A provider friend of mine was trying to decide which cities she should tour and asked my opinion. I put my marketing hat on and thought about it and realized that those decision factors should be based on market size and competition. So I put together this quick analysis and realized that others might be interested in the data. This is obviously just for fun but I thought I'd share. If the response is good I might do this periodically.
The formatting won't work with the default TER font but it is designed to work in a monospaced font. Simply cut and paste the info into Notepad and you will see the info as it was intended.
Data as of 2/1/06
Rank City Ads #cat #Vis Vis_% US_%
--- ------------------------ --- ---- ---- ------ ------
1 New York 571 27 141 24.7% 13.13%
2 Miami 329 14 72 21.9% 7.57%
3 Los Angeles 301 15 39 13.0% 6.92%
4 * San Francisco/Sacremento 278 19 57 20.5% 6.39%
5 DC 277 13 93 33.6% 6.37%
6 Las Vegas 247 13 41 16.6% 5.68%
7 Chicago 226 11 n/a 5.20%
8 Atlanta 210 11 27 12.9% 4.83%
9 Dallas 204 9 19 9.3% 4.69%
10 Boston 183 8 52 28.4% 4.21%
11 Tampa/Orlando 180 9 52 28.9% 4.14%
12 Houston 167 5 n/a 3.84%
13 Philadelphia 136 6 44 32.4% 3.13%
14 Michigan 135 5 40 29.6% 3.10%
15 Arizona 132 7 27 20.5% 3.04%
16 Minnesota 100 4 n/a 2.30%
17 Ohio 98 3 40 40.8% 2.25%
18 Carolinas 92 7 37 40.2% 2.12%
19 San Diego 89 0 n/a 2.05%
20 Seattle 79 4 n/a 1.82%
21 Austin/San Antonio 65 0 n/a 1.49%
22 Colorado 58 2 n/a 1.33%
23 Portland 48 0 n/a 1.10%
24 Wisconsin 35 0 n/a 0.80%
25 Reno/Tahoe 34 0 n/a 0.78%
26 Kansas City 31 0 n/a 0.71%
27 New Orleans 23 0 n/a 0.53%
28 St. Louis 20 0 n/a 0.46%
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Total 4348
* San Francisco and Sacremento does not support a universal
lookup. One must specift outcall or incall. Higher number
was chosen for all.
Legend
Ads - Number of ads on that Eros Page As of 2/1/06
#Cat - Number of categories for that City.
#Vis - Number of Ads under visiting category.
Vis_% - Percentage of ads that are visiting.
(shows migratory info)
Vis_% - Percentage of ads that are visiting.
US_% - Market share of providers for that city.
-- Modified on 2/4/2006 10:55:51 AM
since you have so much time in hand, can you also do a rate analysis? Though not providing perfect matches, I found that by stipulating 200, 250, 300 or 350 in the EROS search, all ads within the same rate category will pop up and you can count from there..
Nice compilation job, and some interesting data. However, all is not as clear-cut as it might seem on the surface.
Due to the Eros ad pricing structure, many traveling providers maintain only a single visiting ad, and have their visiting ads posted even when in their home base city. This skews the visitor numbers in the above chart, as it does not accurately reflect the percentage of ~providers~ that are visiting a specific city.
In addition, some visiting providers place 'local' ads rather than 'visiting' ads, sometimes even going so far as to temporarily obtain a local telephone number. These will also skew the visiting numbers in the chart, although in the other direction.
However, I suspect that all of the visiting numbers in your chart are higher than actuals, but may vary depending upon location.
Compete with Eros. over 4,000 ads, and what do they get per ad on average? Seems to me this is huge money...
Here's another project for you. Do a study of which major city has the highest ratings for escorts, i.e. combining looks and performance, total the numbers and divide by number or escorts. I'd bet that Chicago would win.
Call it a by-product of my occupation, but this data is something I whipped up in less than 20 minutes. But I thank you for the compliment.
Upon your suggestion I sent TER a message recommending this. I also offered to do the analysis. We'll see if there is interest.
In all sincerety, it's stuff like this that makes this country great.
To quote the inestimable Newman: "I want to know."
It would be of interest to have an index of providers for the population base. One could divide the metropolitan population base by the number of providers. Now eros will have varying penetration and determining the metropolitan population may be difficult. But it will give something of an index. Which city will then have the fewest citizens per provider?
-- Modified on 2/4/2006 2:20:57 PM
EVERYONE who posted on this thread just needs to get laid more...including me.
They should be translated into Latin and used as TER's motto. They could be a banner across the logo.
Any graphic artists out there want to take a stab at it?
My only comment is that several of my out-town clients have mention that San Jose is a highly underserved city. No backup data, just word of mouth. Any comments?
kisses
Suzanne in San Diego
...It's larger than Detroit, Seattle or Boston, and roughly twice the size of Cleveland or Kansas City. Most people are somewhat surprised that San Jose is as big as it is, and I wouldn't be at all surprised if it were underserved.