[GeorgeTH]

Does actually anybody has reliable figures if the overall money spend on porn went up or down in recent years?

I did some stuff today which was interesting to this thread:
as many of you know I had to shut down my TGPs late last year for family reasons - today I went and cleaned out my emails (long overdue!) and cross-checked all the mails where people had approached me for a trade:
· about 70% of the sites were down
· almost ½ of the domains actually didn't exist anymore
· none of the remainders had any decent traffic!
= there's a good number of your newbies gone again!

Since I checked traffic for some sites (I am still looking for trades...) I also looked at Alexa's figures for established sites:
· almost every established site I can think of is down on traffic, either compared to 2002, or to late 2003!
= no wonder that TGPs are now charging for listings - I guess it's an important decision to substitute falling advertising revenue!

The other interesting thing: many TGPs actually went down in traffic right after they introduced paid submission spots! Question: lack of variety making them less attractive to surfers?

So where do the surfers go now?


edit: I have to go back to boring bookkeeping - just any excuse to get away from it would have done it - LOL!