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| Lord Lucifer Deactivated User Sins of the flesh 1378 Posts 7/10 |  Posted - Dec 26 2012 : 6:35PMSo I was wondering what indicators to use when trying to measure a porn star's popularity. In Hollywood they use ticket sales from the box office along with DVD/Blu-Ray sales. That's the industry standard. In the music biz, we have the billboard charts & they also rank the highest grossing tours every year. But what about in porn? I guess best selling/renting/downloaded/streaming videos would be a good starting point, right? But there are so many sites that sell porn that you would have to compile tons of data from ALL of these sites. Perhaps awards, too? I guess the AVN's are like the Oscars of porn, but there are also some other prestigious awards in the biz, like F.A.M.E, XBiz, etc. So number of awards/nominations? Is there any way to better 'standardize' these ratings? Or should we start looking at it more like there are "A-listers" in porn, just like in Hollywood? How could we gauge the popularity within the industry objectively? Thoughts?  Jessica Bangkok [Link] |
| ninja1 Senior Member 2939 Posts 1/08 | Posted - Dec 26 2012 : 7:32PM [Link] |
| Cuddly Wombat Senior Member Just another bare bum in the shiower 1739 Posts 12/04 | Posted - Dec 26 2012 : 10:50PM Maybe by the number of google searches each performer gets in a year? You could do it by the total number of scenes shot in a particular year - but that would immediately leave out contracted performers who only do a set minimum number of scenes each year. [Link] |
HeyNow  Oblivious Gold Star Hey! 5965 Posts 1/03 | Posted - Dec 27 2012 : 12:48AM The ADT pricesearch most searched. Movies. Stars. And so on. https://www.adultdvdtalk.com/price_search/toprequests.asp All time and the last day. And you know what they say, as AdultDVDTalk.com goes, so goes the nation. Edited by - HeyNow on 12/27/2012 12:50:43 AM [Link] |
| pat362 Senior Member 10078 Posts 3/10 | Posted - Dec 27 2012 : 9:39AM [Link] |
| Dan Senior Member 2056 Posts 6/07 | Posted - Dec 27 2012 : 9:41AM I've read somewhere on the internet that some legitimate businesses determine the popularity of their products by looking at the piracy of their products. The products that are copied and sold illegally are the ones most likely to be popular. I don't know if any porn-makers are doing their research this way. But there is actually a lot of useful information they can find at pirated porn websites. These sites show statistics of how many views a video got and even ratings from viewers. And since users don't pay anything there, prices don't influence their choices. They choose purely according to their sex likes and dislikes. I'm not advocating piracy here. But the information is already out there, and I think it can be useful to find out what kind of films are popular. And nowadays there are some websites with GIF format clips that show less than a minute of some sex act. Ordinary users are making these clips and posting them on these websites. And I think they are useful for finding out what sex acts are currently most popular. All you need to do is google 'GIF porn', and you will find some such websites. In the first website that comes up in this search, the Blowjobs category has more posts than any other. The Tits category is second. And the Anal category is third. Which means that when it comes to penetrative sex, then anal sex is more popular than vaginal. [Link] |
| Lord Lucifer Deactivated User Sins of the flesh 1378 Posts 7/10 | Posted - Dec 27 2012 : 3:56PM But thanks for all the feedback! Iguess video sales/rentals/streaming/VOD is still the main indicator. Wish it could be streamlined 2 factor in other things, like twitter followers or awards/nominations. Jessica Bangkok [Link] |
| LCF All-Star Member Non Prevalebunt! 10364 Posts 1/05 | Posted - Dec 27 2012 : 4:27PM so yes piracy would be a good way for measures , boxcover could also be , if you have a star in a movie and a movie with her as main cover picture sells a lot and the one with her in second line sells less you may guess she is in demand [Link] |
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