The 18th annual Festival Internacional de Cine Erótico de Barcelona (FICEB) has been postponed for 2010. Event organizers cite the economy as the reason for this years cancelation.
Netpond today posted on internet messageboards about the predicament their sponsor program is currently in.
“We have a few legal issues as the partners who supplied us the content for all of our sites have fucked us big time. We sued them for xx million but they are squealing like stuck pigs protesting about the lawsuit [...]
Industry vet Howard Levine has returned to Pulse Distribution and will once again sell Vivid Entertainment product. Levine, who served as Vivids national sales manager for 18 years, left in 2007 to work full time at Club Jenna.
The longest-running informal adult industry party continues every Tuesday....
A federal court has ruled in favor of the Recording Industry Association of America in a copyright infringement lawsuit against Usenet.com, which could impact future Internet piracy cases.
The site has a new design and new features, including a blog, a stories archive and a free-site directory.
The world-famous Vivid girls are all fired up and ready to host an Independence Day celebration this Saturday at popular hot spot Studio 54, located inside the MGM Grand Las Vegas.
Black and Borden of Extreme Associates pled guilty in court and have been blessed with a sentence of one year and one day in prison. They could be out on parole as soon as 10 months. Neither of these two or their corporation will have to pay any fines.
Amazing since their fellow obscenity trial peers ended like this:
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Variety.com focuses on Hustler Video in an article detailing the boom of sitcom parodies in adult entertainment. Hustler operations manager Jeff Thill is interviewed in the piece by columnist Brian Lowry.
Kaspersky Lab has won a key legal victory against adware firm Zango that sets a precedent for future nuisance lawsuits from malware and bot operations aimed at security software developers.
Ukrainian President Yushchenko has signed a new porn law that has already brought waves of protests throughout the country with claims it is vague and fails to define what would be classified as pornography.
To help with consolidating and streamlining the editorial content, the company is bringing in a new managing editor: Sharan Street, formerly with 'L.A. Weekly.'
Have Something Good To Say (PART 3)
We've been talking about having something good to say.
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Each will likely serve only 10 months, but their lawyer says, "It's still hard for me to take that somebody's going to jail for expression."
The Chi Chi LaRue's brick-and-mortar retail outlet in West Hollywood has been nominated for a 2009 STOREROTICA Award in the category of Independent Store of the Year.
Inquire about success of anyone whose adult entertainment business is thriving or at least maintaining an even keel in the currently distressing economic climate, and its likely youll hear one key phrase before almost anything else: Retain your customers.
The amateur production company has announced that it will celebrate the 4th of July with a major update to its flagship website.
The gay adult DVD market slips into the third dimension with the release of "3D Porn Stars Vol. 1" via pro/am website DominicFord.com.
Adult novelty manufacturer Doc Johnson has released the Wave Rider, the newest vibrating cockring in the company’s collection of couples-oriented toys.
AVN Media Network is proud to announce the nominees for the 2009 'O' Awards, which will be presented July 14, during the AVN Novelty Expo.
The longest-running informal adult industry party continues every Tuesday....
New Sensations has released “Seinfeld A XXX Parody.”
PleasureGo.com is establishing itself as an X-rated classifieds site.
GetRightCash has announced the redesign of mature paysites BoysFistMoms.com and OfficeMomsOrgies.com.
Onetime Hollywood madam of the '90s, Heidi Fleiss is marrying someone still involved in her former business the owner of famous Nevada Brothel the Moonlite Bunny Ranch, Dennis Hof.
Silvercash has launched TeenModels.com and affiliate program TeenModelCash.com. The flagship site includes "all the European babes ... with hardcore American attitude.”
The site offers blog coverage, behind-the-scenes video clips and images and cast galleries.
Beginning in July, MobiVixen.com will offer a templating engine to its affiliates, which will provide mobile handset users with video content regardless of the carrier or phone type.
