Another article about adult content driving technology uptake, this one focusing on Cherry Sauce and Safira, which created the content delivery platform for Cherry Sauce. Despite the general tone of the article, there’s a few interesting paragraphs about the difficulty of estimating the size of the market (hence predictions like that from Yankee group that “the U.S. market will reach between $543 million and $1.5 billion in 2009″).
“They lie through their teeth about how big the market is,” Card says. “There are also a lot of mom-and-pop operations making a little cash on the side, and not a lot of $15 million to $20 million companies.”
It doesn’t help forecasters that few porn companies are publicly held. New Frontier Media and Private Media Group are two exceptions. In 2005, New Frontier had $46.3 million in revenue, with $43.5 million coming from pay TV and the rest from the Internet, including mobile. Private Media had revenue of $32.7 million in 2005, with $1.2 million from wireless and the rest from other product lines, including videos, DVDs (its biggest revenue), magazines and broadcasting. Private Media reports Internet revenue separately from wirelessâ
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