economist.com: Naked capitalism

hervorragende zusammenfassung zum stand der pornografie im netz und in der, haha, fleischwelt:

In America the number of porn studios is now down from over 200 to 20, says Alec Helmy, the founder of XBiz, a trade publication. Performers who used to make $1,500 an hour now get $500—even as increased competition means they are asked to produce more extreme content. Revenues are well below their peak; how far below is hard to say, as most porn producers are private. Just before the tubes took off, plausible estimates put worldwide industry revenues at $40 billion-50 billion. Mr Thylmann thinks they have fallen by at least three-quarters since then.

der artikel zeichnet auch sehr nachvollziehbar paralellen zum mediengeschäft:

All this will sound painfully familiar to other media firms. Echoing the aggregation deals struck by the tubes with commercial porn producers, social-media sites are starting not just to link to content, but to host it. Snapchat, a messaging app that lets users send each other photos and videos that vanish after a few seconds, allows news outlets to publish articles on its service in return for a share of advertising revenue. Facebook is doing something similar with its Instant Articles service. Indeed, Facebook, Twitter and their like have essentially evolved into traffic-brokers. Many of the clicks they pass on come from links posted by users. But the number of ads, promoted posts and suchlike is growing.

facebook und twitter als durchlauferhitzer nach dem vorbild der porn-tubes, bzw. den frühen pornolinklisten. demnach ist massen-erregung und -mobilisierung ist ist der motor der porno- und medienbranche. was sollte da schief gehen?

[bei blendle [€] gefunden, via miriam meckel im blendle-kanal wirtschaft.]

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es gibt auch noch einen zweiten artikel in der economist-themenreihe pornografie, den ich noch nicht gelesen habe und deshalb auch nichts dazu sagen kann: Pornography: A user’s manual

(miriam meckel sagt dazu auf blendle [€]: „A great overview on the economic and cultural impact of pornography as a driver for digital development and business.“)