1. There is innovation on the internet and connected with the bricks and mortar world -- just not much in the adult industry.
- Netflix
- Amazon
- Tesla
- SpaceX
- Faceboot
- Twitter
- Airbnb
- Uber
- the list goes on
• Number of internet users in global regions 2016 | Statistic
2. How many of these people can buy from you? This is why traffic is cheap and the ROI on traffic is poor. These people buy fish heads and rice daily and look for free porn on the internet. You don't have to be a rocket scientist to figure this out. Additionally, Internet advertising suffers from ad blocking and CPM fraud.
3. I am sure that some of the retail stock brokerages are gone today because of price competition from the new breed of digital stock brokerages.
Large (or larger) business incumbency helps (or helped) but you only have to look as far as Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and now Eldon Musk to see that the information technology has leveled the playing field.
If you bring nothing new to the table -- no defined unique product value -- why would you expect to excel? A can of corn is a can of corn -- commoditization.