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Exec Seat: Q&A With AdXpansion's Nigel Williams

Since its launch in late 2009, AdXpansion has built its brand by providing innovative features and powerful optimization tools — all guided by its visionary company vice president, Nigel Williams.

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Q&A With SegPay's Cathy Beardsley

It didn’t take long for SegPay CEO Cathy Beardsley to turn the startup high-risk biller into a profitable company. After all, Beardsley’s a veteran processing executive who has more than a dozen years of experience leading and managing payment processing companies.

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Q&A: Kink.com Founder Acworth Discusses Rebranding, Future Plans

Online BDSM giant Kink.com last week announced that it was rebranding the company, moving away from its signature extreme content offerings to focus on a broader audience and bolstering its live San Francisco community events.

Q&A: Revel Body CEO Robin Elenga Discusses Innovation With SOL

Last year Revel Body arrived on the pleasure products scene with “the world’s first sonic vibrator,” and is now following up that release with an upgraded version of its flagship product, the Revel Body SOL.

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Director's Chair: Q&A With Nica Noelle

In the end, she was homesick. After a string of hits with Rock Candy Films at AEBN — including two that were nominated for Gay Movie of the Year at the XBIZ Awards — award-winning director Nica Noelle decided to return to Mile High Media to launch Icon Male, a new gay studio that continues her unique blend of romance and storytelling that explores taboo subjects.

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Exec Seat: Q&A With Epoch's Frank Gannon

Meet the gregarious Frank Gannon, senior account manager at Epoch, one of the leading and most dynamic processors that provides its service to the adult entertainment business. Gannon is a veteran in the business, who can easily walk you through the steps that lead to prosperity.

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Q&A With Webmaster Central's Founder Andy Alvarez

Andy Alvarez, Webmaster Central founder and chief executive, got his start during the Golden Years of online porn, when membership sites were burgeoning beyond belief and content was relatively limited — at least it wasn't as diverse as it is today.

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Q&A: PleasureText Founder Talks Monetizing the Cam Marketplace

With the camming segment of adult seemingly growing faster every day, staying ahead of the curve to deliver what fans want — and provide more revenue for both producers and talent — requires lightning fast creative thinking.

Q&A: Rowntree on ‘Ethical’ Porn Search Engine Boodigo.com

XBIZ on Wednesday chatted with Colin Rowntree, the longtime operator and founder of BDSM site Wasteland.com, to find out more about how Boodigo got its start and his inspirations to rope in porn fans searching on the web.

Q&A: Elle Chase Opens L.A. ‘Academy of Sex Education’

The third branch of the Academy of Sex Education has arrived in Los Angeles, with sex educator and body acceptance advocate Elle Chase at the helm.

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Exec Seat: Q&A With ICM Registry's Stephen Winyard

These are exciting times for ICM Registry Vice President Stephen Winyard. ICM Registry, of course, operates .xxx and now has sights on marketing .adult, .porn and .sex to adult businesses.

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Q&A: Sienna Sinclaire Brings Tao of Naughty to L.A. Nightlife

Expert and avid practitioner of 'naughty,' Sinclaire can turn any mundane activity into something lurid with her favorite qualifier. Naughty travel is much more exciting, for example, than blasé non-naughty travel — and the same logic follows suit for books, circuses, roller skating, drive-ins and dinner — all of which Sinclaire has successfully naughtified.

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Q&A With Andrew Conru of FriendFinder Networks

FriendFinder Networks founder Andrew Conru is firmly planted in the driver's seat leading the social entertainment giant and Penthouse brands.

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Q&A: pjur Group CEO Alexander Giebel Shares Global Plans

Despite a very healthy global pleasure products industry and a consumer heavy market constantly clamoring for new products, not many companies can legitimately boast a distribution network that encompasses nearly 50 countries. But the Luxembourg-based pjur Group can.

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Exec Seat: Q&A With Doug Wicks, CEO of Payze

Meet Doug Wicks, PhD, a familiar face among those who’ve worn their hats in the online adult industry for some time.

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Q&A: How Amber Lynn's Radio Show Bridges Porn With Mainstream

Adult legend Amber Lynn admits it’s nothing new — Howard Stern featured porn stars and adult themes on the radio years ago in an effort to shock the airwaves.

Q&A: Porsche Lynn Reveals Life Behind 'Million Dollar Legs' in New Memoir

If you thought Betty Grable was the only girl with “million dollar legs,” you were mistaken. In adult, that girl — now woman — is Golden Age porn star Porsche Lynn, who pinned the epithet to her freshly published memoir, “The Girl with the Million Dollar Legs: My Life in Burlesque, Porn and Kink.”

Q&A: Dr. Ava Cadell Discusses Sexpert.com Launch

Sexpert, author and love guru Dr. Ava Cadell is gearing up to launch Sexpert.com, a media platform featuring “erotically empowering” content.

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Q&A With EroAdvertising's Jan Huibers

Jan Huibers, the CEO and founder of global adult advertising network EroAdvertising, knows how to reach his clients — with determined and constant innovation and development of new features, all in order to accommodate changing, fickle and hyper-competitive markets.

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Q&A: Angie Rowntree on the 'Women in Porn' Debate Aftermath

One of the most highly anticipated online forums on the issue of women in the porn industry — Sssh.com’s “Women in Porn: Shattering the Myths," broadcast on Mindbrowse.com on July 22, came to a close with more than 600 people viewing the event.