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Adult content – alright we’ll say the word, porn – has been a massive driver of media technology-certainly since the 1980s, and probably well before. Japanese woodblock printers were churning out erotic shunga as far back as the 10th century. In 2018, adult video giant Pornhub had 92 million visits per day and delivered over 4403 petabytes of data. Yet, when we talk about industry trends and online video success stories, the adult industry is completely absent from our conversations. The truth is, if you are publishing video online, you are not only competing with Netflix and YouTube, you’re competing with Pornhub and xHamster. So this issue takes a long, hard look at the adult video industry. To pretend that it doesn’t exists is bad business practice, and to think that you can’t learn something useful from it, is arrogance. We learned that there are some visionary filmmakers out there, doing fascinating work and struggling bravely against the dominance of video super-platforms – the same story we hear in every other part of the industry. We hope you come away from this issue with a new understanding of one of the most powerful drivers for tech and content in the online world. Also in the issue, we take a look at the production of a BBC show in which all the stars are completely naked – we’re talking about Blue Planet Live , of course. The show garnered rave reviews and employed some stunning technical expertise to deliver the animal nakedness from around the world to prime-time family audiences. It also featured a camera flying through a cascade of actual snot. Yes, I know. Disgusting. But at FEED we try to keep an open mind.
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