Late in our phone interview, Ed Powers says something I hadn’t seen coming, at all: “By the way, this interview here – I’ve announced it’s my last interview.” Ed’s matter-of-fact manner in proclaiming this takes me aback momentarily. After all, I hadn’t called him expecting to be...

Look out OnlyFans, it sounds like Twitter is planning to eat (at least part of) your lunch. During its Analyst Day event, Twitter revealed a paid subscription service it has been working on for a while now. They’re calling the service “Super Follow,” and subscribers will pay...

When faced with a crowded, competitive market, many entrepreneurs setting out to launch a new product or platform will seek a narrow niche that’s underserved – a nook where their creation might have fewer potential customers, but where they will also be fighting for attention...

It doesn’t take long working within adult entertainment to realize the adult industry isn’t just about performing, creating and marketing content and other, more obvious facets of the industry’s day to day. Just like any other market or business sector, there are scores of...

There’s a good number of experienced, prominent and high-quality attorneys who have served the adult entertainment industry well over the last several decades. But to my knowledge, only one of them has also operated adult websites of his own, giving him an added degree of insight...

Sometimes, it can be difficult for an entrepreneur to pinpoint a precise moment of inspiration that led her to create a product, develop an idea, or explore a new approach to the market. Other times, the source of her motivation boils down to a single motivating event, a moment...

When Jim Austin set out to launch qrush.com (pronounced “crush”), he wasn’t thinking primarily about the challenge of doing so during a pandemic; he was focused on how to set his new content/fan platform apart from the formidable competition already on the market. “We all know...

Starting up and growing a new business or launching a new project is a demanding task even in ideal market conditions – and it’s safe to say the conditions imposed on the adult entertainment industry by a global pandemic are far from ideal. In a sense, entrepreneurship relies on...

In this YNOT Summit session, executives from major webcam networks discuss how their respective websites rank performers on their front pages.

Since the dawn of the adult internet, one of the more tried and true paths to carving out market share has been niche content specialization. At each phase of the online adult industry’s evolution, niche sites have quickly emerged within each trend in content production and...