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Capitalizing on the Colombian Adult Industry
Colombia is a highly profitable region for the adult industry, largely due to the booming live cam industry, which ranks it high up in the multi-billion dollar global market alongside the likes of Romania. Unbeknownst to many, a search for the “Latin” category on many adult websites will bring up results with 98% Colombian models, according to our research, with the remaining 2% divided between Mexico and Brazil.
Adventures in Brokering: Don’t Charge for Potential
When it comes to the three different types of properties we sell at Broker.xxx — businesses, websites and domains — it is domains that are the hardest to sell. That’s because domains are almost entirely all unrealized “potential,” and you cannot sell a business on “potential” alone. I’ve run into this many times since I started buying and selling properties back in 2001, as well as during my investing and venture capital experiences.
Q&A: XBIZ Best Male Premium Social Media Star Reno Gold Arises
Reno Gold is a man of few words. After all, his impressive repertoire of stylish fashion, fan-engaging hijinks and killer content speaks volumes. With a combined Twitter and Instagram following of more than 600,000 avid enthusiasts watching this Floridian’s every move and gleeful grin, Gold has… well… struck gold.
The Master Keys to the New Mastercard Rules
It’s been a hot topic this year and now we’re just over a month away from the new Mastercard regulations taking effect. The official date when enforcement begins is October 15, 2021, but many of you have likely felt the impact of the new regulations already. Banks started to implement new policies and requirements well before the enforcement start date to ensure compliance.
Monetizing All Your Bite-Sized Content
One of the underrated components of being a content creator is finding ways to use all of your content creatively. From meticulously planned content shoots to more candid fare like a selfie snapped while walking your dog, there’s always a way to make some extra money.
Catfishing: Not All Imitation Is Flattery
Creating an image and reputation your fans and supporters trust takes time and a lot of work. When someone with ill intent decides to steal that image for sexual or financial gain, even with all of that work you personally put in gaining and building trust, you will inevitably have fans fall for their antics. This in turn negatively impacts that reputation you’ve worked so hard on. As people who make most of their money online, this not only affects our image, but also our paychecks.
Q&A: XBIZ Best Cam Duo Pablo, Sebas Cortés Thrive
The reigning 2021 XBIZ Best Cam Model Duo, Pablo and Sebas Cortés, first met in 2019 through TikTok. They soon discovered they both lived in Spain a mere 140 miles away from each other in different cities. “After following one another on social media, liking posts and chatting daily, we decided to plan our first in-person date,” Pablo shared. Our work allows us to have a lot of free time. When we aren’t streaming or filming, we love lying on the couch at home, ordering food and watching Netflix.
Serving the Unique Desires of Male Cam Model Fans
Every day, new sexy men go online to become award-winning cam guys in search of a loyal fan base, fame, fortune and amazing memories. The path from unknown newbie to becoming a world-class male-identifying cam star is paved with the frequent requests that models in the genre get in private shows and public chat rooms from prospective customers. One major gap in the knowledge base of most new performers is exactly what kinds of things they will be asked about or asked to do in private shows.
Water-based Cam Shows for the Summer Season
Summer is the time to travel, chill by the swimming pool, go to the beach and flaunt that hot summer body. Those all sound like great cam show opportunities, if you ask me… so how about turning seasonal activities to your advantage? Users love to see something out of the ordinary, and that can result in more earnings for you. The good thing about summer is that it allows for many fetishes to blossom — exposed feet and other body parts, anyone?
Catering to North American Fans on Cam
All fans are great fans, but whether you’re a North American (NA) performer or streaming from another country, it’s a great feeling — and highly lucrative — to be well known to a Western audience. Not only are those fans more likely to visit you during trade shows in the region, but you can also ship prizes and merchandise to them more easily if you’re based in places like the U.S. or Canada.
Cam Tips for Mature Models
Mature cam models are like fine wine, only getting better and more luxurious with age. As a master of seduction, you have fans flocking to your room because you know just how to tempt and tease them into a state of complete ecstasy. Sure, camming as a mature model can be a bit more challenging, but there are ways to ensure you get the kind of attention you deserve as you continue your successful career into your 40s, 50s and beyond.
Wet and Wild Cam Shows for This Extra Hot Season
Summer is the time to travel, chill by the swimming pool, go to the beach and flaunt that hot summer body. Those all sound like great cam show opportunities, if you ask me… so how about turning seasonal activities to your advantage? Users love to see something out of the ordinary, and that can result in more earnings for you. The good thing about summer is that it allows for many fetishes to blossom — exposed feet and other body parts, anyone?
