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How could there be there be a NetFlix for porn??? Everything is already available for free.

We launched "Netflix like" Pornhub Premium last year. We license thousands of scenes from all the top producers. It's $9.99 a month with a free trial (real free trial, not the normal porn stuff where they charge you anyway). It's closer to say Hulu Plus though because you also get the regular Pornhub content without the ads and better quality.

"It's closer to say Hulu Plus though because you also get the regular Pornhub content without the ads and better quality."

That by itself could be a great market. Porn sites are notorious for inefficient, disgusting, and sometimes malicious advertisements. Getting the product without all that for low cost would appeal to many. I'm curious what the actual numbers are on one of the highest, trafficked sites. It could provide a nice, upper bound on what others might expect with their actual results being lower unless they're a niche operator like Kink.

I can't disclose revenue numbers but Pornhub Premium gets a few thousand new active members a day.

Personally I have two issues with subscribing to that: I don't want what I view traceable to me (hence I always use porn mode in my browser) and I wouldn't be comfortable handing my CC to a porn site, because I assume it would be very difficult to cancel.

Those are common stigmas we face with the subscription service. We are trying to leverage our brand to make it as trustworthy as possible.

What are your hiring practices? Do you mostly work with recruiters?

Not often no. I posted in yesterday's hiring thread. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12846216

Not at all. Nothing is available in full HD. Torrent are hard to find and die quickly.

But everything for movie and TV show is available for free easily but still everything is working great for Netflix.

Not at all. Nothing is available in full HD. Torrent are hard to find and die quickly.

Actually they are available - including 4k, even VR - just not on public trackers :)

If you can't compete on price, you compete on service and quality

Yeah the free sites are owned by the same German company, they basically jack your material as soon as it hit DVD, now that doesn't happen because they destroyed 90% of the industry.

Just like TV shows..

Nah. TV shows can be hard to find (especially right after release) and of variable quality, plus the sites can be very shady with worse ads/adware than all porn sites combined [not to mention that they tend to be closed or ISP blocked fairly often].

Porn is reliably served by many _respectable_ sites.

'hard to find, as in, ' two second search on TPB or opening popcorntime'?

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