We were crunching some numbers in our various databases and we came up with some interesting stats. OK, we were really wasting time avoiding doing real work, but the numbers do have some entertainment value 🙂
So if you look at just the sales of the full length videos, excluding individual scenes, clips and the more recent short story videos, here are the top 10 selling videos of all time:
1) IS03 – Bound to Bitch
2) IS68 – Let’s Tie up …
3) IS67 – A Pantyhose Bondage Bonanza
4) IS22 – Babysitter Chronicles
5) IS47 – Pantyhose Peril
6) IS80 – Bound in Leather
7) IS71 – Tape Bound Beauties
8 ) IS60 – Wrap Her Up! Mummification Tales
9) IS128 – 13 Hogtied Damsels
10) IS76 – Bound & Bundled – Mummification Tales 2
Of course, this list doesn’t take into account how long each video has been available, so it is biased toward older videos. And some videos (such as IS02 and IS13) have not always been available, or they might have also cracked the list. In terms of themes, it contains 2 pantyhose videos, 2 first person perspective videos and 2 mummification videos. Of course, Mia Chen (IS03) just dominates the list. In a way, it is a shame we met Mia so early on – i.e., back when we were shooting on analog equipment in one room of a small apartment and we were not particularly skilled with storyline development, pacing, camera work or even quality ropework. Oh, if we could work with Mia now what fun we could have!! 🙂 Of course, Mia would now now be in her 40’s and Imago Studios may not have succeeded if she had not appeared so early on!
If you look at just the more recent releases (from about IS130 on), the following lead the pack:
1) IS153 – Don’t Mess with a Dominatrix
2) IS144 – Damsels in Skirts, Heels, Blouses & Pantyhose
3) IS143 – Cooking the Books – Bound Burglar – Pounced
4) IS150 – Tightly Tied Vignettes
5) IS145 – Busty Damsel Tales #1 – Writer’s Block
Interestingly, IS153 is the most recent release of these, but it is actually way ahead of the others in numbers sold. The other 4 are relatively close, with several other videos (IS161, IS154, IS147, IS148, IS118, IS132 and a few others) just behind them. Other than possibly the dominatrix based videos, no particular theme repeats. The most interesting one to us is IS143 ranking 3rd. In general, our black models get very little positive feedback compared to our white models, which is one of the reasons we elect to work with so few black models.
The recent dominance of our dominatrix themed videos (OK – bad pun) is seen further if you look at the most frequently downloaded videos from our Bondage Warehouse site:
1) IS153 – Don’t Mess with a Dominatrix
2) IS161 – Dominatrix in Training?
3) IS094 – Turnabout is Fair Play – The Inheritance
4) IS068 – Let’s Tie up …
5) IS154 – Duct Tape Tales
What does all this tell us? Well, videos which feature pantyhose, tape, mummifications, 1st person perspective, Mia Chen and Dianne as a dominatrix do very well. So now we just have to come up with a storyline which features Dianne as a dominatrix dominating a pantyhose clad Mia Chen by mummifying her in duct tape – and somehow shoot it in the 1st person perspective! 😀