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XBIZ 360° Pleasure Products Conference Site Now Live, Set for Jan. 9
XBIZ is pleased to announce the fourth of six event websites connected with the unprecedented XBIZ 360° series of six grand-slam events is now live.
Pinterest Clones Seek to Popularize Porn
They say that you can easily have too much of a good thing. Many first-time tequila drinkers know this fact first-hand; as do adult affiliates facing a global glut of free porn.
Native Apps Provide More Control
Representing the first-generation of computing power added to mobile devices, native applications are fast and powerful, but require target specificity and intimate knowledge of a particular platform. Native applications can also provide easier access to popular distribution outlets, such as Apple’s App Store, forming a path for reaching customers.
XBIZ Retail Retreat to Bring XBIZ 360° Full Circle, Set for Jan. 9-12
XBIZ is pleased to announce the winter edition of XBIZ Retreat, slated as part of the unprecedented XBIZ 360° series of six grand-slam events that will take attendees on a journey into the heart of the industry to decode its future, ignite commerce and spotlight success at the most extravagant awards show in industry history, the 2013 XBIZ Awards, presented by Fleshlight.
Video: XBIZ Awards 2013 Host Tera Patrick Talks Biz, Projects
XBIZ TV on Friday debuted an exclusive new video interview with Tera Patrick.
XBIZ Launches Adult Entertainment Film Conference, Set For Jan. 10-11
XBIZ is pleased to announce the XBIZ 360° Adult Entertainment Conference, a first-of-its-kind event dedicated to performers, producers and studio heads slated for Jan. 10-11 at the luxurious Sofitel Hotel in Los Angeles.
Mobile Traffic Patterns
Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the last several years, by now you know that mobile traffic has emerged as a crucial component of the revenue generation plan for online adult businesses, and the growth in mobile device use shows no sign of slowing down. In light of those facts, XBIZ recently picked the brains of key executives at major mobile firms Reporo, Exoclick and Wister (Affil4U) to get their take on the current trends in mobile traffic and the ways in which adult entrepreneurs can go about taking advantage of those trends.
Mobile Market - CMS Trends
Content management systems (CMS) have come a long way since their roots as photo library maintenance tools, to encompass sophisticated presentational schemes uniquely tailored to the needs of adult websites. While CMS once focused on a handful of formats, the rise of mobile devices, each of which may have specific display capabilities (such as iOS’ lack of Flash support), requires multiple formats, bitrates and other custom tweaks.
XBIZ 360° Digital Conference Site Now Live, Details Announced
XBIZ is pleased to announce the second of six event websites, also known as XBIZ 360°, is now live.
Mobile Market: Effective Billing
With mobile browsing, viewing and purchasing of adult content continuing to rise, it is ever more important for adult businesses to optimize their mobile presence. While this optimization must, of course, include design and navigation considerations, effective content delivery and quality content, establishing an effective billing solution is probably the single most mission-critical step toward success in the mobile market; it does not matter how outstanding your mobile site is if your customers cannot conveniently and easily purchase what you are trying to sell.
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.