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VentureBeat: Zivity, an adult social network, raises $1M before launch

  • Jimmy Huen · 2 years ago
    Would I pay for the privilege of voting for these pin-ups? I wouldn't. But I know there is a segment of population that will. The key is to nail down the pricing point where it is at the equilibrium. I love the monetized business model right out of the gate. Good job.

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  • Stephen Larson · 2 years ago
    Don't you have better things to cover than deals like this?
  • Tom Johansmeyer · 2 years ago
    I think these guys have a shot. The problem with the adult business right now is that they haven't figured out interesting or unique ways to get people to spend money online. If Adult Friend Finder is any indication, the future of adult entertainment online is going to be pay for services (particularly networking) rather than content. Zivity seems like the intersection of the two.
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  • Natalia Sokolova · 1 year ago
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  • Steven · 1 year ago
    A social network is based on a place where people can meet and spend time interacting online, and while the idea of a gated version that allows for adult content (because by default everyone has verified there age by paying to be there) would bring a lot of people to it (including those that wish to network and promote there other online ventures), the idea of paying to work, and not really being invested in there time there, will keep people away. Your "model" is already out of focus.
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  • Miller Harrison · 1 year ago
    I'm a little confused reading the article.

    "It’s not a porn site, such as the newer sites Eroshare (pictures) or Pornotube (vidoes). Rather, it likens itself to a mixture of MySpace and Playboy magazine with popularity/voting features thrown in."

    Why does Zivity say they are not a porn site? But they are like Playboy, a porn company.

    That doesn't make sense. And what's wrong with porn? Why not make a porn company and just be upfront about it?

    Zivity is a porn company. So what.
  • Paul · 1 year ago
    Yeah, but why would I want to give money to companies like Zivity for porn when there's so much high quality content available for free. I mean, why shell out dough when I can go to a nice site like http://pornzala.com and find whatever porn videos I want? Vertical search is 2.0 too, right?
  • Online Adult Business · 1 year ago
    I think that Playboy is only considered porn because it has been around so long and had to fight every step of the way to nude women in its pages.

    To me Nudity does not equal Porn. WalMart and I differ on the issue though as they stopped selleing even Maxim Magazine for being to racy.

    I think there is room in the "Amateur" fetish for a quality site to generate revenue from subscriptions however I doubt that it will be as much as they expect. More likely their base of income will come from ad revenue related to the free content they give away to non-members.
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  • Andre M - photography · 1 year ago
    I’m convinced their licensing model, based on member's votes, will attract some amazing models and photographers.

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  • adult myspace · 1 year ago
    Crazy how they raised 1 million for a adult social network when nobody has even to this day has ever heard of it.
  • Adults Social Networking · 1 year ago
    they raised before even launch, they must have won good trust to get fund.
  • gordo · 1 year ago
    PureCompanion.com is another new adult network site. They also use the model of giving some of the profits back. They let you charge for the videos you upload and you take 1/2 the money. You can browse this whole site though without getting the dreaded "Pay Now" screens like zivity and adultfriendfinder
  • Adult Social Network · 1 year ago
    Zivity seems like an interesting idea...but doesn't seem to me like it's worth a million...or ever will be.

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  • grumpy man · 2 months ago
    this adult social network invested over 2.2 mil before their launch check out http://www.xadultbook.com , a free version of zivity not based on monetization via paid voting it is simply a facebook setting for adults looking for fun, should be interesting to watch zivity and xadultbook battle it out.