Building a Branded Fan Community
I first started camming back in 2014 after I saw an ad on Craigslist for a job that allowed you to make money online, work from home and be your own boss. I tested out a few different platforms, before discovering Chaturbate was the place I wanted to be because of the inclusivity, community and freedom. Now, seven years later, I have an amazing community of fans, over 510K followers on the cam site and 138K followers on Twitter.
WIA Profile: Heather K.
Each month, XBIZ spotlights the career accomplishments and outstanding contributions of Women in Adult. WIA profiles offer an intimate look at the professional lives of the industry's most influential female executives. Leveraging skills she mastered from years of mainstream marketing experience, Heather K. is hard at work growing the expanding base of fans and streamers on the recently launched adult camming platform ePlay.
Brokers Are Key to Optimal Domain Pricing
Since my first website negotiation back in 2001, I’ve seen buyers and sellers make all sorts of different mistakes. These are what I call “The Deadly Sins of Selling Your Website,” and it’s exactly why you should hire a broker to handle the process. The single biggest mistake sellers make when they contact me is grossly overpricing their websites.
Vigilance at Work and at Home to Stop Credit Card Fraud
What do the California State Controller’s Office, Hobby Lobby, Cancer Treatment Centers of America, Facebook, LinkedIn, Clubhouse, and ParkMobile have in common? According to IdentityForce, these seven entities, which include California’s independent fiscal watchdog, a few social networks and a contactless-payment parking app, were all subjected to major security breaches in the last month — and these are just the ones we know about so far.
Should You Use the Copyright Claims Board?
There will soon be a new tribunal in town in which to pursue copyright claims. As part of the omnibus spending bill, passed in late 2020, the federal government included the Copyright Alternative in Small-Claims Enforcement Act (CASE Act). The intent is to provide a streamlined process for resolving small-value copyright infringement cases through a new Copyright Claims Board (CCB).
Bits and Bytes: Get Your Site Speedy for Spring
Spring is in the air (at least for those of us in the Northern Hemisphere). It’s that magical time of the year when the promise of nice weather outside makes necessary spring cleaning indoors all that more difficult. With summer just around the corner, I’d like to offer some simple and easy “speedy” spring cleaning tips to improve your website’s performance. A surprising number of page templates load giant images into tiny display spaces. Does it work?
The Advantages of Having Your Own Performer Website
I have recently launched my official website, because after only using a link page with basic templates that was very plain, I realized it was time to step up the game at this point in my career. I wanted to upgrade my fans’ experience and utilize a proper design platform to make a smooth site. Why go through all the effort? Well, your own website has many advantages, considering that social media platforms and independent content sites may enforce their policies in ways you don’t expect.
Forming a Marketing Alliance With Other Creators
Know your competition, they say. Team up with your "competitors," I add. But why did I wrap the word in quotes? Well, because as adult performers, we can prosper greatly by partnering with others to promote our brands to mutual advantage, whether through content trades or marketing efforts. Even within the scope of studio shoots, which can be competitive when it comes to casting, your brand is unique due to your one-of-a-kind persona and personality.
Making Better Content Through Mindfulness
Mindfulness is a major buzzword lately, and with good reason. The way we navigate the ups and downs of our day-to-day lives has changed dramatically over the past 12 months; more and more people can’t help but let their worries and anxiety creep in. You may think that your personal troubles won’t directly affect the content you create, but the truth is that you can’t create great content today, if your mind is preoccupied with what might happen tomorrow.
Q&A: Chaturbate Reflects on Community, 10 Years of Growth
Chaturbate has skyrocketed in 10 years to become not only one of the most globally recognized camming brands, but one of the most-visited sites in adult, rivaling titanic tube sites with sheer volume. But what its visionary COO Shirley Lara most celebrates as she reflects on their landmark decade anniversary, is the power of community.
Q&A: Ember Snow Flexes Her Camming Power
Ready to ignite like the fiery glow her name implies, yet as calm, cool and collected as a wintry field, Ember Snow has her red-hot brand down to an ice-cold science. Yet she remains very humble and down-to-earth, no matter how far she’s come (and how many times she’s come) since her first scenes hit the internet back in 2017. “When I got into the industry originally, I was very guarded and cautious,” she reflected. “I still am, but I learned to trust the process very quickly.
Your Room, Your Rules: Setting Boundaries for Cam Fans
Fans visit cam sites because they know it's a surefire way to make their hottest fantasies come true, any time the mood for pleasure strikes. After all, where else on the planet can they enter a room, pick out the model of their dreams and ask for whatever they want? Many models embrace this fact and go the extra mile to put on a great show, especially when the customer is well-known to them or has a full wallet on deck.
The Pros and Cons of Mobile Streaming
In the adult industry, mobile streaming has continued gaining in popularity. It’s one of those crazes that’s here to stay, which is no surprise, given the endless possibilities new mobile technologies offer us. Now, there’s a growing number of models (and users) who turn to mobile cam shows.
