The Sexy Secret Market for Web Cams: Adult Websites
Arguably one of the most successful computer accessory markets over the past five years has been the emergence of low-cost, high quality webcams; adult entertainment provides one of the largest consumer bases for these products, and demonstrates how something as scandalous as the porn industry has brought mainstream retail into the business of the adult web cam market.
If you’ve ever been to a computer trade show in China, where millions of these adult cams are manufactured, you’ve seen the tables of hundreds of different models of web cams adult companies often use for setting up networks of hundreds of these cameras to allow a wide assortment of models to interact with customers on adult web cam sites.
When you consider how many hundreds of adult cam sites there are, and how many adult cams each one of these adult web cam sites consumes in a year, the number of web cams adult web site companies purchase every year must be in the hundreds of thousands. If an adult cam costs about $25 for an average usable model, that could be an industry worth tens of millions of dollars a year.
I’m sure that the manufacturers of adult web cam products don’t see themselves as a player in the porn industry, and surely they’d be hesitant to take any credit for the rising profit margins for adult media site that feature webcams. Adult business has often provided a backbone for many Internet and technology related companies, but never gets any credit from market analysts for its role in creating demand for emerging technologies. An adult web cam can be compared to DVD and even VHS media formats in the sense that it was the adult industry that quickly adopted an in many ways established a fertile market for these products while typical retail consumers waited to see if the technologies would become widely accepted. It seems to have become a proven method for successfully integrating a new technology into consumer culture: build a technology that the porn industry will adopt, and you’ve taken care of establishing the first mover.
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