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Breaking Down OnlyFans’ Stunning Economics — MatthewBall.co

Due to UK disclosure requirements, it’s possible to examine the P&L of the privately owned/controlled OnlyFans. And the results are shocking.

Though a private company, Fenix International (“OnlyFans”) is a UK company and therefore required to publicly disclose certain information pertaining to its business and operations. And while these disclosures are limited and end at 30 November 2023, they reveal enough about the OnlyFans’ revenues, profits, scale, defensibility, reach, and impact to say that it is probably the most successful UK company founded since DeepMind in 2010, and the most significant media platform founded since TikTok (via Musical.ly in 2014), and dedicated creator economy platform… ever

https://www.matthewball.co/all/fansprofitandloss