Well speaking from experience Mobile Porn is a money maker.
Textbill specialises in delivery of porn to the phone and billing for it via SMS(where available) and by credit card.
Wiredguy has hit the nail on the head with regards to mobile porn being a complementary service on Adult Web Sites, for your $29.99 per month you also get $50.00 of free porn delivered to your mobile. Actual cost to the Webmaster to deliver the porn is about $0.15 globally. Simply add a WAP shopping basket to your site where the user chooses his $50 worth of porn, we then send him a WAP link to his phone with the links to the porn he has chosen for him to download.
Babymaker makes a good point and currently this is growing in Europe now. We have clients delivering Web Cam Girl feed direct to mobile and billing again by CC and by SMS(where suitable Adult Short Codes are available-not the US) and they are growing month on month. The buyers of webcam girls on mobile are global as against just in Europe.
With regard to what Greg has said, yes US Webmasters can bill via SMS but only for clients in Europe. Really the only decent revenues come from the UK and Germany. You can have HT Access time limited so people can pay by phone to try the site and hopefully convert to cc billing with your preferred biller.
Another growing service is VOD by SMS, for an idea of what it is like go here:
http://www.textbill.com/public/index...ervice&Itemid=
This is a great service for an alternative to cc billing for VOD.
The advantages of delivering to the mobile phone is the database creation, every user that you deliver to you can through our system market your services to them with updates, alerts etc... for about $0.10 per user. every one has a porn email address but very few people have a porn mobile so your connection with them as clients is quite solid.
When a client pays by sms to enter your site there are no chargebacks. Again SMS is really only useful for your UK and German clients.
Drawbacks for using SMS as a payment function:
On a £1.50 SMS the payout is £0.80 and on a £5.00 SMS the payout is £3.00, the reason for this is the Carriers take a big chunk and tax is taken out too.
For all the SMS Billing you do in month one will not be paid out from the carriers till the 2nd week of month three. We take about £0.07 on a £1.50 SMS and about £0.12 on a £5.00 SMS
Finally, it will be you guys that drive the mobile porn industry. The people currently in Mobile Porn are not promoting the services on the internet anywhere near as effectively as you guys do. They promote MoBile Internet which is very poor and diificult use. You guys are the experienced ones in driving traffic, promoting niche services and collecting the winnings.
Remember you guys are the ones who will win in mobile if you choose to do this.
Sean O'Connor
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