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XBIZ Summit Goes Moderator-Free, Introduces New Format
XBIZ plans to ditch the role of the seminar moderator for its upcoming XBIZ Summit digital media conference in Miami.
XBIZ Summit Official Show Schedule Now Available
XBIZ is pleased to announce the official show schedule for the upcoming XBIZ Summit in Miami slated for May 13-16.
Dev Depot: jQuery Audit, Auditing Conflicts
One of the most popular technologies employed by modern web developers is jQuery, which powers countless sites and mobile applications. As easy as the framework is to use, however, a variety of conflicts and other concerns await even the most careful of coders.
When It Comes to Sex Toys, Gay Consumers Are the Trendsetters
Well educated, tech savvy, socially connected and self aware … just a few of the attributes that Jahaziel Perez — owner of DickzToyz.com — uses to describe the gay male consumer.
Dev Depot: Media Query Builder, Queries Made Easy
One of the most powerful features of cascading style sheets (CSS) for modern website development is the use of media queries — an interrogatory used to determine the characteristics of a display device.
XBIZ Summit 'Traffic Rush Hour' to Host Top Traffic Providers
XBIZ is pleased to announce its preliminary list of leading traffic providers that have enlisted so far for the all-new Traffic Rush Hour session sponsored by BrokerBabe at XBIZ Summit.
XBIZ Adds Industry Attorney Corey Silverstein to Blog Lineup
XBIZ is pleased to announce the addition of adult industry attorney Corey Silverstein to its roster of distinguished blog columnists.
Special Delivery: Expanding Face of Film Distribution
“As adult movie producers, we are going through an evolution in the way content is first produced and then delivered,” said X-Play coowner Will Ryder, “and the audience always decides what works best for them. That evolution can be seen most clearly — and often uncomfortably — in the area of content distribution.
Happy Ride Vibrating Bike Seat Makes Exercise Fun, Dangerous
For cyclists looking for a boost — in their routine as well as their nether regions — there is now the Happy Ride, a vibrating bicycle seat cover.
Dev Depot: ImgFlip, Creating Mobile Video Previews in a Snap
As Flash fades and new devices come to market, it’s important to explore new ways of presenting video samples — regardless of the platform that they are viewed upon.
A Look at Biller-based Affiliate Systems
Today’s market leading Internet payment service providers (IPSP) offer integrated affiliate back end systems that not only eliminate the need for additional affiliate tools, but which may provide a competitive distinction for those choosing a primary processor — and with it, the software that will power their adult websites’ affiliate program.
Distributing the Pleasure
As the new year helps people recharge their goals, careers and outlooks, it’s a fitting time for pleasure product distributors to do the same — literally.
As the Adult Pendulum Swings
As I’ve watched the debate concerning David Cameron’s proposal for opt-out porn filters at the ISP level play out in the U.K., I can’t help but wonder if a similar idea might not eventually percolate up again from the bowels of U.S. Congress — perhaps even a bill that lacks some of constitutional defects that doomed various iterations of the Child Online Protection Act (COPA) and the enjoined portions of the Communications Decency Act (CDA), and that might better survive court scrutiny.
Dev Depot: Pinnect, Makes Social Pinboarding a Snap
There is no denying the continued popularity of Pinterest, the market defining social pinboard site that allows user uploads of photos and other media — a seemingly ideal application for adult websites, if it wasn’t for Pinterest’s pesky “no porn” policy.
Mobile Video Comes of Age
The rapidly increasing video quality of today’s mobile devices is inspiring new generations of digital filmmakers to adopt new techniques, which take advantage of the technical innovations occurring on the mobile video front — where many current generation smartphones support full HD video recording — and a few upstart phones are already shooting next-generation 4K video.
Snapshot of the Mobile Market
It has been about half a dozen years or so now since tech journal headlines proclaimed that mobile Internet access would surpass fixed Internet access “by 2014.” Now that this milestone year is upon us, XBIZ wanted to look at the latest available mobile penetration stats and to contemplate what it means to adult marketers. Here is what we found:
Optimizing Advertising for Increased Sales
Profiting from media buys is not as simple as posting an ad and then waiting for the sales to roll in as many new ad buyers quickly discover when they learn the hard way about the need for ad optimization.
Strategies for Re-marketing Canceled Members
Merchants often like to think that their products and services are so good that every customer is a guaranteed customer for life. Unfortunately, this rarely plays out in the real world, where increasingly finicky porn consumers are more reluctant to purchase and more quick to cancel website memberships.
Building Better Join Forms
For e-commerce website operators, web forms are a vital ingredient, whether used for paysite joins or product or service sales, or customer feedback and inquiries. Knowing if your site’s forms work is an easy enough process, but how do you know how well they are working, from a performance standpoint — not performance as in “how fast does it load” (although speed is a serious concern), but performance as in “does my form encourage completion?” and “what can I do to improve this performance?”
Content vs. Traffic: New Take on the Age-old Debate
Among adult website owners, it is the classic “chicken vs. egg” debate rehashed, where a discussion of which is more important — content or traffic — is perennially posed. While partisans play their roles in public responses (with content providers claiming that content is king, and traffic brokers pointing to their wares as the secret to success), it leaves many operators wondering which is truly more important to adult website operators today: content or traffic?