Adult fetish manufacturer/retailer Stockroom.com has partnered with Adam Splinis, a marketing executive known for forming Global Direct and developing the Mallcom.com affiliate program.
Jesse Jane & Riley Steele Host Crobar Club's Porn on the 4th Party!
Australian Communications Minister Stephen Conroy is at it again. Following his campaign for a "Great Aussie Firewall" and blacklist of sites, the senator now wants to prevent access to adult video game websites.
Dave Levine, aka Sex Toy Dave, makes his return to television on Aug. 2 with the debut of VH1's new reality show 'Megan Wants a Millionaire.'
Thick Cock Balls Deep is nonstop gay gonzo action.
China has delayed mandatory installation of filtering software on new computers, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology said Tuesday.
The Summer Fling Party at the Playboy Mansion, produced by ellemés internationale, has been announced for Saturday, July 18.
GetRightCash introduces new designs for BoysFistMoms.com and OfficeMomsOrgies.com mature paysites. ...
[B]Have Something Good To Say (Part 2)[/B]
Yesterday we talked about having something good to say. Here is more on that subject.
Before you can worry about how to say it well or say it often, you must first understand step #1 to successful communications: "Have something good to say."
Porn in the 21st century seems to be changing almost as fast as you turn your dial for another TV program.
Former aide claims one-time presidential candidate and former Sen. John Edwards recorded a sex tape with his ex-mistress, Rielle Hunter.
The complete version of Mozilla's Firefox 3.5 is due Tuesday. The latest version of the Web browser was originally planned for release some six months ago. Various beta versions have been available for trial use.
Video-diary format blurs the line between fantasy and reality.
A state-run Chinese news station faked a man-on-the-street interview that claimed watching porn online will make one absent-minded.
BMS Enterprises wireless and waterproof 3-Speed Power Bullet line continues to grow with the new and exciting G-spot vibes: Wisteria, Dahlia and Impatience.
The legally embattled operators of the Pirate Bay have unveiled a new video streaming site The Video Bay that's sure to cause copyright troubles once it's fully launched.
Rebecca Quick, a longtime sales representative in the adult novelty industry, passed away June 22 in Texas with her daughter, Heidi, at her side.
Have Something Good To Say
The most critical element of advertising sounds pretty simple - have something good to say. But, if you don't get this right, you can just forget about everything else...because your advertising will fail miserably without something good to say.
Small dicks mean big laughs in Vivid Entertainments wacky new comedy The Pinch, available in stores July 9th. The movie is directed by B. Skow and stars contract player Meggan Mallone and Sunny Lane.
Rhyse and Rhylee Richards have joined talent agency LA Direct Models.
Trans performer Wendy Williams is set to host a T-girl July 4 bash in Lexington, Kentucky.
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The Swami interviews adult industry stars every week....
Antivirus maker Kaspersky Internet Security is entitled to immunity, under the CDA, from a suit claiming that its software interfered with the use of Zango’s downloadable programs.
Adult star Heidi Mayne is featured in a scene in the upcoming mainstream flick by Sacha Baron Cohen “Bruno,” which was filmed unbeknownst by Mayne.
COLT Studio exclusive Ricky Parks and Hot House exclusive Ethan Wolfe are among the gay adult performers toplining gay pride festivities throughout the weekend.
Video sharing website GayTube.com has cracked the 200,000-member milestone.
Hot Video magazine has revealed the 29 categories for the Hot d'Or Awards Show Oct. 20 in Paris.
Adult webmaster software provider Chameleon has announced the release of its latest offering, ready galleries.
Sunny Leone will be performing live and chatting on CamModels.com today and tomorrow.
Each week 3 lucky fans win the opportunity to star in the live debauchery from Immoral Studios..
Sponsored by CECash, CamZ, Netbilling, DatingGold and OrbitalPay, the Porn Poker Tour is returning to InterNEXT Miami.
