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the world's most profitable adult website, earning $6.6 billion a year, even olympic champions are doing it

2024-09-13

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sure enough, ghs is the primary productive force!

onlyfans, the world's second largest adult website, is a company with only 42 full-time employees, with revenue of a staggering $6.6 billion in 2023.

in comparison, openai, the world's hottest ai unicorn, has an annualized revenue of $3.4 billion.

even aylo, the industry giant that owns a bunch of adult websites and is the parent company of pornhub, has only half the revenue of onlyfans.

what's even more outrageous is that it distributed 80% of its revenue, or $5.3 billion, to the creators!

no wonder olympic champions are trying to get close to it; the "most beautiful athlete" at the paris olympics couldn't resist the temptation and posted a video on onlyfans.

even so, onlyfans still had an operating profit of $649 million after deducting various operating expenses.

a dou zong strongman is so terrifying.

80% of the income goes to the creators

olympic champions are here to play around

onlyfans is a young company that was founded in 2016. its performance was mediocre in the first few years, but it started to take off in 2020.

on the one hand, it is because of its ridiculously high profit sharing.

onlyfans gives 80% of the revenue to the creators and only takes 20%, which is quite conscientious among the current payment platforms that often take 50% of the revenue.

so much so that many cash-strapped young actors, models and even olympic champions from abroad have joined in.

at the paris olympics, the flag bearer of the cyprus team, 22-year-old high jump goddess elena kulichenko, was called the "most beautiful athlete" by many people because of her super high looks.

after the olympics, someone revealed that she had an account on onlyfans and would post some borderline fitness videos.

british diving star jack raffell won the men's synchronized three-meter springboard championship at the rio olympics and the tokyo olympics, and won a bronze medal at the paris olympics.

after the 2021 tokyo olympics, he secretly created an onlyfans account, posted some videos of trying on swimming trunks and underwear, and received considerable rewards.

previously, a brazilian volleyball player even said that the money she earned on onlyfans was 50 times what she earned from playing games.

on the other hand, onlyfans' unique subscription model provides creators and fans with great space for interaction.

fans can not only chat directly with creators, but also pay to customize content, such as specific costumes, special actions, special scenes...

as long as you spend enough money, all your requirements can be met and user participation will be maximized!

the difference between it and p站 is similar to the difference between live broadcast and recorded broadcast, live concert and blu-ray disc, playing games by yourself and watching the host play games, traveling to see the beautiful scenery and watching documentary channels at home.

some top creators even spend money to customize ai avatars to chat with fans and increase stickiness.

the share of creators

more than nba total salary

onlyfans’s rise in just a few years is also inseparable from the “assistance of friendly competitors.”

due to regulation, both reddit and tumblr banned adult content, causing a large number of creators to divert their fans to other platforms.

in 2020, pornhub also removed countless videos from unverified users, and the number of videos in its inventory dropped from 13.5 million to 3 million. many people's treasured masterpieces became unwatchable, and traffic plummeted.

thanks to many favorable factors, onlyfans' annual revenue will rapidly grow from us$300 million in 2019 to us$6.6 billion in 2023.

the share of the creators also soared from us$250 million to us$5.3 billion.

what does $5.3 billion mean? the total salary for the nba in the 2023-2024 season is $4.9 billion, and the total salary for the premier league is slightly less than $5.3 billion.

the familiar doll sister once had a monthly income of 2.36 million us dollars on onlyfans, which is more than 16 million yuan in rmb a month, enough to buy an apartment in the center of beijing, shanghai, guangzhou and shenzhen.

after she went bankrupt from cryptocurrency trading and her boyfriend ran away, she relied on onlyfans to make a comeback. for her, onlyfans is the best content creation platform in the world.

because it is so profitable, the number of creators on onlyfans is growing rapidly.last year, the number of users increased by 29% to 4.1 million, and the number of users also increased by 28% to 305 million.

of course, the biggest winner is the owner of onlyfans, who received $472 million in dividends in 2023 alone.

the company's majority shareholder is leonid radvinsky, a 42-year-old ukrainian-american entrepreneur who bought a 75% stake in onlyfans in 2018 when it was still a small company.

what a good vision.

the threat of onlyfans

because of its success, onlyfans inevitably attracted a large number of imitators.

websites such as 4myfans and fansly are similar to it in terms of registration page and operation methods, and some even give creators higher commissions.

just as the one who defeats wechat will not be another wechat, these websites cannot shake onlyfans's position. it poses three real threats.

the first is supervision. tumblr and pornhub are the best examples.

the second is the x platform. in june 2024, musk lifted the platform's ban on adult content. as a social media, it does not require users to open the browser with great effort.

the third is ai, which can satisfy almost all the fantasies of users.

there is motivation only when there is pressure. these threats can prompt onlyfans to provide better products and services.

of course, this has little to do with you all, i believe most of you don't watch these things...