Adult online stats back to 1998

Adult sites were $6 billion in 2007
- Mark Kernes, an editor at Adult Video News"

Adult sites were a $1 billion industry in 1998
"More than half the requests on search engines are adult-oriented"
- The New Wired World", Newsweek. Sep 20, 1999. p. 40-78

" Web surfers spent $970 million on access to adult-content sites in 1998
and is expected to rise to more than $3 billion by 2003,
according to the research firm Datamonitor."
- U.S. News & World Report, Datamonitor. (3/27/2000)

online sales of adult material accounted for eight percent of all e-commerce.

While the firm no longer tracks the adult industry, anecdotal evidence suggests
that sales remain as strong as ever.

- Forrester Research

Customers Keep Coming Back

"Porn sites are among the few content providers that are able to profit from charging visitors early on, other types of services that tried to make users pay ended up abandoning the practice. According to research firm Datamonitor, adult content makes up 69 percent of the $1.4 billion (US$) market for paid online services in the U.S. and Western Europe. "
- Datamonitor

"Sex is the #1 searched for topic on the Internet."
- Dr. Robert Weiss, Sexual Recovery Institute, Washington Times (1/26/2000)

"Online pornography is the first consistently successful e-commerce product."
- C-Net (4/28/99)

" There are now at least 40,000 porn sites on the World Wide Web and probably thousands more. No one has been able to count them all."

- U.S. News & World Report, (3/27/2000)

" According to Nielson NetRatings, 17.5 million surfers visited porn sites from their homes in January, a 40% increase compared with 4 months earlier."
- U.S. News & World Report, (3/27/2000)

" 60% of all web-site visits are sexual in nature."
- MSNBC /Stanford/Duquesne Study, Washington Times (1/26/2000)

" 25 million Americans visit cyber-sex sites between 1-10 hours per week.
Another 4.7million in excess of 11 hours per week."
- MSNBC/Stanford/Duquesne Study, Washington Times (1/26/ 2000)

" 70% of all Internet porn traffic occurs during the 9-to-5 workday "
- SexTracker

With the above stats you can see why so many are getting involved in this industry and making serious money at it.

 

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