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An Industry Under Pressure – A European Perspective

The Association of Sites Advocating Child Protection (ASACP) is issuing a warning to adult website operators that current European initiatives are threatening to dramatically change the regulatory landscape, adding hurdles for businesses that serve consumers throughout the region and beyond.

Billing in a New Light

At the heart of e-commerce is the ability to process transactions and manage the sale, delivery and customer service process — processes that benefit greatly from automation and expertise — and which fall into two main implementation categories: using a direct merchant account or a third-party service.

A Look at the Evolution of the Mobile Adult Internet

As we approach a decade of (usable) mobile Internet access, it is worthwhile to explore the history of this dynamic adult entertainment market segment, as well as its current and future profit potential. Christian Kreul of Visit-X and VX|Cash (www.vxcash.net) has a long history on the mobile Internet, dating back to 2005, long before the explosion of Smartphones, apps and tablets. He explains that while phone calls and plain text messages were the killer apps back in the early days, today, eight years later, the mobile Internet has come out of its infancy and is here to stay.

A New Revolution in Augmented Reality?

I know that some of my mobile mates are already getting jaded with hearing me go on about augmented reality and its potential to create the same commercial impact for adult entertainment as the World Wide Web did back in the days. It’s well known in our saucy sector that adult consumers (and their above average ARPU) are becoming increasingly bored with what’s on offer. I’ve mentioned before how the industry is (worryingly) offering more and more extreme porn in an attempt to maintain audience interest to ensure those consumer dollars keep rolling in to an industry generating around $15 billion a year.

Q&A With Juicy Jay, CEO of JuicyAds

Meet Juicy Jay, one of the few CEOs who still works 12-hour days doing programming, handling support tickets, while still running his marketplace for publishers and ad buyers.

Dev Depot: Make Better Decisions With A/B Testing

When it comes to optimizing your adult website’s user experience, traffic and revenue streams, nothing can take the place of formalized testing: comparing one specific approach to another by splitting visitors between two variations of a particular element; such as images, design features or call to action, in order to determine which is the most profitable. It is not something that a webmaster can effectively do manually, however, due in part to issues such as fluctuations in traffic sources, which will prevent a “try this one day, try that another day” approach from obtaining reliable results.

Adult Site Faux Pas: A Look at Common Paysite Mistakes

Looking at paysites I’m surprised that a lot of them are still operational and that they’re selling at all. It has nothing to do with the economy or the tubes or piracy. Most sites could and should be selling more but they’re doing a lot of things wrong. In a lot of cases they’re doing the exact opposite of what they need to be doing to make sales.

Dev Depot: Google Fonts, A Step Up To Better Typography

One way that professional web designers can stand out from the crowd is with better, cleaner and more contemporary typography, using quality typefaces that are distinctive yet legible, to deliver the site or application’s content effectively and with style.

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