Girls Gone Wild/Joe Francis - Untouchable?
 

Is Joe Francis the king of all real video? He was once the production assistant on the syndicated show Real TV. Joe noticed that a lot of what came in was too violent or risque for television, and in this cache of forbidden footage he glimpsed a big opportunity.

He spliced the footage together and marketed it under the title Banned from Television. It did $10 million in sales in one year.

Making the leap from severed limbs to bare breasts wasn't that difficult. The idea for Girls Gone Wild, which occurred to him when he saw documentary footage of young women vamping topless at Mardi Gras, was to show what "Real!" girls can be persuaded to do for fun.

"These were just ordinary people. It was reality. I looked around the marketplace, and there was nothing like it," Francis says. "It's every guy's fantasy--that the girl really wants to do it, she just needs to be talked into it."ild Videos. Girls Gone Wild grossed over 100 million dollars in sales last year.
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Can anyone compete with this guy? Is he the Bill Gates of Excibitionist Party Girls?

he took something so simple and turned it into an assload of money.

it didnt even start out pornish, it will just tits, yet sold millions.



anyone ever think that its kinda weird how its a porn, that is advertised on alot of mainstream TV channels?

Joe is brilliant and untouchable . It comes down to marketing , Even though his first few videos were mainly footage from gm video and AMX video and the quality was not good at all . He put it on late night tv next to stern and knocked it out in the hay day .
Dream girls was right up there with him running back to back commercials back in 2000 and that is what helped blow hem up as well .

What this guy did was sell videos that weren't really porn, and sold them on TV to a market that doesn't usually by into porn.

Smart, or just really lucky?

a little bit of both

Interesting... Will someone have the same success if they were to do it today? Not saying on his level, but a small slice of the pie. His look, marketing and who he hung out with (all perception) played a major part in his success :2 cents:

Having a father who is rich doesnt hurt either.

It's a lot easier in business if you have a rish parent to fall back on because then you can take all risk and not worry about failing and that is how you get lucky sometimes...

Wow, I never knew that. I always thought he was a regular guy

Yep he is very wealthy. Forget what he does though.

NOONE is untouchable, get that through your head.

And, now they've got 'Guys Gone Wild'.

And when will we see Trannies Gone Wild?

I'll let you know when they call me. :)

Hang out on the corner of Bourbon and St. Ann streets on Fat Tuesday:glugglug

That guy is one lucky S.O.B.

A mix of money, marketing skills, and luck.

The guy has it all now.

I believe the lawyers of some of those girls as well as the DA have already started touching him.

When I was 19 I managed a movie store in Mandeville and one day a woman came in and asked if our DM who worked in the same store as I did had taken down volume 6. Just as she finished asking my DM calls me and tells me that a woman would be coming in today and just do as she asked.

I took the video down and asked nothing of it, I just thought maybe we were giving in to some religious group or something, the woman was really nice to me and very appreciative of me walking over and taking it down so I had no problem doing it.

10 minuits later my DM calls me back and tells me the woman was the mother of a local high school girl of 16 that was in the video. We had noticed a huge jump in the rental of the video as well as more than a few attempts by under aged boys but thought nothing of it.

Last I heard they were going after him about having minors on his jet and some coke. He beat one reportidly but they were still pushing on the other, I think he made the minors charge go away.

There was no luck involved. He found a niche and blew it wide open. He also had BALLS. He put "daddy's little girl" on national tv licking her best friends box. He had daughters of govenors, teachers, mothers, wives, etc... It didn't matter, if they looked good they were going on. As for marketing and money, they helped but he would have got it done without them because he believed in what he was doing.

:thumbsup

http://www.reeltails.com/gfy/rt39.jpg

Joe isn't as lucky as some of you may think
he is rich, yes.

But he has had some BAD things happen to him on account of him being an asshole.

I think he stole the idea from Jim from DreamGirls.com?

I think he was doing this stuff before girls gone wild.

He is backed by Mandalay pictures so don't believe all the hype it takes big money to do what he does plus his partner is Jason Hervey from wonder years the blond older brother.

At least that?s what I hear.

Met the guy at a playboy party and was very arrogant maybe because I knew the girl he was with well
:winkwink:

when Juicy gets a new video cam :winkwink:

I Having Real Wild Girls have major respect of the guy . He is like the grandfather of what we all do and has helped people like me make a dollar . if im not mistaken Joe has a degree in business and worked his ass off to get to this point . So lucky , Mabye - The guy is smart but has made some few bad judgments.

Dreamgirls and Him are the TOP dogs as far as this content goes and marketing it . Much respect to all ...

I bow down to Grandad Joe and Father Jim Faile :)

pretty awesome

he sells drugs, also got busted for it.

How funny this came up, I saw him last night at Nicky Hilton's Clothing Line Launch Party. Paris didn't show up.

Seems like a cool guy.

she was in another room sucking the COCK :1orglaugh

:1orglaugh

You are bad. Or doing a Video shoot. :Graucho

Guy can not seem to keep himself out of trouble. One of these days it will catch up with him.

yup, nobody is made of steel.

anyone can be taken down.

This kicks the shit out of Joe and his Bull Shit softcore I dare you to disagree with me :1orglaugh
www.phonesexwebcam.net/Movie.wmv

He was definately not the first, but that doesen't matter.

He who dies with the most toys wins........


His first stuff was bought from others in the biz like Terry mentioned above. One of my old shooter friend was the guy who actually filmed some of the first Spring Break stuff.

This is some of the same footage:
http://gals.bikinivoyeur.com/wet-t-m...hp?affilid=213

Some of you guys say "noone is untouchable". Ok lets give it a try, shall we?..... Grab yourself a monster Sony HDR-FX1 camcorder for about $5000 (no biggy so far), pick a competitive name like Crazy Girls Flash! Now make a cool looking logo for Crazy GIrls Flash and have it Set on your microphone, so you appear "professional". Ok... Now try approching some girls and say something like this...."Hi, show us your tits and be on CRAZY FLASH GIRLS!".... They will take one look at you, one look at your Girls Gone Wild copy cat name and then the only thing they are going to show you is their middle finger. Girls Gone Wild is untouchable.

true, GGW has branded the niche mainstream with the help of TV, But chicks will flash GGW just as easy as any other Tom, Dick or Harry. You just have to have the know how.
Bet your sweet ass that GGW gets to see plenty of middle fingers too. lol

Hey I like your site Wett-shirt.tv! Nice job.
I think I use to lease feeds from BikiniVoyeur.com

Thanks Xster, I made it in PhotoShop & ImageReady and it converts very well, better than bikinivoyeur actually, today it's at 1:134. I presume because the traffic is more targetted.

Xster:

Nobody born on this planet is "untouchable" - far more relevant folks than Francis have found this out, often to their disadantage:winkwink:

Tho.. the guy is good a marketing - no doubt! That often involves sticking your head outta the bunker on occasion. Many others have done the same in different fields, - it often works, and sometimes fails...

very interesting thread .....