Democratisation of Media

[miz_wright]

EJ, you're ahead of the market on many things - that doesn't mean the business as a whole is. AEBN launched a mobile site four years ago. It happens - there are always those who see what's coming and try to prepare for it. But until a level of critical mass is reached, it's simply playing Cassandra. You are one man, and though you appear to always be ahead of the game, one man is hardly a tipping point of critical mass across the industry as a whole.

I say this not to minimise your intelligence, because you are incredibly prescient. But the knowledge you've had and published and implemented hasn't always been embraced on a macro level, and that's where the fallacies begin to creep in.

Anywhere I give my credit card is dangerous - I have no idea what my waitress does with it when she walks away from my table. But I'm a lot less likely to be recognised by an anonymous card processor when I go to the Food Lion to buy my green beans than I am at the dingy shop on the corner - and I'm sure as fuck not getting leered at when I pick up Fashionistas online. And for a lot of people? That's the safety zone.

Perhaps you like collections - that's fine. Perhaps others don't (my partner will rarely put the same fuckflick in more than once; he may be an anomaly). There are options either way, is my point, but there is much more coming down the pike that we all need to be aware of. I'm not saying I have all the answers, nor am I holding up AEBN as the last bastion of answers in porn - though I think we all have to have some level of agreement that Scott Coffman is a brilliant man, when it comes to capitalising on markets as they break as a rule.

My point is the world is changing rapidly around us - technology half lives are incredibly brief now, and everyone has a lot to think about. I'm not excluding AEBN from this, nor am I singling any one out. I just think it's interesting food for thought from a consumer angle.