interesting stats from another thread

[BrettJ]

Thought everybody might want to see what I dug up.
Internet Growth.
<a href="http://www.nua.ie/surveys/how_many_online/world.html"> (Nua Internet Survey)</a>
# of People Online World Wide:
july 1998 129.5 ml
july 1999 185.2 ml
july 2000 359.8 ml
- - - - - - - - - - -

Adult Sites <a href="http://www.avnonline.com/200005/corecontents/cc0500_03.shtml">
(From May 2000 AVN Online </a> Estimations provided by Flyin' Croc. They are probably most accurate with # of free sites)

Free Sites
1996 - 5050
1997 - 22,100
1998 - 43,200
1999 - 155,500
2000 - 280,300

Pay Sites
1996 - 120
1997 - 230
1998 - 650
1999 - 875
2000 - 1100

# of Webmasters
1999 - 50,000
2000 - 40,000
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LEGAL Adult Industry Revenue

Online - (source <a href="http://www.thestandard.com/article/0,1902,19696-2,00.html"> The Standard</a>
1997 - 970 Million Dollars
1998 - 1.390 Billion Dollars
1999 - 1.780 Billion Dollars
2000 - 2.260 $Bl (projected)

In comparison Forbes, suggests the total Adult Industry - (mags, toys, clubs, etc.)
in 1999 pulled in $56 billion


Okay well that's about it.
~Brett
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[Hypo]

Dollars per site drastically reduced - it gets tougher everyday

[XM]

Great articles anyway - lot of motivation there
XM


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[Exxxotica]

Yeah...but most sites suck ass.

That looks like good news to me.

[Pete Dogg]

thanks for the info.

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[BrettJ]

Average Dollars Per Webmaster.


went from $35,600 in 1999
to $56,500 in 2000

(of course if these figures are correct a few guys are makign a ton more than that...and a bunch are makign a lot less)

~Brett
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[Lord Assmore]

Originally posted by BrettJ:
# of Webmasters
1999 - 50,000
2000 - 40,000

That's a surprising and interesting trend. I thought it was the other way around.

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[Wizzo]

280,300 unfortunatly seems like a very low number of free sites to me.

[aprilkorova]

I don't know how they gathered their info, or if it's correct. But, if it is even close ,I thought it was kinda promising. Lots of money to be made, not as many webmasters making it. Sounds like all of you that said the industry would start evening itself out, may be right

[boneprone]

yawn.

[magnatique]

wizzo is right...
take 200,000 at adultcheck, and the ones at agecheck, BAM, more than 280K...

[magnatique]

but do they consider avs free? that's the question