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Revisiting Banner Swaps, Traffic Exchanges
The Internet as we know it today was built on the interlinking of websites, a process that began as a manual exchange between webmasters, often via e-mail. Then, as now, swapping links or banners doesn’t mean the other guy will leave his up, introducing high levels of fraud into the system, along with an unnecessary maintenance burden.
Regional Traffic Controls Allow Localized Revenue Optimization
We live in an increasingly shrinking world, where once insurmountable distances are mere nanoseconds away. This has opened up vast opportunities through globalization, but it has also spread the risk and reward far and wide, with some unintended consequences.
Finding Traffic Leakage
One problem with many websites, especially those that have been around for a while, where various content management systems, server technologies and file extensions have conspired to wreak havoc on the site’s file structure; is that a lot of links may be broken — leading to “404” errors from missing pages and files; a diminished user experience; and lost revenues — and the bigger and older the site, the more likely it is to be affected.
FSC Teams With XBIZ for First-Ever FSC Summit Conference and Awards
The Free Speech Coalition and XBIZ on Wednesday announced plans to join forces for the first-ever FSC Summit Conference and Awards Show on Friday, Nov. 9, at the Sofitel Hotel in Los Angeles.
GameLink to Host XBIZ.net Gathering in San Francisco
It's the second straight year that GameLink has hosted the event, and this time around the event will be held at Mr. Smith’s in San Francisco's Civic Center district on Friday, Aug. 17, beginning at 6 p.m.
The Future of Currency
When it comes to payment processing today, regulators and policy issues play as big a role in defining the process as do technological innovations; which in the latter case are reaping infrastructural dividends that could soon lead to the de-emphasis of cash and even credit cards as primary preferred payment vehicles in the physical world — and it should happen in only a few short years, according to a recent report from Pew Internet.
XBIZ EU Diamond Sponsor AWE to Present Seminar for Models, Webmasters and Media Buyers
XBIZ EU Diamond Sponsor Adult Webmaster Empire will host a LiveJasmin-focused seminar on Sept. 17, from 4-5 p.m.
Designing for High-Pixel Displays
Next-generation graphics displays, such as Apple’s breathtaking Retina on the iPad 3, are heralding a new era in mobile photorealistic imaging; boosting available color depth, pixels per inch, resolution and screen size — all of which can be easily taken advantage of by designers seeking a creative and quality edge.
JSON vs. XML: An Adult Perspective
Webmaster Central’s recent addition of JSON support to its leased content services has brought the use of this technology to the forefront of adult, but what are the benefits?
Product Packaging With A Purpose
Essential to the marketing of adult goods, product packaging is prudently developed by manufacturers to target various demographics with a range of themes, concepts and personalities that will make an impact on retailers’ shelves.
Poll: Porn Revenues Exceed $5 Billion According to Industry Survey
In spite of an economic recession, an oversupply of free porn online and rampant piracy, the business of porn continues to impact the global economy on a multi-billion-dollar level, according to the results of a new industry poll conducted by media organization XBIZ.
Male-Branded Toys: No More Penis Envy
Male-branded pleasure products, both straight and gay, once considered a “novelty” in the novelty business are now selling as fast as their female counterparts.
Pros, Cons of Advanced Imaging Technology
It’s a battle waged by every bride: spend your hardearned money on a professional photographer, or let your shutterbug uncle handle the job; after all, he has a nice camera, is keen to do it, and will do it for free. Unfortunately, after the wedding when it’s too late, many new brides are dismayed over their lack of decent images — but uncle did his best.
Protecting Code
It never fails: you come up with great content, great design, and a slick and functional website that is the envy of all who survey it — and immediately, pirates from Tijuana to Timbuktu steal every bit of it they can — and some of them will use your own hard work to become your competitors.
Breaking The Mold
Like comic book superheroes, adult stars’ likenesses are used to market nearly every kind of ancillary pleasure product a brand can conceive. From legendary stars to new starlets, porn performer branding is in demand like never before.
Edge Of Gay: No Signs of Slowing
Barack Obama recently made history when he became the first U.S. president to openly voice his support for gay marriage, but before gay relationships progress to the marital or civil union stage, they will start at the dating stage — and gay dating websites continue to be a profitable part of the online dating world. In 2012, numerous Internet dating companies are targeting gay consumers; even companies that have had mostly heterosexual-oriented dating sites recognize the profitability of gay consumers. And while the gay side of online dating can yield considerable profits, it is also highly competitive.
Edge Of Gay: The Content Kings
He isn’t an old-timer, but it’s safe to say that Michael Stabile has been around the block a few times. The industry guru first came to prominence in 2004, co-writing the serial Wet Palms for Jet Set and Naked Sword — a series that forever changed the gay porn content landscape and proved to be an influential experiment that would have a lasting effect. Recently hired to manage marketing for the rising Kink Men brand of sites, he is now helping to shape the gay space into even more extreme and exciting directions. In between those gigs, he has seen and done it all. To put it not so mildly, Stabile knows his shit. So how are things looking?
Edge Of Gay: Live Nude Dudes!
There are many ways to describe the gay porn consumer — the need for immediate gratification one of many aspects defining their purchasing habits. And with the rise of the “reality” craze — an outlet that allows consumers to not only feel like they are part of something more intimate, but even strut their own stuff on tube sites — the live cam market has grown from an afterthought to a necessity, much like the gay consumer has to many companies that previously treated them like the red-headed stepchild of the straights.
Edge Of Gay: Of Machines and Men
Remember the good old days when the only way to get your gay porn was through the mail, the kind that a postman had to physically deliver? Neither do most of the gay porn consumers who have drastically altered the industry’s business model over the last decade, forcing companies both big and small to adapt or die as technology has opened a new world of options to get online — and get off faster and more efficiently than ever before.
Bridging the Real and Virtual Worlds
Take one look at nearly any venue’s event calendar and you’ll quickly realize that like-minded folks like to get together; and the adult entertainment industry and its fans and operatives, are no exception to this — as evidenced by countless business gatherings, porn star meet-and-greets, karaoke sessions and more — providing benefits for attendees and exhibitors alike.