The Internet's Most Downloaded Woman has gone wireless. Danni Ashe has adjusted "Danni's World" for a $4.95 per month pocket PC presentation, the New York Post reported this week.
The presentation involves licensing a select volume of Danni's Hard Drive content to a company called Right Angle Media, which will handle the wireless distribution in North and South America, following five months of planning and working out the structure of the deal. The content will be available on mobile phones and all hand-held Internet-accessible devices. For Ashe, the move is as natural as, well, sex.
"It took what the Internet offered, privacy and accessibility, and made it more portable," she told the Post. Whether it will make it more profitable, however, seems an open question still. The Post said sites like hers and other top adult sites might generate about five percent of all mobile entertainment revenue, but with so much porn available online for free getting users to buy it for pocket PCs might be a challenge.
"If the wireless Internet evolves in a similar fashion as the wire-line Internet, adult content will be a major driver at its introduction," Yankee Group wireless analyst Linda Barabee told the paper. "U.S. wireless carriers have to walk a fine line between participating in substantial revenue opportunities and being branded as a distributor of what may be deemed controversial content."
Ashe was traveling July 30 and could not be reached for comment by AVN.com. But Danni's Hard Drive business affairs spokesman Duane Dauphine said taking Danni wireless was in the plans for several months."People have been approaching us about doing this for some time, and they're continuing to approach us from different regions of the globe," he said. "It took this company about five months. It's all very new and I think they're feeling their way with it.
"It looks good, from what I've seen," Dauphine continued. "I've seen a mockup that you can access, I haven't actually seen it on a cell phone. It's just in stages for marketing at this point, and we'll see where it goes from here. It's a way of reaching different additional people, and Danni is always looking to embrace new technology.
Danni's Hard Drive, of course, grew from a small Website in 1995 into an $8.5 million operation with 45 staffers.
