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XBIZ Exec Awards to Honor Pleasure Products, Retail Professionals at XBIZ 360
XBIZ is pleased to announce the first-ever XBIZ Executive Awards honoring unmatched career success in various fields within the pleasure products and retail sectors.
Study: Why Do So Few People Use Wearable Tech?
A recent study showed that only six percent of people own wearable tech, although many said they found it appealing. Could the cost be deterring consumers?
Dev Depot: Relying on Ractive for Interactivity
Intended to help make the web interactive by default, Ractive.js provides developers with next-generation DOM manipulation capabilities by changing the relationship between HTML and JavaScript.
Audrey Hollander Makes Erotic Fiction Debut
Porn star Audrey Hollander has joined forces with adult industry veteran Kelli Roberts for their collaborative erotic fiction debut, "Jingle My Bells."
Speedy Solutions for Faster Page Loading
Nobody likes a slow loading website. This basic fact leads to customer dissatisfaction that can be expressed through negative social media (or no social media) comments that hinder new visitor acquisition and overall traffic flow.
Dev Depot: Cloud Typography
Cloud.typography from H&FJ is a webfont solution for design professionals that allows all of your communications to speak in the same clear voice.
Tumblr Policy Changes Affect the Platform’s Traffic Potential
For adult marketers using the popular Tumblr.com service to promote their offerings, the site’s recent acquisition by Yahoo! and subsequent policy shifts have proven to be as unsettling as Google’s constant algorithm updates — hampering traffic flow and causing uncertainty over the platform’s future viability for porn promoters.
A Look at Common Sources of Traffic Leaks
When looking at the number of people visiting your website, it’s important to realize that not all of them are making it through your website and taking the desired actions — simply because they are leaking out of your site’s seams.
Counting on Age Verification
If you run an adult website, you likely have heard by now that U.K. regulatory body ATVOD (Authority for Television On Demand) is pursuing websites without proper age verification systems in place (including non-U.K. based adult websites), leveling heavy fines and seeking to block payment to these sites by pushing for new banking laws.
XBIZ Poll: 70% Say Cameron's Porn Opt-in Plan Will Fail
British Prime Minister David Cameron's porn opt-in system is likely to fail, according to the majority of adult entertainment professionals who casted votes on XBIZ.net, the industry's leading social network.
LELO CEO Miroslav Slavic to Keynote XBIZ 360 Pleasure Products
XBIZ is pleased to announce LELO CEO Miroslav Slavic as the visionary keynote speaker for the highly anticipated XBIZ 360 Pleasure Products Conference slated for Jan. 22, as part of the XBIZ 360 seven-part event series that will examine and uncover the future of the multi-billion-dollar adult industry.
Sharpshooter: Director Mason Opens Up About New OpenLife Venture
The creative force spearheading the launch of the OpenLife Entertainment production department is as mysterious as she is notorious.
Beginning of Online Porn’s End?
There has been much discussion about the U.K.’s new opt-in program for porn that will require households to choose to receive adult content (with porn blocked by default), rather than let families that wish to block this material choose to do so. The addition of ISP level porn filtering of public Wi-Fi hotspots will also do as much damage to the traffic and revenue flow of adult websites targeting a British audience as will household opt-ins — providing a discriminatory one-two punch against pornographers.
Billing Trends in the E.U.
The importance of the European Union to the adult entertainment industry cannot be overstated. From Germany to the U.K. to the Netherlands, the E.U. is both a major consumer and major producer of adult content. But in order to profit online in the E.U., adult companies must understand billing in the E.U. — and in 2013, the E.U. continues to have a diverse billing/payment landscape.
E.U. Dating Trends
Professional matchmakers have been bringing couples together for centuries, but in the Internet era, matchmaking is much more high-tech than it was in the past — and one of the most profitable areas of the world when it comes to online dating is the European Union (E.U.).
Live Cams: Mastering the European Market
For many Americans working in the adult entertainment industry, myself included, there’s a tendency to establish a myopic focus on the American market for our products and services, and to consider other geographic markets, even the large and lucrative European market, as something of an afterthought.
Traffic Trends: Mobile + Emerging Markets = Profit
As Europe continues to gain greater interest from digital publishers, a few key trends are coming into focus and some of the most important players in this area of the industry have graciously taken the time to pass along some actionable information that can be put to use in your own E.U. expansion, based on statistical data that covers a massive number of new customers.
AdultFriendFinder CEO Anthony Previte to Keynote XBIZ 360
XBIZ is pleased to announce FriendFinder Networks’ CEO Anthony Previte as its special guest keynote speaker for the 2014 edition of XBIZ 360 Digital Media Conference.
Silver Lining for Europe’s Adult Mobile Market
For years, American adult companies have eyed the European adult mobile market with a certain degree of envy, flowing from the relative ease of billing for adult transactions through European carriers, including the ability to support SMS-based purchases — an ability that no expert or market analyst believes American carriers will offer any time soon in connection with adult mobile sites, services or apps.
Intimate Apparel: Seasons of Change
As is the case with just about any manner or style of clothing, trends and fads are salesdrivers in the intimate apparel market, some regular and predictable, others sudden, unanticipated and highly time-sensitive.