YNOT – Effective March 14, active adult-industry performers no longer will be required to include the Trep-Sure test for syphilis in their routine health-certification panels, Adult Production Health & Safety Services announced. Trep-Sure has been replaced in the panels by...

YNOT – The dating scene in Brazil must be tough. As promotion for the first international convention of inflatable dolls, which took place March 9-13 in São Paulo, sex shop Sexônico mounted an online auction of Brazil’s first lifelike sex doll. The winning bid at midnight March...

By Stewart Tongue YNOT – The sales biz ain’t what it used to be, as one South Carolina woman discovered recently when she attempted to drum up a little spare cash by selling porn door to door.

YNOT – Mainstream virtual pinboards are in their infancy; adult pinboards even more so. Across the spectrum the sites are popular with end-users, though the jury remains out about how effective pinboards are as marketing tools. Some analysts believe the visual nature of the...

YNOT – UK-based WhiteLabelDating’s expansion into the U.S. took another step Wednesday with the appointment of entrepreneur and marketing professional Glenn Millar to the post of U.S. Country Manager. Millar, based in San Francisco, will oversee operations in the U.S.,...

YNOT – For adult websites in general, and cam sites in particular, end-user experience often means the difference between a sale and wasted bandwidth. When the target market includes gay men — typically early adopters of new technology — refreshing and remodeling online...

YNOT – Following a year of testing “in the wild,” Gamma Entertainment’s FameDollars division has launched a new program to help affiliates convert tube-site traffic. The Tube Content Partner Program offers video clips tested and proven to convert on multiple tubes. At launch, the...

YNOT – Porn fans represent gold for companies that operate adult websites. While casual viewers are happy to watch the free material on tube sites and other user-submitted-content destinations, they typically aren’t interested in paying for their porn fix. True fans, on the other...

YNOT – The twain between old-school content and new-age technology has met at PVLocker with Arrow Productions’ Golden Age porn appearing on Pink Visual’s cloud-based distribution platform. PVLocker’s initial selection of classic Arrow content includes Deep Throat, Bill Osco’s...

By Adrian DeGus YNOT – Search marketing has come a long way since the introduction of search engines. What worked in the beginning didn’t work a year later, and what worked last year doesn’t necessarily work now. Some strategies, however, worked so well throughout a...