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Yes, that's pretty much what I meant. I assumed so.

It's a fantasy product that the customers enjoy and pay for. More customers are willing to pay for adult dating than adult content.

Let's just call it what it is. 9 out of 10 times adult dating is a scam where guys are 'tricked' into making charges by fake promises and fake profiles.

That's oke as people are responsible for their own actions (mostly) but let's not make it look nicer than it is ;)

Peace!

Indeed, you're applying a sound logic to this calculation.
I think you're missing a few big ones like Exoclick... and if we're talking about Adult business, don't forget DMM... yes it's an alien that's doing 99% of its business in Japan but DMM generates close to 2B$ every year.

If we're talking about "porn excluding Japan" we're somewhere between 2 and 3 billion dollars... then you can argue about including sex toys or not, dating or not... but however you see it, you'll never go above 5B$.

I often have to explain these calculations to noobs telling me "oh you're in the adultbiz? There's sooo muuuch money there!!!"
No no there's actually little money in our industry, any medium CRM SAAS generates a lot more money than the whole adult industry :pimp

What's interesting in our industry is that overall revenues are shared among a small community of professionals... meaning in other industries, you'd need a lot more people and expenses to generate 5B$

But that's also a major issue: if PH and other tubes were generating a lot more money, they'd probably have more influence when negociating with Visa and Mastercard. Right now despite being big in traffic, they're "small" in revenues :2 cents:

OK, I had no clue that these guys know they are being "duped". I thought these sites were akin to a "Nigerian prince" scams. I have nothing to criticize then :thumbsup or :1orglaugh

So.. you claim it's a scam and at the same time you say it's ok? :disgust

People are responsible for their actions ("mostly" ?) when they get scammed? Lol...

They don't know. Nobody sane would pay to have a chat with a bot.

...erm, maybe Spacedog would :1orglaugh

Yeah doesn't make sense indeed.

People should think twice if that hot girl has really left him a message he needs to pay for to see though :winkwink:

I am old enough to remember the old "ONE 900" numbers paid by a minute, where some old fat ugly hag was pretending to be 20 something Playboy bunny. They paid then, and I am sure they pay for bots today :1orglaugh

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