YNOT – AVN founder Paul Fishbein and former AVN Media Network Chief Executive Officer Darren Roberts have launched a network that aims to provide consumer-oriented news, entertainment, documentaries and talk shows about the adult industry to cable, web and broadcast outlets. At...

YNOT – The Healthy Families Subcommittee in Florida’s House of Representatives has approved a bill that would bar recipients of government assistance from using their electronic benefits cards at strip clubs, casinos, liquor stores and gun shops. The bill is not expected to face...

YNOT – Porn parodies of pop-culture phenomena have proven popular with consumers. From classic TV to big-budget Hollywood to graphic novels and reality series, adult studios can’t seem to skewer entertainment icons — or porn starlets — fast enough. Spanish performer-director...

By Erika Icon YNOT – E-book publishing is all the rage, thanks in large part to services like Amazon’s Kindle Direct Publishing that allow Average Joes and Janes to circumvent the traditional publishing machine and take their wares directly to consumers. With the runaway success...

YNOT – Adobe released a critical patch this week to address four flaws in its popular Flash software. All four holes could have been exploited by hackers to execute code remotely on vulnerable machines. Though no longer in development for the mobile web, Flash remains the most...

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...

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...