Hello ADT forum! I started a few days ago a new project called Adult Target (http://adulttarget.com/). It will be like IMDB, but for porn. I'm planning to index, catalog and onrganize as much movies/videos I can. Why? I'm into porn business for more than 10 years and I always felt a huge lack of information from the movies and videos producers. Give it a try, search on Google a porn movie name, probably the first page will be filled with illegal download websites or porn tubes. And it really bothers me, because sometimes you just want to go to a website, find some information about this movie and eventually buy it from a legal retail store or even the producer itself. Other thing that drive me insane is that sometimes I can't find videos with a very specific fetish, for example, "Tits hanging from bra", or "Fucked with clothes on", or even something even harder like "Blowjob with ass up" - Believe me, it's a pain in the ass when you try to find something specific like this. And finally, it will be also a blog/magazine, so the users can be up to date with the most fresh and recent released videos/movies and upcoming events. That's why I created this project, to index the videos with the most specific details, so people can reach exactly what they want. I'm looking for partnerships with movie producers, studios and stores to make all video/movies pages with a "Buy" button, so my visitor will be able to download the video or buy the DVD from the right person, and not stealing it by downloading illegally. Well, I'm posting it here because I want to hear your opinions. What you think? What I can do to improve your experience and what you always look in a porn website and never finds? I'm not sure if I'm allowed to do this, so if any moderator don't agree with my post, please delete it! That's it! Thank you all, and I'm really looking forward to hear from you guys. Let me know what you think and what you want! Edited by - kuskka on Oct 21 2013 Edited by - kuskka on Oct 21 2013
There's something called IAFD that many on this forum already use: Internet Adult Film Database Link IAFD has been around for a while now, so if you want to get some traction on your project, you're going to have to do what IAFD has done, but do it a whole lot better. If I were to make a suggestion, I'd say you contact the webmaster of IAFD and work on finding ways to improve upon what they've done already. Seems to make a lot more sense than starting from scratch when there's already a pretty good database in use.
Yeah, and I also use imdb for porn titles, as they have a couple of people who have devoted their time to really thorough and informed reviews. I go to imdb specifically for dirtymoviedevotee (Dries Vermulen), in fact. People do complain about poor accuracy on both imdb and iafd - how would your new site avoid these inaccuracies? That's about the only thing I can think of that might differentiate your site.
I'm planning to get all infos straight from the producer/studio, not from third party agencies or persons. All the movies/videos published will be "curated", which means that every detail will be double-checked before publishing. Thanks for your suggestion!
^ But the majority of the studios and producers are defunct/dead/no longer in operation. That strikes me as entirely unfeasible. We're talking about thousands and thousands of films and people, and many of the films are almost impossible to find reliable information about.
You're absolutely right. What I have in mind is not to publish only movies with full details, but to publish the movies and adding details as we get them. Unfortunatelly is an impossible mission to know everything about every release, but we will give our best to do it. Just to add, currently I'm not much focused in content released before 2005. I'm not sure yet how what I'm going to do with older content.
The "fetish index" would be a great feature; but alas I think it'd be damn near impossible to do it without watching every movie yourself (or hiring someone to do the watching and note-taking). The producer/studio is not gonna have a database containing such a level of detail. Even websites that try to do such an index with only their own scenes (a few hundred scenes maximum) do a half-assed job of it. Edited by - ninja1 on 10/21/2013 7:31:07 PM
Sounds like a reasonable entrepreneurial endeavor. You never know what might be the next great website. I say, throw it against the wall and see if it sticks - so to speak. Depending on how its done - if you have the tools and the talent as a web designer and dress up the site with unique content and good info, good chance for success. IAFD, as was mentioned previously, is an excellent source of info and probably has the lion's share of the traffic as a "porn encyclopedia", if you will. It goes about it in the conventional way: sorting info by Star, Title, Studio, etc. I would say that most search by the starlet they like best - but not always. When it comes to the fetish thing, I personally (for example), am a big time cheerleader freak[:P)]. I do tend to hit up IAFD a lot - particularly the "scene pairings" - awesome feature they have there. Anyhow, sounds cool. Go for it and sometimes these things kind of morph into other ideas as you go along.
Hey KinkWilliams, thanks for the nice words! Yeah, it's quite a hard business with too much competition, but let's see what will happen. I'm having so much fun so far! And I'll make sure to post cheerleader stuff! ;)
It would take some real digging but it would be neat if you could mark each actress with their first time on film, first anal, first interracial etc. Kinda like baseball cards reference guides do Good idea and good luck !
data18 is also a great and modern adult database, they list also web scenes from all popular sites and often provide a few stills from the production companies
Excelent idea! Who you suggest to be the first actress? I was planning to do something similar with Alexis Texas as a pilot to see if people like. Edited by - kuskka on 10/23/2013 11:54:52 AM
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Based on your grasp of English and grammar, and the fact you had no clue about IAFD, I'm not confident you can pull it off. It sounds like just a fun hobby project to you, and I don't think you realize how massive a undertaking this would be, especially for just one person.
^ I doubt the perceived language barrier is the fundamental problem. IMO the sheer volume of work required is the biggest challenge. Doing a catalogue of attributes as specific as those mentioned in the original post for just one girl who's done 50+ scenes is a lot of work. A wiki based site may help by opening up the workload to more people though of course that opens it up to saboteurs as well.
^ Wikiporno is an attempt to do that, but it hasn't really taken off. I don't know what makes some sites take off, but I agree that it might be a good idea to find ways to get fans to do a lot of the cataloging.