SAN FRANCISCO — OnlyFans CEO Amrapali “Ami” Gan told a tech industry conference audience in San Francisco this week that she does not know how much the company is making from adult content creators.
Gan and OnlyFans Chief Strategy and Operations Officer Keily Blair appeared at the noted Disrupt conference organized by influential tech news site TechCrunch, which reported the statements.
For the past few months, Gan and Blair have done a 180-degree turn in visibility to mainstream media, resulting in increasing appearances at events such as Disrupt.
According to TechCrunch, OnlyFans is “putting a lot of effort into upcycling its image from an adult content subscription platform to a Patreon-like home for all kinds of creators.”
According to the site, Gan also “confirmed that adult content will still have a home on the site in five years, and those creators can continue to make a living on it,” although she did not elaborate on that prediction.
TechCrunch noted that the platform has been busy with efforts “to position itself as more than just a platform for NSFW content and that NSFW is being ring-fenced in a more responsible way. Its top execs like to use the more general euphemism of “spicy” these days to refer to the work you find on there, and they like to talk about emerging categories on the platform like cooking and fitness.”
Gan stressed under her leadership the company is actively working with politicians worldwide “to ensure that adult content is only being viewed by those who are legally allowed to do so.”
But Gan and Blair refused to answer any questions about “just how much the company makes from adult content creators,” claiming ignorance of this key component of their proprietary data set.
“We’d have to look at every single transaction on the platform and assign it,” Gan told the savvy tech audience at Disrupt, “and we’re not collecting [that] data.”
Blair then immediately changed the subject to, “Like, the better question is, why is that important to people?”
According to data shared by TechCrunch, “creators on its platform now number 2.1 [million] while ‘fans’ number 188 million” and those creators “earned $4 billion in that year, and OnlyFans’ profit was $433 million,” although it bears repeating that the company’s top executive just claimed with a straight face that they do not know how much of that profit came from so-called “spicy” accounts.
Main Image: OnlyFans CEO Ami Gan and CSOO Keily Blair at the Disrupt conference (Photo: TechCrunch)
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