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Report: Mobile Adult Content To Hit $4.9 Billion By 2013

Juniper Research has lowered its forecast for adult mobile service revenues in 2008 to $2.2 billion, 3.5 percent lower than the analyst had previously forecast. Before you go supporting Larry Flynt and Joe Francis in their request for a porn-industry bail-out the market was $1.62 billion in 2007, so still grew at an estimated 36 percent according to Juniper. The analyst predicts that the worldwide mobile adult market will hit $4.9 billion by 2013, with a large increase coming from video chat services which are predicted to surpass $1 billion in 2011, with low penetration being offset by high spending levels—in many markets averaging several hundred dollars per user per annum. Some countries such as Indonesia and Switzerland are tightening laws governing adult content, but in Europe and Latin America it’s becoming far more prevalent. Western Europe will remain the biggest market, followed by the Far East.

Jan 8, 2009 5:39 PM ET
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Posted In: Entertainment, Adult, Research & Metrics

  • In times like this, perhaps the most important industry we can bail out is the porn industry.  At least we know they won't blow it on private jets.

  • I believe the adult industry has in fact lost market share so moves like going mobile is what is needed. But let's face it, this hunger for porn will never die completely, the human animal is inside all of us and for as long as that is, there will always be a need and want for this industry. Still, if Larry Flynt and Joe Francis' claim for a bailout was just a publicity stunt it sure as hell worked!
    - J Allen
    www.sexarise.com

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