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Voice-Call Vending: Mobile Marketers Hear the Ring of Success
You’ve seen the ads in the backs of magazines and breathlessly played out on late-night television — call the listed phone number to talk with a hot live performer now.
Mobile Is Ubiquitous
During the earliest days of the mobile Internet, many adult website operators either simply ignored or redirected the few mobile visitors they received, because they were not equipped or able to handle this type of traffic. Sure, there were forward looking operators who decided to build WAP-enabled sites who may have offered a basic option for dealing with mobile visitors; but for the most part, these users represented a small-percentage of a website’s visitors, and were often seen as a nuisance that could be dealt with another day.
Mobile as a Moneymaker
Despite wishes for that magic bullet that will instantly rocket a webmaster’s mobile operation into instant success, the truth is that when it comes to the adult arena — content that’s old — is new again.
Turing Tests Stump Bots but Hurt Disabled Customers
While it is easy to study your website’s traffic stats and assume that all those figures represent human visitors, the reality is that a growing percentage of traffic is non-human in nature — robots (bots) and search engine spiders, among other electronic entities — benignly seeking to index your site, and on occasion, to maliciously harvest its content or otherwise exploit its services.
Lesbian Toys - Strap It On!
Spotting industry trends in toys made for lesbians is hard — literally — as in hard penis-like products.
Ad-Blocking Software Poses Challenges for Online Biz
Blame it on the abusive marketing practices of rogue website operators, or blame it on consumers used to switching channels, or hitting fast-forward on their DVRs to whiz past commercials; whatever the cause, surfers are increasingly turning to technology to keep many common ad types from being shown on the sites they visit — including yours.
Cloud-Based Video Encoding Key to Easy Content Deployment
Today’s online and mobile video consumers demand high-quality video playback regardless of the platform they choose to view your content on; providing challenges to marketers struggling to stay abreast of the latest codecs, containers, formats and more. In addition to third-party offline software tools and the robust integrated capabilities offered by most content management systems (CMS) for transcoding and prepping video, online services based in the Cloud are vying for a spot in the producer’s toolbox.
When Mobile Users Stumble Upon Standard Sites
The Internet was built one mouse click at a time, with a huge amount of material that is presented and intended to be navigated on mouse-enabled platforms; but as the world goes increasingly mobile, touch-screen and voice-controlled, the mouse is becoming an antiquated item of our computing past. Sure, they will be around for many years to come, but the writing is on the wall, forcing designers to take a second look at their practices.
Enjoying a Different View (Mode) With CSS Media Queries
Today’s adult entertainment consumer is seeking cutting-edge viewing options across a wide range of platforms; from big screen TVs to small-screen mobile devices and all types of computer displays, content publishers are striving to suit the needs of a “one size does not fit all” audience.
Using Video Trailers for Promotion
With the rise of “transparent member’s areas” on paysite tours, featuring a thumbnail image and often a short, reduced quality sample clip from each scene on the site, owners have faced the dilemma of balancing enough samples with freely giving away too much.
XBIZ TV: Tori Black Discusses Projects, Accolades, Future
XBIZ TV on Friday debuted an exclusive new video interview with adult film star Tori Black.
XBIZ EU a Smashing Success, Industry Execs Rave
This week's XBIZ EU international digital media conference, presented by Adult Webmaster Empire, was a resounding success, with many top industry execs praising organizers for its lineup of rich educational sessions and robust business networking opportunities.
Adult Customer Service: In-House or Outsourced?
Part of selling to the public is dealing with the public; a process that brings with it the ability to communicate directly with your customers, learning what they like and do not like about your product or service — a valuable benefit when building for the long term.
Lesbian Video: The Niche That Keeps on Giving
Girlfriends Films owner Dan O’Connell recalls that “when I started this business, for every hundred feet of shelf space in an adult store, VHS and DVDs, you might have five feet of lesbian content.”
The Creation, Preservation and Rehabilitation of Character
As the corporatization of adult continues, some forward-looking operators are seeking to craft, refine and redefine their image; moving beyond past, perhaps “shady” practices, in an effort to withstand the scrutiny of banks, boards and boardrooms.
XBIZ EU Day 2 Fueled by Full Slate of Networking, Seminars, Events
XBIZ EU, presented by Adult Webmaster Empire, marched forward on Tuesday with a full slate of events for attendees at London's Radisson Edwardian Bloomsbury Hotel.
XBIZ EU Day 1 Offers Lively Seminars, Workshops, Networking
XBIZ EU, presented by Adult Webmaster Empire, got off to a roaring start on Monday as the adult entertainment conference offered its first full day of lively seminars, workshops and speed networking.
XBIZ EU Kicks Off in London
XBIZ EU, presented by Adult Webmaster Empire, officially began Sunday evening in London with a kick-off happy hour and sponsor dinner.
Shifting Economy Changes Online Adult Marketplace
For online adult marketers — especially for those operating in, or targeting America — it is easy to forget the rest of the world: but the majority of the people on the Internet in 2012 are not American, or even English-speaking.
Pre-Nominations Open for 2013 XBIZ Awards
XBIZ is pleased to announce that pre-nominations begin today for the industry awards event of the year, the 2013 XBIZ Awards to be held on Jan. 11, 2013, in Los Angeles.