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Selling Free: Mechanics of the Business Model

Selling Free: Mechanics of the Business Model
There’s a lot of discussion in adult webmastering circles these days about the future of premium porn and the move to free, ad-supported websites as the business model of choice for many operators. Piracy is frequently cited as the culprit driving porn’s market shift and indeed, porn&rsq... More »

Power to the Pill

Power to the Pill
Blame it on mainstream’s newfound love affair with all things adult, or the simple fact that people are living longer and want to extend their sex lives well into the golden years. Whatever the reason, sexual enhancement products are fast becoming the next wave of pleasure products right behin... More »

Tube Sites: Going Full Circle

Tube Sites: Going Full Circle
Tube sites have a lot of paysite owners unraveling at the seams. Others are eager to jump on the bandwagon as tubes start giving back some of the traffic they control. The controversy surrounding tubes and what to do about them has paralyzed a number of adult entertainment businesses. Recently one ... More »

Topical Sexual Enhancers: Pleasure Products' Hot Topic

Topical Sexual Enhancers: Pleasure Products' Hot Topic
Although topical enhancement is the new “hot topic” in the pleasure products world, the sex jazzers have been a mainstay in the industry for nearly three decades. So what’s all the noise about, and where is the market headed? Like all pleasure products, new, different and better ... More »

Doing More With Less

Doing More With Less
With relatively few exceptions, most adult entertainment companies that have a significant number of years under their belt are generating less revenue these days than they did in years past. As a result, many have scaled back their operations, some have simply disappeared, and others have divested ... More »

Peak Performance - Sexual Enhancement Marketshare

Peak Performance - Sexual Enhancement Marketshare
Sexual enhancement supplements have become one of the strongest sectors of the pleasure products market. Pills, usually made from a blend of herbal ingredients, are proliferating. There are pills for bigger erections (Reload, SexVoltz), pills that boost stamina and endurance (AmErect, XploZion, Phuk... More »

DMCA, Safe Harbor - Tube Sites Take Note

DMCA, Safe Harbor - Tube Sites Take Note
On March 14, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals handed down an important ruling for companies that operate websites that allow users to upload content for display, as well as for content producers whose material is uploaded to such sites without their permission. The case, Universal Music Group ... More »

Maximizing Profits From Paid Ads

Maximizing Profits From Paid Ads
One thing that all online marketers, regardless of market sector, have in common is an ongoing need for ways to attract and profit from visitors to their offers. For some website operators, it is simply a matter of buying and reselling traffic, in hopes of earning a profit — an unfortunately e... More »

Internet-Connected TV (Almost) Comes of Age

Internet-Connected TV (Almost) Comes of Age
A walk around the recent Consumer Electronics Show (CES) or a perusal of the tech news since reveals an increasing number of TVs are Internet ready; and that although the services targeting these devices may be expanding rapidly, viewers are using these TVs the way they always have; frustrating the ... More »

Ask The Attorney: Future of Obscenity Laws

Ask The Attorney: Future of Obscenity Laws
Will obscenity laws and enforcement exist 20 years from now? J.D. OBENBERGER 1. That every action causes an equal and opposite reaction is not just a law of physics; I think it’s true in society as well. Moral conservatives can be expected to vent their frustration and rage at an advancing l... More »

BUSINESS ANALYSIS

Singaporean Snapshot

With more than 80 percent of its five plus million residents online, Singapore is a sophisticated and vibrant Asian city-state on the cutting edge of technology; but limited in its tolerance of “objectionable”... More »

Pleasure Products 2013: Delivering the Goods

What does 2013 hold for distributors of pleasure products? Will new market trends develop or will business continue on the previous year’s trajectory? To get an overview of market outlooks we contacted... More »

Kinky Couples: Couples-friendly Retailing

Retailers have a major opportunity to engage customers in a meaningful and long-lasting way that will keep them coming back even after the spell of Christian Grey’s steely eyes wears off. XBIZ spoke... More »
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