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JT69
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Posted - Mar 8 2005 : 10:01PM
does anyone know the revenue statistics of the adult industry? Someone told me that it brings in more money than the NFL, NBA, NHL and baseball combined. Links and detailed break outs would be great. TIA
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Posted - Mar 8 2005 : 10:48PM
hmmm... this doesn't make *any* sense to me. do you have an idea how much money is involved in any one of those N's you've listed?
DVDwishes
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Posted - Mar 8 2005 : 10:57PM
whoever told you this either took one too many happy pills that day or didn't take the right type of medication. the adult film industry is HUGE, true, but even it can't topple the likes of the NFL. and no matter how many middle-aged white men get tired of the NBA and switch on over to NASCAR that won't knock it down either lets not even talk about the MLB situation.

not until the adult film industry gets its act together and has one huge oversight committee like Hollywood has the National Academy of Film Sciences, will it ever make that type of hard cash. besides which there is no overseas distribution net that they have that comes close to what the mainstream film industry has.

a few billion is one thing, but several billion is quite another.

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Posted - Mar 8 2005 : 11:06PM
I think this has been discussed many times. JT69, use the search function on the upper right of the screen. Welcome to the forum.

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lorein
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Posted - Mar 8 2005 : 11:53PM
Due to the HUGE single population of males in the 21st century, the porno industry is cashing up big time. That is what I heard.
 
BrandonCruz
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Posted - Mar 9 2005 : 12:03AM
Whats the number they like to throw around on dateline? 11 Billion? I dunno seems kinda high...
Stupid Ass
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Posted - Mar 9 2005 : 7:58PM
billions with a capital bill.
hgonline
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Posted - Mar 9 2005 : 8:39PM
After a little research, here's what Fox Sports reports:
NHL---2 billion
MLB---4.1 billion
NBA---3.1 billion
NFL---4.8 billion
TOTAL-- 14 billion

This is yearly revenue. I have heard the same 11-12 billion revenue on the adult industry. Guess its close and in comparison to the HUGE amount of exposure each league gets compared to adult, not bad.

sir wankalot
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Posted - Mar 9 2005 : 8:43PM
I heard the porn industry was bigger than all the US tv networks put together.

Unfortunately, i have no idea how much money these networks make. More or less than NHL/NBA/NHL?

hgonline
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Posted - Mar 9 2005 : 8:45PM
Guess its time to research that!
Ejac
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Posted - Mar 9 2005 : 9:15PM
I've read stats that report porn brings in more $$ than ALL of the N's combined .

It's also my understanding that some of the major networks have recently become involved, due to enormous profits.

The adult industry ain't like it was 10, 20 years ago - this is a very lucrative business.

JT69
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Posted - Mar 9 2005 : 9:17PM
Thanks for the stats. If you include prostitution, magazines, toys, etc. the sex industry would be well over the revenues of the sports teams combined. No?
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Posted - Mar 9 2005 : 9:18PM
Too bad that amount is split up between like 5 million companies!

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tdb
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Posted - Mar 9 2005 : 9:20PM
I remember hearing on the news a couple years ago what the original poster stated, that indeed the porn industry brings in more money than the four major pro sports (NFL, NBA, MLB, and NHL) combined.
LadyB
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Posted - Mar 9 2005 : 9:30PM
Exactly JT69....

It's not like "the porn industry" is all one huge conglomerate like the NFL or the NBA. I'm not saying that there aren't some companies that make multi-millions a year - Vivid being one - but most are smaller companies making a million or two each, or even less.

Add to that the fact that most production companies (like most new businesses mainstream or adult) will lose money for the first two years? Then you have the ones tht never even get off the ground.

Let's face facts - it might sound like fun to own a porn company. You might think that you'll make a million on one movie. But the odd are that you are going to lose money for a while, and then you aren't going to be pulling in multi-millions with so many slices of the same porn pie sharing the consumers.

 
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Posted - Mar 9 2005 : 9:40PM
Any statistic purportedly relating to the adult industry as a whole is made up out of thin air. The $11 billion claim and the bigger-than-NFL-etc. claim are simply repeated in news reports because they have previously been cited in other news reports.
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Posted - Mar 9 2005 : 9:52PM
you're the lucky winner here!

MLB, the NBA, and NFL are organizations which have boards of directors and other companies on them which relate to the teams. there is NO organizaed adult film industry head and I think most of the heads of the largest companies would rather kill each other then work together and make some real money.

you guys are really lost fanboys if you're thinking the porn industry could topple a major league organization, LEGAL mind you, like anyone of those that afore mentioned companies. and I say "legal" because if a certain few get their way porn will be very illegal here in the US soon.

BrandonCruz
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Posted - Mar 9 2005 : 11:37PM
yeah, but so will baseball...
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Posted - Mar 10 2005 : 1:04AM
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