It’s hard for people outside the adult industry to get a sense of who the real players on the skinternet are. Forget Playboy, major magazines, hipster community sites, blogs or (heaven forbid) AJAX interfaces. The real action is, and always has been, free content sites.
TGP’s (Thumbmnail Gallery Posts) – sometimes referred to as link dumps – who provide links to the kind of pictures you normally only see at an FBI bachelor party, and make money from advertising websites who pay a bounty on each new customer they send.
One of the biggest TGP’s – ‘The Hun’ publishes its statistics for all to see. The numbers give a clear sense of just how large the market for sex is. With a single webpage, a design which dates to the late nineties, and a lot of smut, they’re consistently attracting 3 million unique visitors a day.
While it’s easy to laugh at the simplicity of ‘The Hun‘, or attribute their success to sex-content, it’s worth remembering how much competition they face, and that they managed to build a simple, easy to use, content driven site – without MBA’s – that’s been working, unchanged, since 1996. They are richer than you.
Investigate the numbers here. If you visit the site, don’t click on anything you might not be ready for.
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