Who's making all of the money in the porn industry? | The Global Story

Every day, tens of thousands of hours of pornographic content are uploaded to the internet. At peak times, 10% of internet traffic is people watching porn. But who is making money from it, and how?

Journalist Patricia Nilsson of the Financial Times has spent the past six years absorbed in this industry - chasing down its money men. She speaks with The Global Story’s Tristan Redman about how they’ve changed not just the porn we watch online, but the entire internet.

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0:00 Introduction
0:42 Why Patricia Nielsen started investigating the porn industry
2:42 How Wall Street took control of the porn industry
4:13 The golden age of porn in 1970s and 80s California
6:34 How free online porn changed the industry
7:07 The man who transformed the online porn business
10:13 Why porn industry figures were angry with Fabian Tilmann
11:49 How Wall Street funded the rise of Pornhub
14:41 How affiliate marketing turned online attention into money
17:42 How porn’s business model spread across the internet
19:22 Who took control of Pornhub after Fabian Tilmann?
22:51 The search for Pornhub’s secret owner
27:52 How smartphones and personal data changed online porn
32:07 How OnlyFans changed the porn industry and the internet
35:06 What porn’s business model tells us about AI
36:50 How investigating porn changed Patricia’s view of the internet

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