Alanah Rae will make her dancing debut at Al’s Diamond Cabaret in Reading, Penn.
According to Reuters, Indias government has banned the popular, and controversial, cartoon porn site Savitabhabhi.com.
AdultStarProfits.com has announced its celebration of performer RayVeness' 19th year in the adult entertainment industry.
AVN® Media Network, Inc., the worlds largest consolidator of adult content and information, today announced Nixon Marques as its new corporate creative director. Marques is responsible for strategically setting the creative direction for all AVN branded products and services, and will help lead the effort to reinvent and drive the brand globally.
CalExotics has announced the release of new products.
IMLive celebrity events are always free for current IMLive.com members.
The Score Group ventures into epic territory with new feature Mamazon, starring bountifully bosomed centerfolds from the pages of Score magazine.
Spanish all-male production house Jalifstudio has the fourth installment of its pro/am casting series on tap. Sexpic has a clothing-fetish theme.
The gay studio said a nearly 50 percent reduction in the suggested retail price of DVDs occurred in response to recession-prompted consumer desires.
The makers of LifeStyles Condoms, one of the nation's top condom brands, announces the release of the X2 Condom lubricated inside and out with LifeStyles' proprietary Excite sexual enhancement gel.
Adult 3D universe RedLightCenter.com will team up with adult Twitter-aggregating network NaughtyTweet.com for a virtual Twitter party.
The AIDS Healthcare Foundation (or AHF) held a press conference where they demanded mandatory condom use in all sex scenes. Even with AIM’s meticulous testing procedures, AHF believes it’s the state and county’s duty to protect adult performers by forcing them to wear condoms, even no one wants that!
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The code for the release candidate download of the new Microsoft OS is available until Aug. 15. After that date it can still be installed, but the code won't be available.
The Pirate Bay trial judge was not biased, a court rules. The ever-defiant convicted site owners are planning to sue Sweden for human rights violations.
In the latest round of Web censorship in China, citizens were temporarily blocked Wednesday through Thursday from Google, as well as from Gmail and YouTube, reports indicate.
Adult performer Seth Dickens released this statement to avn.com, clarifying his involvement in AIM's recent quarantine:
Tenga, the best-selling male sex toy in Japan entering the U.S. market this year, is sponsoring Jimmy's Naughty Nightie Night on June 27 at the Palms in Las Vegas.
The lifeblood of any online merchant is the payment system. And the currency of choice for the online world is the credit or debit card.
NY Congressman Eric Massa has introduced bill designed to prevent and possibly cap excessive Internet use charges. The Broadband Internet Fairness Act would require Internet providers to get permission from the FTC before shifting to usage-based pricing. Also, ISPs would have to hold public hearings, just like utilities, before they'd be allowed to raise rates.
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Don't mess with global toy-marker Lego in a domain name, because they WILL get you.
The site includes the 50 movies in which Volny appeared for European gay studio Staxus as well as exclusive candid scenes and images from Volnys personal collection.
Apple approved its first softcore porn application for iPhones, but it's already off the virtual shelves at the App Store
Big-Breasted Babe to Ready for 'Crazy' Crowds'.
ICANN has proposed an expansion of domain extensions beyond .com, .net, etc., as well as changing rules regarding registrars and registry operations.
The Association of Sites Advocating Child Protection (ASACP) is pleased to announce that MojoHost has become its newest Corporate Sponsor.
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There were rumors of Kagney Linn Karter's return to the stage in recent months and now it's finally happened.
Champagne shows, the human banana split show and plenty of interactive fun.
The inaugural Air Sex World Championships tour kicked off in Toronto last week. Apparently Air Sex is like Air Guitar, but instead of pretending to play an invisible guitar, contestants pretend to have sex with an invisible person. I wasn’t at all surprised when I read that the concept of Air Sex originated in Japan; I swear the weirdest shit comes from Japan!
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Whether she dresses as a pussy cat or an innocent school girl, Courtney makes sure she pleases all of her fans on stage.
