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Lukeisbackcom · 10-15-2007, 10:09 AM

Great article by Claire Hoffman in Portfolio:

portfolio.com/culture-lifestyle/culture-inc/arts/2007/10/15/YouPorn-Vivid-Entertainment-Profile

2257s at Pornotube (AEBN) seem dodgy:

DVD sales are in free fall. Audiences are flocking to pornographic knockoffs of YouTube, especially a secretive site called YouPorn. And the amateurs are taking over. What?s happening to the adult-entertainment industry is exactly what?s happening to its Hollywood counterpart?only worse.

?Three years ago, 80 percent of Vivid?s income came from DVD sales. Today, Hirsch puts that number at about 30 percent, with the rest coming from a fragmented range of sources: subscriptions to Vivid.com, pay-per-view TV, internet video-on-demand, merchandising, and mobile-phone deals. Domestic DVD sales are down 35 percent this year alone. His revenue is flat, he says, but that?s mainly because he?s been cutting costs. Within five years, he claims, DVD sales will be close to zero.

?One of the items on Reeder?s to-do list [at AEBN?s PornoTube.com] is an age-verification complaint about a video called ?Adriana Lima Blowjob.? It has no 2257 info. So Reeder cuts and pastes the name into a search engine and clicks through a few sites that say Adriana Lima was born in 1981. Reeder is about to move on when I point out to her that Adriana Lima is in fact a fairly well-known model and that the woman in the video is probably not she. Is PornoTube concerned about that? Knudsen, standing behind Reeder, tells her to take it down quickly. ?We do the best we can,? Knudsen tells me repeatedly.

10-15-2007, 10:09 AM
Lukeisbackcom Registered User Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 30	Obscene Losses Great article by Claire Hoffman in Portfolio: portfolio.com/culture-lifestyle/culture-inc/arts/2007/10/15/YouPorn-Vivid-Entertainment-Profile 2257s at Pornotube (AEBN) seem dodgy: DVD sales are in free fall. Audiences are flocking to pornographic knockoffs of YouTube, especially a secretive site called YouPorn. And the amateurs are taking over. What?s happening to the adult-entertainment industry is exactly what?s happening to its Hollywood counterpart?only worse. ?Three years ago, 80 percent of Vivid?s income came from DVD sales. Today, Hirsch puts that number at about 30 percent, with the rest coming from a fragmented range of sources: subscriptions to Vivid.com, pay-per-view TV, internet video-on-demand, merchandising, and mobile-phone deals. Domestic DVD sales are down 35 percent this year alone. His revenue is flat, he says, but that?s mainly because he?s been cutting costs. Within five years, he claims, DVD sales will be close to zero. ?One of the items on Reeder?s to-do list [at AEBN?s PornoTube.com] is an age-verification complaint about a video called ?Adriana Lima Blowjob.? It has no 2257 info. So Reeder cuts and pastes the name into a search engine and clicks through a few sites that say Adriana Lima was born in 1981. Reeder is about to move on when I point out to her that Adriana Lima is in fact a fairly well-known model and that the woman in the video is probably not she. Is PornoTube concerned about that? Knudsen, standing behind Reeder, tells her to take it down quickly. ?We do the best we can,? Knudsen tells me repeatedly.