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The business models that seem to work in porn are either:

1) Provide lots of free content, get users to upload it themselves and just be on hand to deal with DMCA takedowns etc. SEO the hell out of your site with every technique you can get your hands on, finance it with aggressive ads and concentrate your efforts on a/b testing to get the maximum number of ad clicks.

2) Produce high quality , unique content and charge for access. You need very regular updates (almost daily) and you need somebody full time issuing DMCA takedown notices in order to beat the pirates. Basically you need to make it easy for your customers to just sit back and fap rather than combing tube sites and closing popups to find the content they want.

It also seems to help if you can somehow sell it as "art porn" so that people won't feel embarrassed recommending it to their friends. Also perhaps build a community around the porn in some way.

Note: I don't work in porn, so I don't know too much but this seems to be my observations based on which sites stick around.




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