Different from porn sites, adult community and adult social networking sites have a certain threshold and treaties, open only to adults, but also in the content of convenience, not just large-scale pictures and videos, mature adult community and adult social networking site also created social culture, has a positive meaning. Next, we tell you to introduce some of the more mature adult and popular social networking sites or adult communities.
Burning Angel
Joanna Angel known as the American adult industry's most successful start-up entrepreneur, she founded an alternative adult sites "Burning Angel", and focus on sociability in the process to build the website, which has won a lot of loyal users.
Burning Angel stand out, because it provides adult content, and the traditional "Playboy" is not the same kind of naked and exposed. Other adult sites tend to focus on rendering model measurements for size, but Burning Angel used another way, as "adult alternative (alt-porn)" originator: its use of the models are punk rock girls, they like hair and piercing hanging ring, in In addition to front of the camera body tattoos wearing very little.
Joanna Angel has told the media that she does not like "adult alternative" is called. She said: "It just means that different adult content as 'alternative music', refers only to the kind of music is different from the mainstream music but I think the 'alternative adult content', differs from traditional adult content, except. depending on the specific content, as well as social functions and cultural content behind. "
Burning Angel's success did not happen overnight, because focusing on social features and cultural connotations, but also to Burning Angel is different from adult sites. Of course, Burning Angel also provide pictures and video, but the site also hosts live events online and offline, and has an active online forum for users to discuss music, tattoos or popular culture. Because they can interact with other users (or performers), allowing subscribers to access the site again and again.
Faced with competition on the Internet a variety of free adult content, Burning Angel must make money in several ways. The site's main revenue comes from user subscription fee, followed by the sale of DVD, events, live performances, sales of brand clothing. Burning Angel even launched its own brand of adult toys.
Burning Angel's subscription fee is $ 29.95 per month, $ 68.95 per quarter, or $ 95.40 per year. Three-day trial period cost is $ 3. Number of unique visitors to the site every day is 30,000, after back online, the data began to grow. In terms of user base, Burning Angel has about 60,000 active users, and due to the social philosophy of the site insisted on the operation, after the user browse the site content will communicate with each other.
FriendFinder Networks
American male adult magazine Penthouse, can only be sold in pornographic bookstores. Penthouse was founded in the 1960s, its founder is an adult magazine magnate Bob · Gu Sini. In 1965, the first phase Penthouse first appeared on British newsstands, and then enter the United States more Penthouse in 1969, less than six months, it relied on bold, explicit pornography, occupied a considerable share of the US adult magazine market, become a "Playboy" major competitors.
According to sources, the adult magazine Penthouse publisher FriendFinder Networks on September 7, 2013, filed for bankruptcy protection. The company said the bankruptcy file, in hopes of reducing the debt burden of loan repayment after the company encountered some difficulties.
FriendFinder Networks submitted to bankruptcy court documents show that the holding company's debt estimated at between 500 million to 1 billion US dollars, while assets of less than $ 10 million. In addition to the well-known Penthouse, FriendFinder adultfriendfinder also operates other sites.
Thomson Reuters financial data show that, at least since 2008 FriendFinder realized there would be no net profit. Today's court filings show that as of June 2013, 30 of the four fiscal quarters, the company's total revenue of $ 293.7 million as well.
FriendFinder in the document also said: "Although users still access the amount of interest is very high, but the company has not paid some money to the holder of the first overall bill, you can not pay the second pick Noteholders cash, according to their respective contractual these constituted a breach of contract. "FriendFinder noted that agreement has been reached with the restructuring of the balance sheet of some senior debt creditors, the company has started bankruptcy protection to implement the recapitalization plan.
In 2010, the main competitor of Playboy Entertainment company had $ 210 million offer to acquire FriendFinder, but the deal broke down later.
Playboy U
Has 54-year-old veteran of the magazine Playboy, again targeting the young college students, launched a college students social networking site which named Playboy U, similar to Facebook function.
"This is a relationship between the brand owner of 18-81 years," Scott Stephen, executive vice president of Playboy Entertainment, said, "We are doing is to guide and lead those young adults who walk into their adult life."
Playboy once before fawn over student groups, and now management wants Playboy U able to re-establish brand loyalty among young consumers these groups.
"Your brother can not come in, your sister can not come in, your parents do not row."
Website has a set of policies aimed at college students, must be invited to sign up, each registered user can get a e-mail address ending in .edu, Playboy U also said that the introduction of university faculty, staff, alumni, students, and so non-person.
"This is a lucrative market," Susquehanna Investment senior media analyst Michael Kelman said, "Students are receiving a good education and will have more disposable income, but this is a very, very difficult for the community."
Playboy is being gradually restored in recent years, profitability, partly because Playboy frequently take the initiative. Last year the company eked out a 2.3 million profit, which is a loss of 47.6 million since 2000 been one of the few good performance, the company has been profitable so far this year 5.7 million, and the momentum is fairly reassuring.
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