Xtube's business model hopes to harness popular Web 2.0 innovations like wikis and social networking. 'How you keep users on your site and how you monetize the site is the real challenge. 'Everybody has got free porn,' said Justin Arilan, XTube's sales and support manager. XTube, which also offers thousands of free videos, thinks it has solved the problem of getting people to pay for porn by offering users something different. With so much free media available on the Internet, sites have long struggled with how to get users to pay for content, whether it is Facebook, the Wall Street Journal or the band Radiohead.Īs it has in the past, the porn industry is showing others how to make the Internet profitable. While plenty of amateur pornographers or exhibitionists have posted their work online for free, some do-it-yourself pornographers are now posting videos to a new section of the video-sharing site - and making money on it.
I'd say I'm nice looking, sure, but otherwise I'm pretty average.'ĭespite not being a porn star, Antoinette's films are explicit displays of hardcore intercourse that if released in cinemas would earn a 'XXX' billing. I don't want to be a porn star,' she said.
