Every marketer knows one cost-effective, easy, lazy, zeitgeisty promotional tool that has the potency to take their marketing A-Game to the next level while avoiding cliché practices like using the term “next level” is content marketing. Content is King, after all. Or maybe in...

NEW YORK – I’m not one to leap to outrageous conclusions based on just a couple similar stories appearing in the press, but some recent news items have me concerned about the state of the market for a class of product which is central to the ongoing health of the adult industry....

LOS ANGELES – About a month ago, I threatened promised I’d soon write an obligatory porn-predictions post for 2018, as a companion piece to my obligatory year-in-review of 2017, naturally. The time for that post has come, because the conditions are perfect – by which I mean it’s...

LOS ANGELES – One of two things happened to me recently: either I accidentally traveled back in time, or I experienced one of those infamous “acid flashbacks” people who have never taken acid occasionally talk about, typically when they’re listing reasons why I probably shouldn’t...

LAS VEGAS – Depending on whose recently-published perspective on VR porn you read, you will be told VR porn is either a highly addictive existential threat to humanity which is rapidly gaining steam, or kind of an overhyped dud. Since I’m inherently more interested in (and,...

SAN FRANCISCO – It was early 1998, and I’d had my online porn-job for about eight months. The company was quite small, and as fate would have it, when the office phone’s main line rang that afternoon, I was the only one available to answer. When I did, I was met with a very...

LOS ANGELES – Remember when Milli Vanilli got busted for not being the real singers behind hits like “Girl You Know It’s True” and “Blame It on the Rain”? Even after they released their confessional follow-up hit “OK, Girl, So Maybe You Know It’s Not Entirely True,” the world...

MONTREAL – For modern porn fans, User-Generated Content (“UGC”) has been a godsend. UGC is the lifeblood not just of adult tube sites, but YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and countless other sites and platforms to which creative individuals have uploaded their homemade videos, memes,...

LOS ANGELES – In late December of each year, I take some time to look back at the events, news stories, people and companies which shaped the year in porn – or those which made me laugh, cringe, or facepalm with real vigor, at least. I don’t do this just because it’s an...

TAMPA – For the record, if you’re a lawyer, the right to film yourself banging someone inside a jail’s private meeting room is not what the courts mean by “attorney-client privilege.” Don’t tell that to Tampa attorney Andrew Spark, though – mostly because this helpful tip...