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Obscene Losses - DVDs Are Dead?

DVD sales are in free fall. Audiences are flocking to pornographic knockoffs of YouTube, especially a secretive site called YouPorn. And the amateurs are taking over. What’s happening to the adult-entertainment industry is exactly what’s happening to its Hollywood counterpart—only worse.
Just got done reading a long and interesting article on the porn industry from Conde […]

 Forget for a moment about traffic leaks, forget about affiliates, forget about everything except one thing - the paysite’s tour.
I had to think REAL hard why “leaks” bother me. The answer is real simple.
When I ran my paysites and designed a tour, I didn’t have affiliates best interest in mind at all. In fact, I […]

What Is The 80-20 Rule?

I have been real busy lately and have been thinking about the 80-20 rule. As an adult webmaster with a degree in Mathematics, I tend to be a little number orientated. WikiPedia says the following about the 80-20 rule,
The Pareto principle (also known as the 80-20 rule, the law of the vital few and the […]

The Power Of A Link

This is a link that my employee has on one of his AEN sites. He put it below the script. His reasoning went like this; surfer comes to site, goes through tour, hits the join page, sees the script, either clicks a link on the script, or scrolls down.
What? A surfer would scroll all the […]

I Caught A Whale

Actually, I caught quite a few to be exact.
The term “whale” has many meanings in this business. A whale can be an affiliate that can send a large amount of signups to a sponsor. A whale can be porn consumer who spends a considerable amount of money on a live show or VOD site. A […]

Few studies that I know of have been done on the “psychology” of the porn surfer. Pornusers.com has been doing some polling with porn surfers that give us webmasters an idea of what drives the typical porn buyer.
They have created over 150 user polls, with topics ranging from “How often do you let your trial […]