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Being on Center Stage
Does being a performer give some agents a leg up? After surveying some performers-turned-agents, there is no denying being in front of the camera gives an agent an advanced skill set on booking talent and managing their clients – they’ve been there, done that. Agents like Derek Hay and Lisa Ann are familiar with the everyday struggles talent go through, which they feel make it easier to relate to their charges. Here’s what several prominent performers and agents had to say.
Step Into The Arena
Being a talent agent in the adult industry is very similar to being a boxer. You need to constantly defend your title, flex your muscles and train (well, in this case work) hard. For many years there were only a handful of agencies monopolizing the industry, chiefly Jim South’s World Modeling. But as in any competitive and lucrative business, people see the ability to earn a living and more talent agencies have cropped up within the last few years. This is a profile of eight of the more prominent and growing concerns that manage some of the best talent in the business.
VOD: The Place to Be
In the current Internet age, studios have lots of options when it comes to licensing their content: work with online video on demand delivery sites like Gamelink or AEBN, use members' areas like World Wide Content and The Content Store and/or choose streaming video on a paysite that uses feeds from providers like Almighty Content.
The XBIZ Weekly Retail Round-Up
The weekly collection of articles reporting on local laws and battles that affect today's adult retailers.
Larry Flynt to Discuss Future of Adult at XBIZ ‘State of the Industry’ Conference
Larry Flynt will discuss the current state of the industry at the at XBIZ ‘State of the Industry’ Conference.
The XBIZ Weekly Tech Watch
This week's tech watch includes news that will mostly be a relief to file-sharers everywhere.
AlmightyContent Nominated for XBIZ Award
AlmightyContent has announced its third nomination in a row for the 2009 XBIZ Awards in the category of Live Video Chat of the Year.
Old School Meets New
For years the sign hanging outside World Modeling was the Porn Valley equivalent to Sin City’s Welcome to Las Vegas sign, a public salutation to the American underbelly. From the late 1970s to the early 1990s, virtually every big name in porn — as well as thousands of lesser stars and starlets whom few would remember — passed through the agency’s door.
Private Media Group Nominated for XBIZ Award
Barcelona-based studio Private Media Group has been nominated as Studio of the Year at the upcoming XBIZ Awards.
Giving Credit Where It's Due
The gloom is thick in this land today. If it keeps going like this, they’re going to have to make the front pages of newspapers longer to track the downward spiral of the Dow.
The Foreign Profit Potential
There is money in foreign markets, but how do you get it? Can a studio simply ship a few DVDs to Europe and wait for the money to roll in?
A Broader View
If you’re trying to make a living in online adult entertainment, or for that matter, in any facet of adult entertainment, you’ve probably noticed that times are tougher for a lot of folks — and the situation for some operators will likely get worse.
Bree Olson, Kayden Kross Named Co-Hosts of 2009 XBIZ Awards
XBIZ is proud to announce Adam & Eve contract stars Bree Olson and Kayden Kross as co-hosts of the 2009 XBIZ Awards, taking place Feb. 12 at Boulevard 3 in Hollywood.
A New Hope for Tolerance
The adult entertainment industry has great reason to celebrate this holiday season and the reason why can be summed up in three words: President Barack Obama.
Hybrid Web Design: One Size Fits All
For web designers trying to create virtual properties that are all things to all people, an area of increasing challenge is to serve the needs of users that access these properties by using all manners of devices; from traditional home and laptop computers to TV set-top boxes and other so-called “Internet appliances” — iPhones, PSPs and other mobile devices.
The Sheer Madness of Andre
An Internet Adult Film Database “personal bio” page lists about a dozen personal attributes such as birthday, ethnicity and hair color. On Andre Madness’ page, they all read: “No data.” And there’s no picture.
Lighting for Amateurs: LED's Lead the Way
There is a not-so-new technology gaining increasing acceptance in the field of video lighting that can improve both the model's comfort level and the videographer's ease of production: LED's.
Future of Sex Arrives
The future promised us flying cars, jet packs and videophones. We’re waiting for those futuristic items, but Charlotte, N.C.-based AEBN, the VOD giant, has created an intimate and oft-requested bit of future fetish: the Real Touch, the first mass-marketed teledildonic device. Real Touch does not actually offer coitus with a PC, but it comes enticingly close. Remote control of devices is nothing new to the wired community.
Kentucky Domain Seizure Case Heard in Appeals Court
The Kentucky Court of Appeals heard oral arguments last Friday on democratic Governor Steve Beshear's effort to seize scores of domain names.
Taylor Made for Porn
Since 1993, New Sensations — situated in a nondescript, modern two-story building in Porn Valley, Calif. — has set out to change the adult industry for the better. Along with its sister entity, Digital Sin, New Sensations has produced some of the hottest gonzo lines on the market, covering such in-demand niches as newbies (“Naughty College School Girls,” “Fresh Outta High School”), MILFs (“Cheating Housewives Tales”), squirting (“She Squirts”), girl/girl (“Lesbian Provocateur”), two-on-one (“Double Play”), POV (“School Girl POV”) and interactive (the “My Plaything” series, currently highlighted by the release of the three-DVD “My Plaything Ashlynn Brooke”), to name but a few genres.