Rose

http://www.forbes.com/2001/05/25/0524porn.html

Techie Media

They are wrong, those figures are not right.
Boneprone alone pulls in approx 5 billion annually....LOL

Truly I would think those numbers they state are not accurate at all. They dont list several sources of adult porn income, such as all the money generated by all of the gallery and free site owners, tgp's, avs, link sites, free hosts. etc..etc...

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Rice_Master

Hey Rose... you're from windsor right? same here, wanna go for a coffee? or hit the bars on the weekend (Dantes) lol

UnseenWorld

One line in particular tells me they are clueless: "Tossing in the Internet will add less than $1 billion to the total porn pie." Now, in economic terms, $1 billion is pocket change. Several of our best-known corporations are larger than $1 billion, and I'm sure that the entire porn industry is bigger than any single company, no matter how large. Even Microsoft.

I worked for a major porn company in their Webmaster Services bureau for a brief while, and I know that they were sending out amounts to quite a few webmasters that were thousands of dollars a week. They had many hundreds of partners, and most of them received several hundred dollars a week.

Also, the article seems to center on profits, whereas the gross is what really matters to the economy. A company where the owner's profit is $75K might gross $300K-$500K. Of course, the difference between the net and the gross is going somewhere. In my case (and I purposely didn't use real figures in the above, BTW), I pay models, I buy wardrobe, I rent locations, I have Internet-related expenses, and so on. If someone just looks at my profits, that's a gross underestimate of my value to the economy.

Anyway, the article strikes me as BS.

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boneprone

5 billion hits annually maybe, but not dollars.. Im the guy who cries when he looses 24,000 in a weekend gambling, so Im not that much of a heavyweight yet.

Mikey

The author doesn't know what he is writing about. He is probably still upset over getting his phone bill after using a dialer.

Incognito

The guy over there who wrote that article wrote it even better than it is unfortunately.

All You who started and made first couple of thousands see it in a bit wrong way.

Those of You who're KNOWN already (like Boneprone, I am new to Your community and unfortunately dont know who's that , dont kill me...
) know the exact situation...


To know how much is it , just take an average amount of UNIQUE porn surfers per day and devide it on average sign up ratio.

(see what You'll get...to say that You'll be FUCKING surprised is to say nothing...)

Techie Media

Incognito, you are wayyyyyyyyy off. Your math is only the tiny tip of the iceberg.. Your forgetting about many other money making ventures, such as (and not limitted to) Content providers, models, Hosting, (Free and Paid) , click thru programs, paid advertising, Net Billing Companies, computer manufacturers, isp's...
The list is endless as to the money generated by the Adult Porn Industry..

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Incognito

Hmm... I dont get it.
What connection do hosters and billing companies with numbers I discussed in Adult?

Billing comanies deal with same sign ups You get. So that's the same pie.

You pay hosters and for content from the money You get from signups.
And that's the same pie.

To be honest only things which come to my mind which do not fit into my scheme are investors money (when someone invests first money and buys content, hosting etc...BUT if it's profitable then it's signups again later which are paying for hosting and content and etc).

And LIVE money when someone pays for a single chat minute.

Actually to be true I did not deal at all with LIVE chats so I got no idea how big is it.

AND there are also dialers.

And my guess that dialer money and LIVE CHAT money do bring change to the amount but it's not THAT big difference.

There are also charges when customers pay for buying some offline videos or such stuff but my guess (could be lack of experience though too) is those spendings are so small in comparison to signups that they dont really change the end amount of money adult really got daily...

But overall the money comes into the Adult biz from outside by each customer who pays for a signup.
Then all those signups are spreaded into (sorry for enlgish, have no idea how to say it in correct terms but You'll get the idea ) : Profit, Salaries and ...BUISNESS COSTS which are money You pay for design , billing costs, hosting and content but unless You biz is unprofitable or new when it needs investments those are SAME MONEY YOU GOT FROM SIGNUPS.

boneprone

My favorite ice cream is French Apple.. But I cant find it anywhere now days! Anyone know where to get it? Im in the mood for french Apple Ice cream.. Anyone else like french apple?

Incognito

Eh...Will anyone object if I get my 1707 posts same way?


Somehow I kinda beleive I know the answer already...