SAN FRANCISCO — Despite conventional wisdom indicating porn is recession-proof, gay adult studios want consumers to know “we feel your pain.” Titan Media on Thursday became the second major gay player in one week to announce consumer price reductions.
Unlike Raging Stallion’s earlier cut in physical product prices, Titan’s economic stimulus package is available to users of the studio’s pay-per-view website, TitanXXX.com. According to Titan Vice President Keith Webb, the company has converted its tiered pricing model to an across-the-board flat rate. Instead of users’ virtual wallets reflecting the amount of money they can spend, all balances have been converted to minutes.
“All films are now the same flat rate, and you simply buy minutes to put into your account,” Webb said. “With those minutes, you can watch anything you want: new releases, Classic TitanMen, leather and fetish clips, uncut Euro guys. It’s all at one low price.”
Speaking of low ... The studio reduced its per-minute rates by one-third to one-half, from the previous range of 14-29 cents per minute to 8 cents per minute.
“We’ve almost tripled the amount of films you can watch for the same amount of money,” Webb said. “We think consumers will love the new easy-to-use pricing and the new lower prices.”
TitanXXX.com is the only place on the Web to find Titan’s titles in streaming video-on-demand format. In addition to standard DVD content, the site also offers directors’ special edits. Webb said the studio has upgraded its distributed servers for faster and more reliable streaming, so lag time and sputtering are not issues with most Internet connections.
“Just pure, high-quality, instant video-on-demand,” he said.
To check out Titan’s online theaters, visit TitanXXX.com.
