$13.3 Billion U.S Porn Revenues Exceed Combined Sales of ABC, CBS, and NBC

by Jarrett Martineau | May 27, 2008 at 12:26 pm
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If there was any doubt about what's really driving the internet's economic engine, here's a hint: it's not online gambling. It's porn.
The pornographic industry (world) is larger than the revenues of the top technology companies combined: Microsoft, Google, Amazon, eBay, Yahoo!, Apple, Netflix and Earthlink.

There are 4.2 million porn websites (12% of total)

Daily, 65 million pornographic search engine requests are made (25% of total)
and 2.5 billion porn emails are send.

42.7% of internet users view porn. US Internet porn sales alone are $4.9 billion.

40 millions US Adults regularly visit internet porn websites (72% male-28% female)
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mindanarchist

i have no idea what you are talking about....there's porn on the internet?

BigT
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at 16:50 on May 27th, 2008

There's even a VC firm that invests in online porn. HERE

nukemdomis
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at 18:46 on May 27th, 2008

Jarrett Martineau,


This is nothing new to me.  Porn sites get tons, and tons of targeted traffic on the net.

This is a great summary... I like this story. It's good stuff.

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nunya

damn...you are all a bunch of horny, nocount, brokeass, perverted sacks of shit

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nunya

damn...you are all a bunch of horny, nocount, brokeass, perverted sacks of shit

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