Top Trends in Adult Entertainment Platforms: What Makes a Porn Site Stand Out in 2024
Like any other industry, however, adult entertainment is constantly changing and growing, both with the invention of new technologies and with the changing of people’s preferences. So, new porn genres and trends emerge every year, as do new ways of making and watching adult content. To better understand what we can expect from the future of adult content, let’s see what were the top trends in adult entertainment platforms in 2024 and what helped the best porn sites stand out.
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What Are The 7 Top Trends in Adult Entertainment in 2024?
There are seemingly as many adult entertainment trends out there as there are viewers. However, some things did prove to be more popular in 2024 than others. Below are the 7 main trends we’d single out as of right now.
1. Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) Content
Both Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality adult content has been getting exponentially more popular in recent years and that has certainly been the case in 2024 too. Toon content in general has always been a niche porn trend, but relatively popular for a niche trend. In 2024, however, both VR and AR porn became especially liked with more and more people interested in the flexibility and versatility offered by the technology.
2. Taboo Content
Taboo porn content has been on the rise for years, especially since the Covid-19 pandemic when the trend exploded into the mainstream. And taboo porn is so popular nowadays that it’s almost difficult to find adult content that doesn’t have taboo elements in it. For better or for worse, the internet is enamored with taboo porn and it’s difficult to find adult sites without it or to imagine a future where the adult entertainment industry isn’t relying on it as much.
That being said, if we are contemplating trends that can make an adult platform stand out, it’s not impossible that the opposite trend of taboo-free adult content can make a platform stand out in the near future. While the taboo trend is certainly incredibly popular, there are people who have started groaning against it. So, maybe, an adult platform that guarantees the lack of this one trend can attract some attention.
3. AI and Deepfake Content
Similar to VR and AR content, AI and deepfake porn has also become quite popular in 2024. Putting aside the arguable lack of ethicacy in creating deepfake porn of other people without their consent, it’s also undeniable that stopping the creating of AI and deepfake porn is all but impossible nowadays, given how everyone can make it on their own and share it online.
4. Niche Content
This isn’t so much one trend in and of itself, but a grouping of all the various thousands of smaller niche porn trends out there people look for. From BDSM and BBC content to lesbian, gay, and trans content, there are many adult genres out there that rarely make it among the most popular trends on their own, but that are expected to be a part of every platform.
Missing just one or two such niche genres is unlikely to lead to the failure of a particular platform, however, missing a rich library of various different categories can absolutely doom an adult platform into obscurity. That’s why successful sites like PornTotal should always have a diverse catalogue of various niche categories.
5. Amateur and User-Generated Content
Amateur content has been around for as long as the internet has been around and even before that. It has always been relatively popular too, but what has truly made it rise to the top of the charts in recent years is the ability for people to create amateur and user-generated porn of truly high visual quality.
Unlike the not-so-distant past when amateur porn was associated with bad visual and audio quality, today there are countless millions of high-quality videos generated not only by professional studios but also by amateurs out there. And, yes, Only Fans content technically falls in that category too, although some might argue that it’s a who other trend in and of itself at this point.
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6. Interactive Content
Another trend that has been around for a few years but shot up to the top in 2024 is interactive content. This doesn’t just include adult video games, but interactive videos made to take the user’s input and jump to different scenes, depending on what the user wants to watch.
Such interactive content is more expensive to make, as more footage needs to be shot for an interactive video to have as much content as possible. On the other hand, it’s not much different from an ordinary adult video, as most viewers simply skip through the different sections of each video to find what they like in it anyway.
7. Ethical Content
Some of the above trends out there can arguably be called “unethical,” but the opposite trend is also on the rise, as many people are actively looking for ethical adult content too.
This includes in it a couple of different factors: 1) content shot in an ethical manner, i.e. with no exploitation of the actors and with fair compensation, and 2) the content itself is ethical too and doesn’t depict any scenes or trends that may be seen as unethical.
While this trend isn’t yet as popular as some of the above, it’s definitely gaining popularity and any major adult platform nowadays is expected to have such a category.
The development and rise of many of these trends was relatively predictable, however, certain few of them definitely surprised us with how immensely popular they became. As of the end of 2024, all seven of the above niches are so popular that any adult site needs to have them in their catalog to be successful in the near future.