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Director’s Chair: From Manila With Love
Bobby Manila, one of the only Filipino-American porn directors in town, grew up in the Valley and is now working (a lot) in the business that made the region either famous or notorious, depending on your outlook. Bobby’s outlook, truth be told, is one of irrepressible glee – this guy loves what he does and brings that attitude to his work every day.
Company Profile: No Stopping Alto Global
Attention online payment processors: there’s a new kid on the adult block. Alto Global Processing recently launched what promises to be a unique and specialized approach to private merchant accounts through its revolutionary “Payment Gateway.”
Executive Seat: Lord (of Asses) Byron
It took balls. At only 18 years old, boy-faced Tom Byron had enough cajones to walk across the street from his day job at an adult video and novelty store straight into legendary agent Jim South’s office and asked to work in porn films.
Pink Visual Redefines Premium Porn
The market for online adult entertainment has dramatically changed during the past few years; reaching a point today where equally dramatic solutions are required in order to keep pace with consumer demand — and consumer conditioning, occurring as a result of being exposed to next generation mainstream media marketing techniques.
XBIZ Welcomes Coyote Days as Blog Columnist
XBIZ is pleased to announce the addition of Good Vibrations Purchasing Manager Coyote Days to its roster of distinguished blog columnists.
Lion King
Forty years ago this month Michael Moran opened the first Lion’s Den retail establishment inside a remodeled store room in Columbus, Ohio.
Lizzy Borden's 'Creature Feature' Earns XBIZ Editor's Choice
Tom Byron Pictures and Lizzy Borden have received XBIZ’s highest movie review honor, an Editor’s Choice accolade for their horror movie tribute, “Creature Feature."
Mobile Buzz: Android Abandons Adult
Google’s recent move to add content ratings to apps in its Android Market has underscored the care with which developers must choose and target their audiences; never assuming that “Android = adult.” Indeed, that wishful notion has helped propel the platform’s popularity within adult circles, following Apple’s decidedly anti-adult stance; but could new adult content restrictions spell the end of this market?
Traffic Report: ‘Semantic Web’ Could Be on the Horizon
One of 2011’s hot-button topics among webmasters will be the growing maturation of the semantic web — and the use of several new HTML5 elements as a potential means of boosting organic search engine rankings. This is an important traffic segment undergoing rapid development — but just what is “the semantic web?”
Kevin Moore: Student of the Game
Kevin Moore tells XBIZ that porn has been a labor of love since the late 1990s when he started running a few amateur sites while holding down his day job in the computer industry.
XBIZ Summit 2011 Site Launches, June Dates Announced
XBIZ is pleased to announce June 10-12 as the official dates set for the highly anticipated XBIZ Summit 2011, taking place at the luxurious Sofitel Chicago Water Tower Hotel.
Tech Tracker: Mindflex Reads Your Mind
Keyboards and mice will one day be as quaint as an abacus and quill pen, and it all started with a series of games designed to focus and harness the power of the user’s mind.
Design Dock: Effective Ad Integration
Add yet another troubling item to your long list of reasons why sales and revenue are way down, as an increasing percentage of Internet surfers, long frustrated by intrusive advertising and behavior tracking systems, are now resorting to the use of ad blockers — and thus not even seeing your ads, or earning you any per-impression advertising income.
The (New) Year Of The Cock
What does 2011 have in store for the leading gay studios and distributors? While a more stable economy has helped ease many minds, the still-uncertain trends in technology and content delivery have producers keeping a watchful eye on the year ahead. But that hasn’t stopped them from ramping up productions.
Web Post: An Engaging Proposition
Ad conversion rates in the tank and wondering what to do? Ask Atlas.
Spencer Reed Wins XBIZ Gay Performer of the Year Award
Spencer Reed has won the XBIZ Award for Gay Performer of the Year.
Out Of The Closet
Liberator’s line of positioning shapes and furniture has always included high-end products worthy of display.
HotMovies Wins XBIZ Award for Best VOD Site
HotMovies.com won the XBIZ award for Best Video on Demand Website.
XBIZ.com Adds European News Section
XBIZ is pleased to announce the addition of its European market news section on the industry’s top-visited business news portal, XBIZ.com, offering adult industry professionals involved in European markets the news that’s most relevant to them.
Network Solutions Posts .XXX TLD Page, Responds to XBIZ Queries
Domain registrar Network Solutions has gone live with a "Be ready for the launch of .XXX!" webpage, marketing the virtues of the sTLD that hasn't yet been green lighted by ICANN.