Friday Digital Flames
The 'Social Media Takes Out Porn' edition
Two years into my digital career, back in 'ol 98, my then boss suggested that the entire company spend two hours a week surfing porn sites. Cool, but why? His reasoning was sound - porn sites at the time were the absolute kings of online customer retention strategies. Given they had content that most people were looking for at the time (well maybe now as well) but they also knew how to keep you on their site and not re-direct you away to other more salubrious sites. Well the likes of facebook and twitter have recently overtaken porn as the most visited online destinations and are now the kings of retention. Porn won't die, it will merely migrate.
Mark
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