Making Money

Porn sites have plenty of ideas for getting cash.

"According to Rick Muenyong of The YNOT Adult Network, free sites comprise between 70 and 80 percent of the adult material out there. These sites are used as "bait" for pay sites and make their money by successfully guiding viewers to premium services on other sites.
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In order to survive, free sites will use almost any trick to raise clickthrough rates: false promises of more free content and multiple pop-up ads that appear when a viewer tries to leave are the most annoying recent trends. "
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So far, index sites with thousands of links, such as Persian Kitty's Adult Links, have had the best luck grabbing traffic and making money. "

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"With this lesson in mind, Webmasters aggressively pursue cross-linking agreements. Top ten (or fifty, or three hundred) lists, which rank "partner" sites based on overall traffic, were trendy in 1997, but partners often artificially inflated hit counts through endless circles of links within their sites. SexTracker, a more sophisticated service that tracks traffic throughout the entire adult industry, is perhaps the ultimate outgrowth of the list trend: its 12,000 adult-site rankings are a frequent starting point for porn-hungry surfers. "

according to c|net report, porn companies have a reputation for credit card fraud, which could lead to a crackdown (—and it did).*link to story

Salon - "Pornutopia Lost - 'click-through farming'"

What happens when the boy next door (former MSP intern) turns pornographer to turn a buck:

Making money notes.

"Amex Nixes X-Rated Exchanges" - Wired News

"Porn Sites: Give Us Some Credit" - Wired News

"Net Pornographer Probed," USA Today

"Cyberporn Battles for Mainstream," MSNBC

Wall Street Meets Pornography, Oct 23, 2000, New York Times

Playboy Withdraws IPO
Playboy Enterprises posts losses and withdraws its IPO.
http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,40168,00.html

Playboy CEO Is Hopping Mad
Angered by a magazine article dubious of her company's future dot-com viability, Playboy CEO Christie Hefner lashes out, maintaining that the bunny brand can be profitable in 2002. Peter Catapano reports from the Jupiter Entertainment Forum in Los Angeles. http://www.wirednews.com/news/business/0,1367,39538,00.html

Learning Annex Class Notes

* {Films} * {More Hype} * {Realities} * {Artists} * {Emerging} *
* {Addiction} * {Diversity} * {Text} * {Money} * {Scams} *