A lesson in free porn economics, user taste education, and the BIGGEST porn company you’ve never heard of
There has been an explosive growth “free porn” in the past 6-7 years. The last time I paid for online porn was that long ago. Of course it was done discreetly through third party companies (ccbilling lol) so as not to have unsavory looking transactions on credit card bills.
People can be heard saying “who pays for porn any more.” I have not since about 2007, but then I may not represent a typical Internet porn addict. Prior to about 2007, “free porn” sites were popup hell with very little free content. Now with ad blockers, free porn sites are actually useable.
I am guessing that free porn sites are luring more children into porn. When there wasn’t much free porn, it required that pesky thing called a credit card. Now there is an unlimited amount of free porn. If there was this much free porn when I was 13 raised by a single mother who did not come home until 11 PM from her waitressing job, I would have been completely ruined for life.
So how do they make money? — suntower_guy
Free porn is killing the porn industry. No one pays for porn anymore.
Wrong.
They’ve just evolved and adopted a new business model, and free porn is the lead generation funnel that fills the sales pipe.
Mindgeek owns the majority of the major porn studios, AS WELL as the free tube sites. They use the free porn sites to drive traffic to the paid sites.
And who’s going to use the free sites? Young men and boys who can’t afford the paid sites. So you’re building your consumer base.
Get them while they’re young and you have them for life.
Free porn isn’t free; your sexuality is the price.
You know by this point what happens to men because of porn. Erectile dysfunction, altered sexual preferences, distorted sex expectations. You know what happens to women because of porn. Sex trafficking, the beauty myth, objectification, and rape culture.
We pay for this free porn.
And who benefits?
The largest porn company you’ve never heard of.
The economics of free porn and a lesson in user taste education.
Mindgeek owns a significant amount in the production and distribution verticals of the porn industry. They own porn studios, they own the tube sites, and they own the affiliate ad network.
Traffic Junky
Advertisers go through Mindgeek’s ad affiliate network, Traffic Junky, to reach you, the visitors of porn sites. Traffic Junky serves billions of ad impressions daily.
Tube Sites
You, the users of porn, provide the tube sites 141 million visits daily. They sell your attention to the advertisers in the form of billions of ad impressions. In exchange, you get your free porn.
In addition to this, free sites drive paid users to the porn studios.
Porn Studios
Paid subscribers (yes, they still exist) pay the porn studios and production companies for first access to porn. The porn studios, create fresh porn content endlessly. That content is then uploaded to the tube sites.
You, the visitor
What you click on matters. What you choose to watch dictates the type of porn they’ll produce in the future. Because they want more of your clicks. They want more of your attention so they can sell it to the advertisers.
They’re profiting from hijacking your sexuality.
Through the tube sites, they put out free porn to capture your attention, your clicks, your pageviews.
One revenue stream is through free users of the tube sites graduating to paid subscribers of the porn studios. Brazzers, Reality Kings, and Mofos are some of the subscription sites under the Mindgeek umbrella.
But paid subscriptions are a sideshow compared to the REAL game: advertising revenue.
Through Traffic Junky, they sell your 141 million daily pageviews to advertisers as billions of ad impressions.
The more pageviews, the more ad impressions they can sell.
So how do they get more pageviews? By uploading porn that holds your attention.
And in holding your attention, porn alters your sexual tastes, porn shapes your sexual template, porn desensitizes you to real sex.
So don’t tell me that porn is free. If you’re pro-sex, you CANNOT be pro-porn.
Porn is diametrically opposite sex. It is an industry that co-opts and corrupts human sexuality for profit.
They don’t care if you develop fetishes. They don’t care if it causes PIED. They don’t care about you.
They only care about your pageviews.
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Kevin McKinley is the author of Pornfree: How To Quit Porn and Free Your Left Hand, a complete guide to quitting porn effortlessly. Take the free 5-day pornfree crash course at FreeLeftHand.com
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