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Mobile Porn isn’t quite on par with Ringtones yet

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Ringtones will always be bigger than mobile smut | The Register

Ringtones and music will always take a bigger slice of the mobile content market than games or erotica, according to an adult content aggregator.

Blake Fayling of Brick House Mobile said the introduction of age verification systems had made it easier to sell what the industry calls “erotica” or adult content – and you’d call mobile porn – in Europe.

Alex caught this one and, no doubt, like me, thought… hmmm… ringtones BIGGER than porn? Well, with the age ‘thing’, yes, I can understand that viewpoint.

2 COMMENTS

  1. hmm, I’m sure I remember a presentation by one of the operators where they said that premium sms market could be split pretty much evenly between infotainment, personalisation and adult.

  2. […] Mobile Porn isn’t quite on par with Ringtones yet Ringtones and music will always take a bigger slice of the mobile content market than games or erotica, according to an adult content aggregator. Blake Fayling of Brick House Mobile said the introduction of age verification systems had made it easier to sell what the industry calls “erotica” or adult content – and you’d call mobile porn – in Europe. […]

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