks.
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100% true. Damian is just trolling. I'm working on knowledge of the industry from 1977 till today, however it's just a guess. And have said so.
I've seen the companies built by offline porn and in no way do they compare with any online porn company at the same height. Even though many of the offline porn bosses had the intelligence to invest their money outside porn, the money they earned inside was vast.
The public traded companies were mostly Production and Wholesale, the porn industries turn over has to include retail. Every single Video produced by companies like Private, Wicked, Vivid, etc were worth $30+ so quoting only wholesale figures is very misleading. People like David Gold didn't earn money from just wholesale, he earned money from retail.
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Gold owns Gold Group International (GGI), the parent company of the retailer Ann Summers, lingerie chain Knickerbox, and owned pornographic magazine company Gold Star Publications (GSP), printing and distribution businesses.
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Will any online porn business grow to this extent? Or the extent of Playboy, Hustler, PRO?
Ultimately it makes little difference if you're earning $50,000 in an industry worth $50 billion or $50 million. The only thing that matters is what you earned last year, this year and next year in porn. And most know what that means for them. Despite what "marketing" talk they put out. We know what WE earn.
People like Damian clinging onto the notion that he's part of a big industry doesn't pay his rent. If online porn is the biggest porn income EVER, it's spread amongst 1,000s like him. People living in countries where $50,000 is a fortune and countries like the UK and US where it's hardly better than a decent offline job. What ever wealth online porn generates, it's spread very thin amongst 10s 1,000s.
Instead of the Internet turning out to be the best thing to ever hit the porn business it was the worse. That makes me sad, I came into it properly in 2001 expecting very little, in 2002 I was shocked at how much we did earn. In 2005 we had our best year ever. 3 years later I saw the end for many was coming. I had always thought the road we were taking online was wrong and said so. Hence a lot of hostility to my post. Did I turn out to be right?
Because of the refusal by most online porn companies to adapt. Except on giving free porn away. In that area we are tip top.