THE MARKETING EQUATION (Part 4)
Educate
Now that the prospect has been successfully interrupted and engaged, your job as marketer is to become the facilitator of information–-the fountain from whence all knowledge flows when it comes to figuring out how to buy what you sell.
You’ve got to give them enough information–-quantified, specific, delineated
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Cindy's stage show keeps evolving and there are some new surprises.
Vivid girl Savanna Samson is co-hosting this years Safer Sex in the City fundraiser being held at the Duvet nightclub on Thursday, June 25. The event benefits the AIDS Service Center NYC, a community-based non-profit organization.
While it appeared China might back off its mandate for all computers sold in the country as of July 1 to include filtering software, that doesn’t seem to be the case.
The FTC is planning to put the smack down on bloggers who review or promote products while being compensated. The new guidelines would allow the FTC to go after bloggers and the companies that compensate them, over false claims or failure to disclose conflicts of interest.
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The Association of Sites Advocating Child Protection (ASACP) was in Washington D.C. last week participating in the semi-annual meeting of the Financial Coalition Against Child Pornography.
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THE MARKETING EQUATION (Part 3)
Yesterday I talked about how John Smith's brain works. Here is more information about what makes for successful marketing that's relevant to the prospect, or John Smith:
Activators & Hot Buttons
ACTIVATORS
An activator is anything that snaps a person out of Alpha Mode and into Beta.
Portland Mayor Sam Adams will not face charges in a sex scandal that has occupied his administration for more than six months. The young male aide involved in the scandal went on to pose for the gay adult magazine Unzipped.
The sultry Sunset will be in WeHo to sign copies of her new book, 'Anatomy Of An Adult Film'.
Adult affiliate program BuddyProfits.com has inked an online marketing and affiliate management pact with all-male company COLT Studio Group.
skinworXXX contract star Teagan Presley is nominated for Adult Movie Entertainer of the Year at the annual Adult Nightclub & Exotic Dancer Awards show.
The ex-boyfriend of “The Real Housewives of New Jersey” cast member Danielle Staub is peddling a tape of the two of them en flagrante delicto. Steve Zalewski told Star magazine that his ex is a sex fiend.
The Federal Trade Commission targets bloggers who get freebies with new guidelines it plans to implement this summer.
The partnership will see COLT develop and produce original, all-male erotic content while Buddy Profits administers the studios membership sites, online marketing and affiliate program.
West Coast Productions will street “Booty Talk Favorite Asses 5” on June 22.
Too Much Media (TMM), creators of the popular NATS affiliate program backend as well as other software targeting the adult market, today revealed a sneak peek at its latest offering: a premium tube site script.
Carrier-neutral data center EvoSwitch has announced a deal with The Wikimedia Foundation, operator and owner of Wikipedia, one of the world's five largest websites, to use EvoSwitch's Amsterdam site as its HUB for Europe.
Kelly dances and hosts; five other feature stars dance too, one per night.
For purposes of this "oversimplified" evaluation, we will focus on the method that most people that deal in domains on a regular basis use to valuate domains on a wholesale level.
Sin City has released “Royal Rumble,” which streets today.
Following an admonishment from the Chinese government, Google has agreed to remove pornographic search results from its Chinese portal. At the same time, the U.S. State Department has filed an official protest over China's mandate for pre-installed filtering software on computers.
PimpRoll has announced the acquisition of the MassiveDollars.com affiliate program and its relaunch.
"It's all scenes that have never been seen before on DVD," Antigua Pictures' David Peskin said.
To filter or not to filter? That is the question, when it comes to public libraries. While a 2003 Supreme Court decision ruled for protecting children on library computers, the debate continues over what adults can view in a space with children present.
A must read article! A few weeks ago an adhoc study by pornnews.com was released revealing how well adult industry studios were protecting their content from online piracy. The study has since been updated and is now using an online adult DVD retailer’s Bestsellers list to combat complaints that current titles were not included.