Juggling Private and Public Messages Live on Cam
We all know that being a successful cam model is much more than just stripping for viewers if you want to make money long-term and be memorable. There is a lot of multitasking going on between putting on a visually pleasing show as well as interacting with viewers in your chat, from moderating your chat to making sure you’re in control of what’s going on.
Making Your Cam Room Profile Work for You
My name is Casey Kisses and I’m an award-winning cam model and adult performer on Chaturbate! I started camming six years ago and after years of hard work and consistency, I have grown my following to over 260K and have won awards from XBIZ, TEAs, Chaturbate and more.
WIA Profile: Laura Cebrian
Each month, industry news media organization XBIZ spotlights the career accomplishments and outstanding contributions of Women in Adult. WIA profiles offer an intimate look at the professional lives of the industry's most influential female executives.
Q&A: Certus Finance Paves the Way to Untapped Global Markets
Drawing upon decades of experience in the payment processing industry, deftly handling high-risk transactions for merchants that span undervalued global markets from India and Russia to the Middle East and Africa, Certus Finance is paving the way for richly realized international opportunities.
Building Your IP Strategy With a Comprehensive Approach
Establishing a comprehensive intellectual property strategy is extremely important to the long-term success of your adult business. Intellectual property refers to intangible assets such as inventive technologies, original content and proprietary brand names and taglines. These items can be protected by patents, copyright registrations and trademark registrations, respectively.
Q&A: Eva Elfie Takes Throne as Clips Queen of Europe
Three years ago, before she became Eva Elfie, the girl with the anime-figurine hourglass figure, signature platinum blonde hair, darker eye-brows and cautious-but-curious eyes was a journalism college student who waited tables, juggled office jobs like sales manager and HR rep and tried to break into broadcasting as an interviewer for local radio and TV stations in colder than cold Siberia.
The Hidden Costs of Cloud Storage
Cloud storage provides a truly transformative experience for developing and running software; it frees webmasters from the grinding concerns of continually getting new hard drives and eliminates the nagging doubt that a hard drive will fail, resulting in downtime data loss. Economies of scale mean that most providers offer cloud storage on a pay-as-you-go model, which is often just as cost effective as basic hard drive usage. The big benefit?
How to Convert Offers on Manga and Anime Websites
Advertisers are always looking for new traffic sources to convert their offers. Manga and anime websites are a great source of traffic even for adult offers, but targeting to this mainstream audience requires a different creative thought process, along with adhering to certain restrictions. So, why are manga and anime audiences a good traffic source? This category is a global phenomenon; it is a hugely popular content genre.
What’s Ahead for Payments as 2020 Comes to an End
If there ever was a year filled with change, it was 2020. I recently read a statistic in an Inc. news article that said due to COVID-19 we saw 15 years of behavior change in just 30 days. Everyone has been resilient and adaptive as they found new ways to survive. As we embrace the fact that 2020 is coming to an end, on its last day there are two additional changes scheduled to hit the payments industry across Europe: Brexit and PSD2.
Section 230 Isn’t a Blank Check to Shut Down Speech
Political censorship on social media sites should raise eyebrows of anyone working in adult. We, as an industry, should not support censorship in any way, as censoring some speech (whether we agree with it or not) will likely lead to continuing and worsened censorship of adult industry speech and expression. Instead, supporting education on fact-checking, first amendment rights and independent thought would lead to a better outcome for all.
Top 5 Fetishes for Extra Kinky Cam Shows
The warm days of summer have slowly faded into autumn, and the pumpkin spice is flowing like wine. While this is a great time to get your latte fix and put the finishing touches on your sexy Halloween costume, you may also want to start thinking about your holiday webcam shows. Yes, it’s only October. And yes, it’s annoying when people start talking about Christmas before Halloween is even over.
WIA Profile: Anna Lee
Each month, industry news media organization XBIZ spotlights the career accomplishments and outstanding contributions of Women in Adult. WIA profiles offer an intimate look at the professional lives of the industry's most influential female executives. A well-known and well-liked personality in the adult content production and technology arenas, Anna Lee sits at the helm of 2049 Entertainment, where she aptly continues to expand her creativity and horizons.
Q&A: Louis Montalvo Expertly Directs Affiliate Biz for Paper Street
Boasting powerhouse brands such as MYLF and Team Skeet, Paper Street Media is known for its compelling, high-quality, original content and its aggressive update schedule, along with the profit opportunities it offers for affiliate partners. Named “Paysite Affiliate of the Year” at the 2020 XBIZ Online Exec Awards in L.A., Paper Street Media has earned a well-deserved reputation as one of the industry’s most innovative and trustworthy companies.
