Editorial desk
L. Hoffmann
Editorial contributor — adult industry analysis
L. Hoffmann is an editorial desk at Step Secrets Editorial, not an individual writer. Entries filed under it cover Adult industry economics, Studio consolidation, Payment-processor risk.
Entries are compiled from the published sources cited at the foot of each page. Where a claim could not be sourced, it is not made.
Beats
- Adult industry economics
- Studio consolidation
- Payment-processor risk
- Tube-site distribution
Entries by L. Hoffmann (4)
- Creator platforms and the post-2016 reshape of adult-industry distribution
How OnlyFans, Fansly, and the broader creator-platform layer added — rather than replaced — a third distribution rail alongside studio-tier production and free-tube aggregation, and what the resulting three-layer topology looks like in mid-2026.
- The economics of independent adult studios: a Mylfed case study
A working overview of how a single mid-tier adult production house — Mylfed — fits into the post-tube, post-OnlyFans, post-payment-processor-pressure economy of the independent adult industry, and what its catalog structure reveals about studio-led production at scale in the mid-2020s.
- The post-2020 payment-processor reordering of adult media
How a sequence of Mastercard, Visa, and platform-policy decisions in 2020–2021 restructured the compliance, distribution, and labour landscape of the legitimate adult industry — and what the new equilibrium looks like five years later.
- Tube-site economics and the consolidation of adult video distribution
How the free-to-view tube-site model that emerged in 2006–2007 reshaped adult video distribution, what the consolidated ecosystem under MindGeek/Aylo and its peers actually looks like in mid-2026, and where the structural pressure points sit going forward.
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