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You'd be surprised if you went to meetings with porn business companies in Japan. Stylish offices, elegant suits, great manners, no hint of actual porn anywhere
by jwr 15y ago
You'd be surprised if you went to meetings with porn business companies in Japan. Stylish offices, elegant suits, great manners, no hint of actual porn anywhere. In fact, you could easily confuse the office with an investment bank.
- arethuza 15y agoI once had a surreal meeting with a hotel chain where they mentioned they had detailed management reports on stuff like the average time films are watched for and that they had a graph showing how long porn movies are watched for. This was all being discussed in the context of a fairly formal business meeting.
- geoffw8 15y agoI used to work with a company who provide most of the network/software/hardware for hotels/airports/tran stations/lobbies around the world. Some very interesting insights from the hotels side of things.
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- DavidChouinard 15y agoCare to share?
- geoffw8 15y agoWish I still had the data on hand - as you would imagine - mostly porn.
- nooneelse 15y agoOk, I'm feeling rather naïve and waking up slowly this morning. Why do they care to know that? I mean, what about their business does that help them improve? Because, I think we can take it somewhat for granted that such information probably isn't something which the individuals involved, their customers in this situation, enjoy knowing is being collected about them. "Hey, you know that activity you probably consider rather private, we like to record everything about it we easily can, because umm... customer service." If I kept track of the porn watching habits of my neighbors, that would be considered strange and maybe rather pervy. And I don't see how it makes a difference in that evaluation whether they are or aren't renting the tv they use from me.
- simcop2387 15y agoIt probably lets them know how long the movies they produce should be. If it's too long before any action is in there then people move on. If it's not long enough then the customer doesn't get what they want. Optimizing this means that they can take a single 8 hour shoot, that'll produce maybe an hour and a half of good footage (just pulling numbers out of my ass) and make more than one video of the right length to get the most profit out of it.
- nooneelse 15y agoOk, thanks, I'm restored to cynical now... and the business advantage to be found here is that they can go even further than just optimizing length to match what people want, they can make them just a bit shorter than more people would like, so people will buy two instead of just one.
- HeyLaughingBoy 15y agoIt's probably an extra-cost service to the hotel guest. The hotel wants to know how much/how often the service is used so they can optimize it for their needs. No sense paying for more bandwidth than you need. In any case, they probably have no need for individual statistics: the aggregated watching habits of guests is enough to provide useful information.
- borism 15y agoWell, they almost ARE an investment bank. They've commoditized sex and are now trading it.
- pjscott 15y agoIn that sense, a company that makes any commodity, like toilet paper or aluminum cans, is "almost" an investment bank.