YNOT – Ralph Greco Jr., contractor in the South Florida online marketing agency PearlyWrites LLC, has signed on to write a weekly column for popular New York City lifestyle and entertainment blog shortandsweetnyc.com. Greco’s column, “Sex Files,” debuted Feb. 11 and since has...

YNOT – MakeBank has acquired rival adult affiliate program PerSignup. As part of the merger, MakeBank added 38 niched websites to its portfolio. The new sites are now part of MakeBank’s new tiered payout plan that offers webmaster as much as $50 per sale when they send their...

YNOT – Vivid Entertainment Co-Chairman Steven Hirsch isn’t a particularly shy man, and the mainstream media is eternally grateful. On Monday, Hirsch dished about the recession and porn — and porn’s recession — to Hollywood observer TheWrap.com. At the forefront of the industry...

YNOT – As a quick scan across the Internet will tell you, porn is changing. Alt.porn is just the beginning. The Playboy world of busty blonde babes belongs to yesterday – unless you’re into vintage porn.To look at how porn is changing, the Sexual Diversity Studies’ Student Union...

YNOT – Through the end of March, Montreal-based webcam affiliate network LiveBucks is offering a special increased payout: Receive $100 for each new sign-up sent via the program’s SuperFeeds contents plugin. The offer is not constrained by minimum commitments or sales targets,...

YNOT – Thank goodness the days of cheesy, bongo-drum based porn music are long gone, but is the world really ready for a porn musical?According to Vivid Entertainment and award-winning director Axel Braun, the answer is “yes.” With his upcoming porn parody Batman XXX now in the...

YNOT – When third-party biller iBill went belly up in 2006, it left a cadre of online adult entertainment merchants gnashing their teeth and bemoaning the loss of boatloads of unpaid revenue. Three and one-half years later, a new company bearing the same name and employing some...

YNOT – During its second year in existence, the Barcelona Summit (Feb. 19-21) attracted 435 participants from 30 countries, leading its organizers to declare the event a rousing success.“With industry shows in general showing a decline in participation, the summit managed to grow...

YNOT – PunkBucks, a new affiliate program devoted to the alt-porn niche, launched in late February. In the works for more than a year according to its developers, the program went live with one pay site, but others are expected to launch soon.The flagship website,...

YNOT – ICM Registry LLC President Stuart Lawley is a patient man. He has waited seven years for ICANN to breathe life into the dot-xxx sponsored Top-Level Domain ICM wants to manage.And seven years is long enough, he said Thursday in a letter to the chairman of the board of...