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Originally Posted by Paul Markham
No one with any brains can claim the industry makes more than it did pre 2006, so is it making more or less money the last 6 years?
It's pointless to make claims based on personal incomes because without proof they mean nothing. Even the growth of domains could mean existing domains not doing enough.
Base it on the price of clicks to porn sites, the number of advertisers bidding for porn traffic and the price they pay, the prices for content, quantity of content, price for premium names, design prices, forum traffic, etc.
Anything but the inane "We are making loads more money because I say so."
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From the April 2019 report for adult and pornographic websites in the U.S. (excluding offline distribution of pornography and live webcam shows):
"Over the past five years, industry revenue increased at an annualized rate of 10.1%, including 6.2% growth projected over 2019 alone.
Over the five years to 2024, industry revenue is projected to increase at an annualized rate of 5.1% ..."
This is NOT comparing 2019 to 2006, just trends for the given years. Although the report provides numbers for revenue, it does state, "Average industry profit margins have remained low, ..."