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Pete Zaface
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3064 Posts
8/03
Posted - Jun 5 2005 : 12:37PM
'll ask this question via an example and invite responses from the perspectives of both buyers/renters and video store owners.

I frequently see Playboy magazines distributed within certain geographic areas that have promos on the covers touting a local angle inside the magazine. For example, an issue with a "College Girls" pictorial might have a sticker on the outside pointing out that one of the girls featured in that pictorial is from a local institution. Other examples include similar stickers on magazines distributed in a particular state advertising that the Playmate of the Month is from that state. I figure that if such promotions weren't effective in increasing sales at least marginally, we wouldn't continue to see them.

Now to the porn angle: There are a ton of porn stars from the Sallas area: Raylin, Alyssa Love, Katie Gold, Shae Sweet, Lil Bit/Rain-ah, Delaney Daniels, Melonie/Melanie Stone, Sara/Cherry/Stryc-9/Stryc Nine, Nadia Moore, Shannon O'Day ....

Let's say you frequent New Fine Arts or New Fine Arts West in Dallas. Would you be more liable to rent or buy tapes with a girl from Dallas in them? If you owned the store, would it be worth your while to set aside tapes featuring
Dallas girls, or have a list of Dallas girls and the tapes they're in, or in some other way localize your product in this fashion?

The question is phrased in terms of Dallas, but it could apply anywhere there's a retailer who's able to make the connection between a girl on the box and his locale.

Speaking as a consumer, I'd gravitate toward such displays, and I'd use my geographic connection with some girls as a criterion in my rentals. But then again, I've proven to myself time and again over the years that I don't think like most people. ;) What say ye?

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9/04
Posted - Jun 5 2005 : 2:57PM
Pete,

I think it's a touchy issue. Some girls may not care, but alot of girls in porn would rather you not know their location or hometown.

The only times I have experienced a positive reaction to this is the porn girls that go on the road to dance. But those girls are keen at promoting themselves, and us their video stardom to obtain feature dancer status and the like.

Also, Playboy probably still sells like 100,000 magazines (or what have you), where a certain porno movie sells significantly less. So even making stickers to put on the DVD would be costly. Maybe a series titled "Dallas amateurs" or "Wild Tapma Girls" would do well in that specific area, but it might possibly alienate other areas, unless the girls were smokin'!

I agree it would help out overall sales of a video in a region, but the girls themselves would have nothing to gain from it. New Fine Arts kicks ass at marketing and has some nice stores, so maybe they could keep track of the featured dancers in the area and start a section.


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