> since people browse YouTube in a similar way, and would also benefit from them.
I'd be very surprised if people browse Youtube in the way they'd browse Pornhub. I can't say I spend much (any) time on the latter, but if I did I would search whatever thing I'm in the mood for, click on a thumbnail I like the look of, skip around the video till there's something I like, then spend the required amount of time watching before closing Pornhub completely.
On Youtube I could spend hours just clicking and watching (and listening to) videos about many different things.
> Porn innovates simply because it's a big market, with high competition.
Sorry, but it doesn't innovate. Just saying it innovates (in any real, significant sense) doesn't make it true.
There is also no "high competition". The company that owns PornHub is in fact well-known for owning virtually all major (non-webcam) porn websites, free and pay.
Aside from them and a couple of other major sites, most porn sites are tiny and generate relative chickenfeed in revenue.
You only have to go to the site GFY to see the laughable state of most of the porn 'industry'.
> According to Alexa, there are 4 video streaming sites in the top 100 sites worldwide. They are YouTube, Pornhub, Xvideos, and Xhamster.
There's also VK, Youku, OK RU, Twitch, Netflix. Maybe others. This is ignoring Facebook, with its billion+ members uploading and viewing videos constantly.
> VR is new technology on the way. Which sites do you think are going to be pushing VR streaming online?
Google and Facebook.
> I'm not trying to say that porn is some golden goose industry that drives the world forward. I'm simply saying they're a big part of video streaming online, and for that reason I expect them to be on the forefront of that niche.
Porn was a similarly "big" part of video offline, and images online, and was not responsible for any technological innovations at all in either of those realms - simply passively using whatever tech or gimmick others had come up with - so I don't expect online video streaming will be any different.
I'd be very surprised if people browse Youtube in the way they'd browse Pornhub. I can't say I spend much (any) time on the latter, but if I did I would search whatever thing I'm in the mood for, click on a thumbnail I like the look of, skip around the video till there's something I like, then spend the required amount of time watching before closing Pornhub completely.
On Youtube I could spend hours just clicking and watching (and listening to) videos about many different things.
> Porn innovates simply because it's a big market, with high competition.
Sorry, but it doesn't innovate. Just saying it innovates (in any real, significant sense) doesn't make it true.
There is also no "high competition". The company that owns PornHub is in fact well-known for owning virtually all major (non-webcam) porn websites, free and pay.
Aside from them and a couple of other major sites, most porn sites are tiny and generate relative chickenfeed in revenue.
You only have to go to the site GFY to see the laughable state of most of the porn 'industry'.
> According to Alexa, there are 4 video streaming sites in the top 100 sites worldwide. They are YouTube, Pornhub, Xvideos, and Xhamster.
There's also VK, Youku, OK RU, Twitch, Netflix. Maybe others. This is ignoring Facebook, with its billion+ members uploading and viewing videos constantly.
> VR is new technology on the way. Which sites do you think are going to be pushing VR streaming online?
Google and Facebook.
> I'm not trying to say that porn is some golden goose industry that drives the world forward. I'm simply saying they're a big part of video streaming online, and for that reason I expect them to be on the forefront of that niche.
Porn was a similarly "big" part of video offline, and images online, and was not responsible for any technological innovations at all in either of those realms - simply passively using whatever tech or gimmick others had come up with - so I don't expect online video streaming will be any different.