Damian is dead right. No one knows and it's all best guessing.
What is the porn business?
Where are we counting?
What are we counting?
For counting read guesses.
The stats I saw in 1998 about. Included everything.
Video retail sales and rental.
Cable
Phones
Internet
Toys
Clothes
And a few other things.
Ann Summers a chain of UK sex shops. In 2007-2008, had an annual turnover of £117.3 million. ($193 million) The UK is probably a smaller market behind the US and other EU countries.
The idea that Manwin get close to that is silly.
Start multiplying it around the world and you get a picture. Vague one but still something to think about. And in the UK there was also other porn retail outlets.
Here's a clue to the value from a few years ago f one sector of porn.
10,000 video titles a year, duplicated 10,000 times and sold for $30 each.
$300,000 a title.
$300,000,0000 for a years production of videos. Rental was alway said to be the same as sales. So double it. $600,000,000 Add cable.
That was the figure for the US only. AVN said that more than 10,000 titles were published every year. In the US.
But it's all guess work as Damian says.
Start thinking in terms of magazines and again there's little factual evidence. The last reliable ABC figures for 2 UK magazines was 300,000 each. If true, start to add that around the world. At $5 a time. If people couldn't buy the last edition of Max Hardcores video, they bought porn magazines instead.
The problem is maybe as many as 90% of the porn business is small companies with no published audited accounts. So getting reliable figures is impossible. We're clueless how much Manwin make or worth. Like Damian is clueless what I make or worth, we're all guessing.
My guess is a lot of the money spent offline, moved to online. And a lot of it was loss. Free was available and we all know the stories of members downloading a whole site in a month and canceling. Not to buy again for a few months. Were people lying back then or were we losing millions in retained members?
what is true is the decline of the offline porn industry hasn't been matched by the growth of the online porn industry.
Now you can call me clueless instead of a logical reply.