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iPorn and AVN co-present the Internext Bikini Invitational poolside at the Westin Diplomat Resort & Spa on August 8.
The alleged sex tape of "Gossip Girl" star Leighton Meester is said to be going for $1 million. Meanwhile, there's also reportedly a sex tape coming from "Real Housewives of New Jersey" TV personality Danielle Staub.
Stockroom, a leading online marketer of fetish gear, has unveiled Ballz Gag, a patent-pending bondage device that carries sexual fetish play to a new level of intimacy.
THE MARKETING EQUATION (Part 2)
Friday I talked about the marketing equation (interrupt, engage, educate and offer). This is why this works:
How John Smith’s Brain Works - 3 Major concepts: RETICULAR ACTIVATOR, ALPHA MODE AND BETA MODE
Reports swirled online over the weekend about a supposed emergency visit by Larry Flynt to a Los Angeles hospital Saturday for causes unknown.
Vivid Entertainment has set a July 1st release date for its highly anticipated thriller Heaven, available on standard DVD and Blu-ray disc. Directed by Paul Thomas, the big-budget feature stars Lanny Barby and AVN award-winning starlet Hilary Scott.
Vivid Entertainment has set a July 1st release date for its highly anticipated thriller Heaven, available on standard DVD and Blu-ray disc. Directed by Paul Thomas, the big-budget feature stars Lanny Barby and AVN award-winning starlet Hilary Scott.
Adult affiliate program EarnCoin has announced the launch of fetish site SnatchSizers.com.
Adult webmaster affiliate program Adult Profit has announced the release of a new marketing tool designed to rotate Flash-based advertisements.
ActionGirls.com owner Scotty JX has signed a deal with DeniseMilani.com to distribute “The Best Babes of the Web Vol. 1: Denise Milani.”
Playboy has filed suit against eFashion Solutions, the company it farmed out its ecommerce retail operations, claiming it breached its contract when it canceled website-management obligations for Playboy.com.
New Sensations has released R- and triple-X rated versions of the trailer to their spoof of “Seinfeld.”
The latest niche site to join the HustlerCash.com portfolio is TooManyTrannies.com, a T-girl first for the company.
XPays and Internet Commerce Group will finally get their day in federal court Sept. 15 in a copyright infringement case that dates back three years over the infamous Paris Hilton sex tape, "One Night in Paris."
SkinworXXX star, producer and co-owner Eva Angelina is feature dancing at Oasis through tomorrow.
Efforts to combat Internet copyright piracy through file sharing are heating up in Europe as governments seek solutions to an ever-growing problem around the globe.
Video-on-demand site marks Gay Pride in the Bay Area with back-to-back weekends of events, featuring some of the biggest porn stars, member discounts for parties, porn giveaways, and a video extravaganza at San Franciscos legendary "Pink Saturday" celebration.
RockHard Weekend, a division of RockHard Laboratories, is hosting Kid Rock's summer tour.
Digital Playground has released “You & Us” on DVD and Blu-ray.
A 4,800-page FBI file on “Deep Throat” director Gerard Damiano released to the Associated Press following a Freedom of Information Act request shows the lengths agents nationwide went in an attempt to prevent a shift toward the acceptance of erotic entertainment.
TV's Leighton Meester is caught in a scandal-laden situation seemingly lifted right out of her CW series: a starring role in a sex tape that's already being sold online.
Metro Content announced Friday the launch of its cutting-edge, Flash streaming, IPTV website RedHotTV.com.
Adult star Shy Love is set to rock her feature dance show in Little Rock, Ark. this weekend. Love is performing at the Paper Moon Club.
Previously unreleased documents obtained from the FBI by the Associated Press uncover a sweeping campaign to halt the dissemination of Deep Throat.
The Oscar-winning screenwriter of Milk will appear June 24 on behalf of Heritage of Pride.
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