@Pumeco:

Your theory may seem logical to an extent, based on the average assumption that these conversations tend to draw from the regular forumites here. However, I've been doing a bit of site research and the numbers don't reflect your logic. In fact, as I see it, they completely contradict it. 

Of the top 7 Poser-related marketplaces that I'm aware of, Daz and Renderosity are statistically the most visited and carry the highest estimated revenue (and thus value), by a landslide over all the other 5.

Now, one thing that must be understood here is that these values are statistical estimates and vary greatly from one stats counter to the next based on daily and monthly traffic averages and several other factors (seo, ranking, etc). However, the data given remains proportionately the same regardless of which stats counter I use. 

The 7 sites that I've researched, in order of most visited to least visited:

daz3d: Monthly unique visitors: Over 1m (does not allow adult content)

renderosity: Monthly unique visitors: Over 1m (does not allow adult content)

runtimedna: Monthly unique visitors: Approx. 500K (does not allow adult content)

contentparadise: Monthly unique visitors: Approx: 200K(does not allow adult content)

renderotica: Monthly unique visitors: less than 100K (allows most all explicit content)

maleposerotica: Monthly unique visitors: Approx. 20K (does not currently have a marketplace, but allows explicit adult content)

poseraddicts: Monthly unique visitors: less than 20K (allows explicit adult content)

 

I didn't include monthly revenue estimates for any of these sites, but the traffic should answer those questions for you if you're interested. I'm also not aware of all poser-related sites, and I deliberately left out any sites that distribute unlimited content for a flat monthly membership, as that would not give any indication of the type of content that is most popular, since there's no way to really guess what content is being used most from such sites. 

If you'd like to pull your own stats, just google site values indicator and you'll get dozens of links to sites that will estimate the traffic and net worth of any site you're curious about. I'm sure you will come to relatively the same stats as I have regardless of which combination of sites you use to check. 

So, if it were true that adult content dominated Poser, then the adult-oriented sites should reflect that in their statistics and be much closer to the top of the list than they currently are.

Bottom line is, if the content and the figure is built with quality, it will sell and be used. There are vendors I know of personally who only create male content (both adult and general interest), and make very nice livings doing it without ever needing to make a single piece of female clothing. 

 

~Shane