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Philippines ranked #8 on Worldwide Porn Revenues

With about $1 billion in annual revenues, the Philippines is tied at No. 8 with Canada and Taiwan for the largest revenues from pornography in 2006. This is according to the Internet Pornography Statistics report by Jerry Ropelato of Top Ten Reviews. For a poor 3rd 2nd world country, that’s something, huh?

The top 3 on the list is headed by Asia with China, South Korea and Japan bringing in a combined $73 Billion in annual sales for 2006. This is followed by the US, Australia, UK and Italy.

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The Philippines, tanked over Php50 Billion (exchange rate at that time hovered between Php49 to Php53) despite the fact that per capita income was only $11.18, the lowest of the top 10. It’s not indicated how these numbers are split up between online and offline sales — magazines, video sales and rentals, internet or cable.

With PlayBoy Philippines coming into the magazine market, the numbers could only go up.

Here are some additional figures revealed from that research:

Every second – $3,075.64 is being spent on pornography
Every second – 28,258 Internet users are viewing pornography
Every second – 372 Internet users are typing adult search terms into search engines
4.2 million porn websites (12% of total websites)
68 million porn-related search requests daily (25% of total search engine requests)
1.5 billion porn-related downloads a month from P2P networks (35% of all downloads)
42.7% of internet users have viewed porn online (that’s like almost all of the male population!)

There are exceptions of course since some countries are actively banning porn related materials (offline and online): Saudia Arabia, Iran, Syria, Bahrain, Egypt, UAE, Kuwait, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, Kenya, India, Cuba, China.

Here are some inside info shared to me by people I met who used to work for that industry in the Philippines:

  • The top 2 largest web hosting companies operating in the Philippines are servicing the “adult” industry.
  • The largest adult video and internet content outsourcing company is located in Makati owned by an Indian and American nationals. Stacks of DVD shipped to Manila for raw videos to be edited and websites developed 24/7.
  • Some content are actually created locally here in Metro Manila. They’ve been raided several times but some say they’ve struck a deal with someone in the upper levels.
  • Cookie-cutter porn websites are outsourced to freelance web designers that starts at $1,000 a pop. This figure has declined over the years due to market competition.

Through the years, I’ve been getting tons of opportunities to provide web hosting services to the adult and the online gambling (read: poker) industry but declined despite the seemingly very lucrative market.

But then again, is this even a new story? I think everybody already knows about this industry already.

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Abe is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of YugaTech with over 20 years of experience in the technology industry. He is one of the pioneers of blogging in the country and considered by many as the Father of Tech Blogging in the Philippines. He is also a technology consultant, a tech columnist with several national publications, resource speaker and mentor/advisor to several start-up companies.

26 Responses

  1. Avatar for Denver Nario Denver Nario says:

    This is interesting. :)

  2. Avatar for Lexon Uller Lexon Uller says:

    Hey, excellent article! I will bookmark this one! Cheers

  3. Avatar for jay jay says:

    I just wanna ask if how much is the fines if you commit case from porn in our country ( Philippines ) and is this illegal job that if you are selling porn? Thru chat is the way of marketing.

  4. Avatar for unknown_guy unknown_guy says:

    Grabe! ibig sabihin lang nito na maraming malilibog dito sa Pilipinas. Tapos only christian country kuno sa buong asia, tapos libog-libog naman ng mga tao dito. Parang wala tayong pinagbago mula sa panahon ni Rizal — Hypocrito pa rin!

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  6. Avatar for makemoney makemoney says:

    Very informative! Great post!

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