tammix

We now have plenty of free Hard porn in tubes, torrents and Usenet. And free "light porn" in My Space, YouTube and Facebook (a highly growing trend). It seems availability of content is now taken for granted,.... so what's else to make money in this business?

I have read here and there that audiences have stopped to be passive and they are
becoming more "content producers" and "mashing-up" things (mixing different contents to create customized, creative things). Could this be a trend that in a couple of years be a standard in porn?

Let me explain myself a little. I have seen in some free boards a growing trend in photoshoping images. Posts like "fake my girlfriend" or "celebrity fakes" are now more commonly found as categories where there is more demand (I want you to fake this) than there is offer to do it. That is, not everybody is apt currently to mash-up that image with that other image. Using photoshop is a technical challenge for many yet.

So as you see getting porn is not hard these days, there is abundant, plently of it, especially since it's FREE. So it seems most surfers want now to move to another level of EXPERIENCE, interacting with porn (hence the growing segment of virtual and cam sites).

So I guess CONTENT will not be our only business in the next years, but creating easy to use applications to bring the mash-up spirit to a level of new fantasy satisfaction. Ok, the compulsive buy (I want that pic, that video NOW) will persist as PREMIUM content to make money, no doubt about it. But there will also be a demand for innovative ways to help the surfer to reach sexual gratification AND DIFFERENT EXPERIENCES.

So my question could be this: is there a market for easy-to-use porn software and -in specific- for porn apps? (I can think now of the success of Facebook apps and the growing segment of photo editing apps where you can clone and play with your friends pics). Can it be a business model really? How to charge for that?

Perhaps some of you have though also about all of this, what I call the "next level" or Porn 2.0 ...It will be interesting to see if anyone has already some offers for this and your experience so far.

PS By the way, some of you may be aware also about the "Japan Story" with manga, which was reported by the NYT this week. The audience production and download of manga content is now a hit that is bringing a lot of money to the cell and editorial companies, according to the Times, highlighting women as the top consumers (which tend to like "reading" manga more that "seeing" manga compared to men)