Q&A: PinkLabel.com Sets Sights on White Label Market
As one of the most vibrant sectors of the adult entertainment industry, live cams have an exciting history of providing new opportunities for affiliates, models, networks and studios alike. Now, PinkLabel.com has elevated the game with the newest incarnation of the white- and black-label branding and marketing tools long-used by affiliates, marketers and studios to provide custom-branded services, and signed on one of the top freemium networks, CAM4.
Don’t Emulate Rogue Operators Just Because They’re Succeeding
I remember doing some pretty stupid stuff in my younger days. I couldn’t count the number of times that I got into trouble in school if my life depended on it, but what I do remember is that the majority of my stupidity didn’t stem from original ideas. Rather, most of my seemingly brilliant actions were actually emulations or copies of something I’d seen one of my “friends” do, or something I saw on television (we are talking pre-internet here).
Making Changes to Work Remotely as a Company
In the past, many companies offered some employees the opportunity to work remotely, while others insisted that their entire team work in-house at a centralized office. With the introduction of COVID-19, companies were forced to reassess the structure of their teams, and many are now benefiting from important lessons in flexibility, due diligence, milestones and charting.
Staying Connected in a Distanced World
We’ve all been feeling the squeeze, so to speak, of social distancing, though each of us is experiencing it differently. For some of us who are single, life can be lonely. For those married with kids, juggling life, work and finding new biz may feel overwhelming. Yet, we endure and continue finding ways to stay connected, and even thrive during this time.
What Type of Intellectual Property Protection Is Right for You?
As the pleasure products industry becomes more competitive, companies should look to protect the toys and tech they spend time and money to develop. Intellectual property (IP) laws can provide that protection, so long as particular qualifications are met and proper steps are taken. To navigate, you’ll need to understand what types of IP exist and ask yourself (and your attorney, if you have one) several questions as part of an analysis that I’ll explain here.
Q&A: ‘AK’ Reflects on 6 Years of Madzuma Success
With a tagline of “Capture. Convert. Retain. Optimize. Monetize,” Madzuma.com’s goal is to provide a one-stop-shop for all things digital. The brainchild of industry veteran Alfonsus Kusuma, better known as “AK,” Madzuma offers nearly 20 years of online marketing and business development experience for clients to draw upon. Madzuma works with a range of affiliates and owners — including both advertisers and publishers seeking to score with CPA, CPC, CPL, CPM and other offers.
Tackling Friendly Fraud During the COVID Era
The first thing people think of when it comes to fraud, is definitely not the word “friendly.” Friendly fraud, however, is a term used to reference a specific type of chargeback in which the customer claims they either did not receive a purchased item or never made a purchase in the first place. Overall, fraudulent chargebacks are on the rise, generating losses of over $30 billion and presenting serious issues that need to be addressed by e-commerce merchants.
The Democratization of Adult Gaming
During these uncertain times, many headlines in the mainstream press have popped up about the massive increase in our digital media consumption. From streaming to gaming, consumer traffic and sales have peaked amid lockdown restrictions imposed during the COVID-19 pandemic. It goes without saying that adult content consumption has likewise skyrocketed for the very same reasons, but is this trend reflected in the adult gaming segment?
Dealing With Domestic Abuse While Stuck Working From Home
The unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic resulted in a worldwide stay-at-home effort, which forced many adult industry employees, talent and content creators — as well as their partners and family members — to work in closer quarters than ever. Governments at the federal, state, provincial and local levels all issued restrictions on individuals’ ability to leave their residences.
Reflecting on Recent Legal Wins for Adult
While the COVID-19 era has caused serious economic pain for many, especially in porn production, there is some good news in the realm of legal developments that can offer a bit of light in the darkness. Backtracking to about a year ago in June of 2019, the United States Supreme Court axed the law that for decades prevented “scandalous and immoral” trademarks from being registered. This was huge, and paved the way for more wins this year. See, the plaintiff in Iancu v.
The Importance of Due Diligence Before Choosing a Brand Name
Choosing a name to act as a trademark for your company’s new pleasure product or lube is an important decision. There are so many things to balance like the way the mark looks, the way it sounds, the marketability, the meaning … and the likelihood it is legally available and protectable. That last factor is one that sometimes gets “lost in the fray,” as they say. In an increasingly crowded market, decision-makers should understand the elements that go into availability and protectability.
The Importance of Due Diligence Before Choosing a Name
Choosing a name to act as a trademark for your company’s new pleasure product or lube is an important decision. There are so many things to balance like the way the mark looks, the way it sounds, the marketability, the meaning … and the likelihood it is legally available and protectable. That last factor is one that sometimes gets “lost in the fray,” as they say. In an increasingly crowded market, decision-makers should understand the elements that go into availability and protectability.
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