DreamNex to launch erotic webcam on mobiles

By Michel Rose and Florent Le Quintrec

PARIS (Reuters) - France's adult entertainment company DreamNex said on Friday that it would launch an erotic webcam service this year, and expects 2009 sales and net income to remain at the same levels in as the previous year.

The group said that the economic crisis had impacted its sex toy sales but that its dating services were holding up well.

DreamNex launched its SexyAvenue.com website in 2000 in France and now has a market capitalisation of 97 million euros ($135 million).

DreamNex, whose products include solar-rechargeable sex toys, later this year will launch an erotic webcam service on such smartphones as the iPhone as the third-generation mobile phones have made it easier to stream videos from the Internet.

"We are preparing a webcam service that is a real technological challenge," Chairman and Chief Executive Patrice Macar told Reuters in an interview. "I feel the moment is now. It's this year."

"Mobile phones are more suitable for the adult content market. There is more intimacy than with the family's PC in the middle of the living room. I think that in the long term, a big share of the market will be done there," Macar said.

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