AdultVest — investment community for adult industry

December 21, 2005 | Matt Marshall | Comments | |
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Figures this group, called AdultVest, would be based in Southern California. Sand Hill Road, the main drag here in Silicon Valley for venture capital firms, is a bit too chaste for this sort of thing.

As Jeff says, the statistic, if it is accurate, that 25% of all searches are for porn, is staggering.

Accounting for approximately 25% of all search engine requests, on a planet that has a population exceeding 6 billion people, the adult industry clearly has a global demand. You would think that there would be a large population of people who are begging to invest in the companies that create some of their favorite adult products, services, and content. However, there has never been resource available to the investment community that would enable investors to look at adult industry investment deals; and because approximately 98% of the estimated $57 Billion Dollar Adult Industry consists of privately held companies, there is no easy way for investors to even find these companies. That is where AdultVest.com comes in…

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  • Sounds like we're in the wrong business! I was excited to read about how Trulia and IGenHome could change the face of Real Estate searching however as an industry I don't think that we'll ever account for %25 percent of all searches. Staggering!
  • Everyone uses craigslist for hooking up..
  • The big problem is its tough to monetize this traffic as almost 99% of the adult searchers are looking for free content and its almost impossible to convince them to open their wallet...

    This is the reason the conversion ratios of most adult sites (guess its around 0.001%) are well bellow that of mainstreem ecommerce sites (around 1%)
  • Interesting information. Currently, we only have direct links to dating services on our directory - browsr.com
  • Well, no doubt the adult industry is Big. And 98% of all adult companies are privately owned (Ours is)
    We'll see about these adultvest people. They have yet to prove themselves in an industry that is rife with scams.
    I'm keeping an open mind, and I'm hopeful they are real, but for the past 2 years I've been watching them, they haven't shown me anything.
  • Our company is privately owned as well, we would be open to investors that would really like to make money with us in the Adult Industry. The problem that we have noticed with some Investors is that they do not really understand how the industry works think that once they make the investment they will take over and run a business that they do not understand and think that female talent is at their beck and calling. I have witnessed this first hand, from one of my personal friends who lost her adult business because she chose poorly in who she let invest in her company.