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The Smartphone Revolution
As a growing number of adult website operators and content marketers seek solutions for monetizing the fast-increasing number of their customers arriving via mobile devices, a wide range of intriguing data points centering on the popularity of smartphones shows their importance as the world’s new Internet access platform of choice.
Tube Sites: Offering Full-Length Scenes, But Does It Matter?
Tube sites receive (and perhaps rightfully so) much scorn from non-tube site owners because of their offering of full length scenes — a practice those other site owners blame for lagging subscription and DVD sales; but does offering full length clips really matter?
Dev Depot: Pingdom Tools, Feeding the Need for Speed
Savvy web developers know that you can’t just fly by the seat of your pants when it comes to benchmarking and optimizing a website’s performance — you need the right tools in order to do the job — such as Pingdom Tools, which enables users to test a website’s speed, DNS health and more, easily and for free.
XBIZ Publisher Writes Open Letter to Google
In response to Google’s recent decision to ban advertising of adult-oriented websites through its AdWords advertising platform, Alec Helmy, president and publisher of adult industry trade publication XBIZ, has written an open letter to Google urging the tech giant to reconsider its position.
Changes at Twitter Provide New Opportunities for Marketers
Changes at popular social networking site Twitter may provide new opportunities for adult marketers who embrace this technological platform, which unites fans, performers, producers and promoters with one another.
Hackers Set Sights on Bitcoin-Stealing Malware
As if the world of bitcoin and its copycats was not cloudy enough, criminal hackers are now targeting bitcoin and other cryptocurrency users via malware injections that can (and have) resulted in the loss of the user’s coins.
Behind the Scenes of the 2015 XBIZ Awards Ad Campaign Shoot
James Deen makes his living in front of the camera, but he maintains that “I’m not good at being the star.”
Dev Depot: Mmenu, Sliding Menus With a Single Line of Code
Sliding menus are all the rage these days and are an integral component of responsive website designs, where stuffing robust navigational options into a mobile friendly form factor is needed. What is also needed is a lightweight way to implement this menu type.
How Elements of Online Dating Can Be Used in Adult Websites
The world of online dating continues to grow, attracting new audiences — but this does not have to mean taking visitors away from traditional adult websites — especially if those sites can incorporate elements of the online dating experience into their offerings.
A Dating Landscape That’s Full of Tricks and Liability
For quite a while rumors have persisted that dating sites utilize underhanded ways of interacting with new members to give a misleading sense that they are joining a much more robust community than they have visited.
Mobile Traffic Continues Rapid Growth in Adult Dating Sector
Mobile technology plays an increasingly vital role in the adult entertainment industry, including online adult dating. And as the adult industry gets ready to enter the Summer of 2014, important mobile trends in the dating sector include more reliance on apps as a marketing tool, a variety of niche dating and fierce competition among the different mobile platforms.
White Labels Turn Gray
White labels are evolving as marketers continue to refine their use is leading to some interesting new developments in the dating niche.
Q&A With JT of the Really Useful Cash Network
If you’ve been in the online adult industry for any length of time, you probably already know about JT, “The YouPorn Guy.”
Diversity Drives Market Trends in Fetish Video
Fetish video is here to stay, with the market changing but remaining strong. While some longtime fetish producers complain about the difficulty of finding DVD distribution, online companies are thriving and branching out in new directions, while mainstream producers have found a new income source in crossover projects.
Dev Depot: BttrLazy Loading, “Lazy loading” jQuery plugin
According to French front end developer Julien Renaux, nowadays with the device (mobile, tablet, desktop etc.) and connectivity diversity (3G, 4G etc.) confronting coders, serving optimized information to specific environments is paramount, though not easy.
UKAP Party Announced, to Coincide With XBIZ EU
This year's UKAP (UK Adult Producers) Party will take place in London on Friday, Sept. 26, to coincide with XBIZ EU, the international digital media conference that draws leading U.K., European and American industry players for three days of education, networking and business opportunities.
Nikki Delano Helps Gold Club Celebrate 10-Year Anniversary
The Gold Club is celebrating its 10-year anniversary this week, from June 25 to June 28.
Dev Depot: Fullpage.js, Full Pages Are a Scroll Away
Today’s web designers have their work cut out for them in the battle to avoid having a cookie cutter property where a unique design that displays the way its designer intended — regardless of the platform the site is being viewed on — is the intended goal.
Serious Questions: Dating Sites and False Advertising
The popup ad promised something fairly amazing in any context: “thousands” of girls in my area, all presumably hot to trot, or at the very least, available to cyber-woo. From my perspective, there was only one small problem with the claim; it was quite obviously false, and enormously, egregiously so.
Jessy Ares: Command Performance
It’s rare for a performer to have an immediate impact, but when Jessy Ares started his career at Titan in late 2010, he instantly made his mark — garnering Gay Performer of the Year nominations for all three of his years in the business.
