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FDA: Fair Fight?
In December, the Food and Drug Administration announced a crackdown on weight loss, bodybuilding and sexual enhancement supplements that contain potentially dangerous ingredients.
Epoch Signs On as Platinum Sponsor of XBIZ EU 2011
XBIZ is pleased to announce Epoch as Platinum Sponsor of the highly anticipated XBIZ EU 2011 international digital media conference set for Sept. 23-25.
A Look at Glyph PortaGig 62
Could you use a 3TB, production quality portable RAID that literally fits in the palm of your hand? For content producers, video editors and other creative types on the move — as well as anyone with limited space and demanding data storage needs, the answer is a resounding “Yes!”
Surfers Reject Stuff They Think They Don’t Need
Within the entertainment and media industries, online adult or otherwise, you will commonly hear the phrase, “content sells.” While this statement is undoubtedly true, having a marketable product is only the starting point — getting it to the customer is an uphill battle that not only involves identifying and directing those prospects to the point of purchase (sending traffic to your website), but of reassuring and guiding them through the sales process (such as moving surfers from a warning page, through a tour, on to the join page and then successfully into your members area).
Fast Content Is Good Content
It’s been said before and it bears repeating: Having the best website content in the world won’t matter if folks won’t wait to see it. With this in mind, webmasters should focus on ways in which they can boost the perceived speed at which their pages load.
Seeing Stars With Ratings
For webmasters running WordPress-powered websites, soliciting viewer reactions to their content can be as easy as adding a plugin that allows visitors to rate or vote on how much they liked — or disliked — your site’s offerings.
Taking a Look at Content Management Systems
Adult entertainment websites are known primarily for one thing: offering collections of content that may include many thousands of videos, countless still images and more.
Major Attraction
As long as there are members of the opposite sex looking for an effortless way of attracting one another, pheromone-infused product may continue as a mainstay for many manufacturers and distributors.
Video Monitor: Switch Hitters
Cutting costs while maximizing resources and results is a common theme within production circles these days — adult or otherwise. One method for getting by with less involves slashing crew and hardware expenses by relying on fewer shooters — using DSLRs for HD video acquisition and HD video camera “Photo Modes” for flexible and inexpensive “all in one” productions.
Using jQuery to Enhance Your Website Security
One of the most valuable aspects of the jQuery framework is its flexibility, which even extends into the realm of website security, by enabling and enhancing features such as web form validation, user authentication and more.
Next-generation Enhancements
There is no shortage of supplements to treat erectile dysfunctions and a slew of male and female sexual issues. The latest wave of enhancement products appeal to men and women of a new generation; users that are younger, more experimental and more health conscious.
Rants and Ratings
When it comes to profiting from your creative works, “artistry” and “commerce” can easily part ways; causing a situation where what is pleasing to the creator may find little traction amongst paying customers; resulting in another ohso-romantic “starving artist,” struggling to pay his or her bills, all the while hoping that someone will appreciate their enlightened “artistic vision” enough to pay the rent…
U.K. Trade Organization AITA Signs On as XBIZ EU Association Sponsor
XBIZ is pleased to announce U.K.’s Adult Industry Trade Association (AITA) as the official Association Sponsor of the highly anticipated XBIZ EU 2011 international digital media conference.
How Dimensional is 3D?
The technology of 3D may still be in its infancy, but past history indicates that studios and content providers had better start paying attention to this terrible new child. Right now the opinions about 3D range from passing fad to fanatical. Justin Lally, president of Funky Monkey Movies, weighs in among the latter group of opinions.
Content Vs. Traffic
Long-time veterans of the online adult entertainment industry can recall endless threads on industry message boards where people debated the merits of their own market segment compared to others.
Mobile Madness: Smartphone Market
Since mobile madness has infected every inch of the adult industry from small niche websites to giant film production studios, everyone wants to cash in on what will make users pluck down their hardearned dollars for sex on the small screen.
Hardest Core: Producing Niche Content Authentically
The success stories of the adult entertainment industry are not only the companies that produce standard vanilla erotica; there are also many adult companies that have done extremely well for themselves by focusing on certain niches or micro-niches and catering to a specific audience. Whether the niche has to do with BDSM, gay or lesbian sex or alt-porn, niche erotica can be quite lucrative. But niche marketing requires considerable expertise, and the companies that go for authenticity are the most likely to prosper with niche erotica.
World of Content: Expanding Access
Adult content has been around for a long time. Even in the 19th century — long before there were large adult entertainment companies that made millions of dollars — there was adult content in the form of nude photographs, sexually explicit illustrations and erotic novels. But technologically, much has changed over the years — and these days, adult content is more diverse and more plentiful than it has ever been. Profiting from it, however, requires a lot of business savvy, and in order to assess the state and the future of adult content, XBIZ contacted some well-known execs for the adult entertainment industry.
Director’s Chair: Prime-Time Player
In an industry full of characters, Ivan is one of the most colorful. The Russian-born artist is a legit, five-tool player — he can write, produce, shoot, direct and edit — making him a valuable asset in porn circles.
WIA Profile: Audrea Mata
Each month, industry news media organization XBIZ spotlights the career accomplishments and outstanding contributions of Women in Adult. WIA profiles offer an intimate look at the professional lives of the industry's most influential female executives.