MIAMI — Lana Blade stars in the latest FMN.Network scene, “Immoral Study,” alongside Eli Thomas.
“Lana Blade slacked off and basically turned into a bad girl,” the synopsis reveals. “Her grades in school are terrible, so her rich parents hired a home teacher. Upon seeing this handsome professor, she can’t contain herself and seduces him, and it seems that the first lesson will be a footjob.”
The scene is streaming on FMN.Network.
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LOS ANGELES — Hime Marie has scored the 2024 XBIZ Awards nomination for Cam Model of the Year.
“I am so incredibly grateful to XBIZ for being nominated for Cam Model of the Year again,” Marie said. “Balancing mainstream shoots and maintaining a presence on a webcam isn’t easy, yet it’s so important to me that I do so; it’s where I got my start in the industry and where my loyal fan base lies — and I couldn’t do it without them. Thank you all.”
The 2024 XBIZ Awards will recognize the best in the industry on Sunday, Jan. 21 at the historic Hollywood Palladium. In keeping with tradition, select award categories under Web & Technology, Pleasure Products and Retail will be presented at the two editions of the annual XBIZ Honors ceremonies.
Voting is now open. Click here for a full list of nominees.
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BUDAPEST — Creator/producer Romero’s sites Hentaied and Parasited have each nabbed the 2024 XBIZ Awards nomination for Specialty Site of the Year.
“Last year, Hentaied won Fetish Site of the Year,” said Romero. “With two nominations in the Specialty Site of the Year category, we have a good chance of taking home another XBIZ trophy. Thank you, XBIZ, for recognizing the creativity and hard work we put into every scene on both sites and for the nominations.”
The 2024 XBIZ Awards will recognize the best in the industry on Sunday, Jan. 21 at the historic Hollywood Palladium. In keeping with tradition, select award categories under Web & Technology, Pleasure Products and Retail will be presented at the two editions of the annual XBIZ Honors ceremonies.
Voting is now open. Click here for a full list of nominees.
For more information, visit Hentaied and Parasited.
HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — Director Jim Powers has scored seven 2024 XBIZ Awards nominations.
The categories that Powers and his projects have been nominated for include Director the Year — Trans Movies, All-Girl Series of the Year (“Lez Be Bad”), Web Series/Channel of the Year (for “Lez Be Bad,” “MILF Overload” and “Accidental Gangbang”) and Trans Movie of the Year (for “Trans Am” and “Trans Honey Trap 2”).
“Thank you, XBIZ, for all these nominations,” said Powers. “I’d love to win Director of the Year — Trans Movies. It would mean a lot to me and the performers I work with on a daily basis.”
The 2024 XBIZ Awards will recognize the best in the industry on Sunday, Jan. 21 at the historic Hollywood Palladium. In keeping with tradition, select award categories under Web & Technology, Pleasure Products and Retail will be presented at the two editions of the annual XBIZ Honors ceremonies.
Voting is now open. Click here for a full list of nominees.
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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Google disabled on Tuesday its Programmable Search Engine (ProSE) marketing product from several adult sites, after an attention-grabbing report for an analytics company was sensationalized by two advertising industry trade publications.
According to Google’s VP of Global Ads Dan Taylor, ProSE is only a minuscule part of its powerful Search Partner Network, described as “a free search tool we offer to small websites so that they can present a search experience directly on their sites.”
“Ads may appear based on the user’s specific search query,” Taylor added. “They are not targeted to, or based on, the website they appear on. Websites that merely implement ProSE do not get any ad revenue from those ads.”
The scandal started when research company Adalytics, which offers optimization services to marketers, released a report claiming that high-profile company ads delivered by Google were appearing alongside controversial content.
The report was picked up by writers from major advertising industry publications Adweek and Ad Age, which headlined and editorially adjectivized their pieces in a sensational manner aimed at lumping the adult industry with illegal and dangerous content.
“Google Search Ads End Up on Pornographic and Sanctioned Sites” Adweek headlined their piece. Similarly, Ad Age went with “Google Served Brand Search Ads Through Porn Sites and Other Problematic Partners, Adalytics Finds.”
Adweek: Adult Sites Are ‘Undesirable,’ ‘Unsavory’
Adweek’s Catherine Perloff led her piece with “When Apple, Goldman Sachs and other large brands bought Google search ads over the last year, these ads not only appeared across search queries like ‘best credit cards,’ but also on more unsavory sites, according to research from ad-tech research outfit Adalytics.”
Perloff lumped websites which featured “copyrighted” — by which she most likely meant presumably pirated — and “pornographic content, as well as sites for Iranian and Russian corporations sanctioned by the U.S. government.”
The findings, Perloff claimed, “are spurring marketers to reassess their Google Search and Performance Max (Pmax) spend.”
Referring to Google’s network as part of a “convoluted programmatic ecosystem,” Perloff continued her stigmatization of the adult industry calling its sites “undesirable environments for advertisers” and “unsavory websites.”
Perloff explained that Google’s policy “prohibit publishers from monetizing pornography, committing intellectual property offenses and having backing from an entity sanctioned by the U.S. government.”
According to Google’s official policy, the company does not allow into its ads ecosystem content that “includes graphic sexual text, image, audio, video, or games (e.g., sex acts such as genital, anal, and/or oral sex; masturbation; cartoon porn or hentai; graphic nudity); or contains non-consensual sexual themes, whether simulated or real (e.g., rape, incest, bestiality, necrophilia, snuff, lolita or teen-themed pornography, underage dating).”
According to Adweek, the Adalytics’ report “found more than 36,000 websites in the Google Search Partner Network eligible for advertising, 390 of which are pornographic and four of which are websites belonging to entities sanctioned by the U.S. government. Adalytics also found more than 2,200 domains in the Search Partner Network that seemed to violate copyright laws. The report found Adweek ads on an Italian porn site.”
Google replied to Adweek’s query by noting that Adalytics’ claims are “wildly exaggerated.”
After Adweek told Google that specific examples violated its terms of service, the company disabled ProSE on the adult websites.
Ad Age Lumps Porn, Government-Sanctioned Companies
Ad Age’s Jack Neff led his article by explaining that “Google’s huge but obscure network of search partners — used, perhaps unknowingly, by thousands of advertisers including such titans as Procter & Gamble Co., big banks and U.S. law enforcement and military recruitment advertisers — included at least until yesterday Iranian, Italian, Vietnamese and other porn sites and websites of companies subject to U.S. sanctions.”
Neff wrote that Adalytics’ report was prompted by a client who was “searching for why brand ads were appearing on Breitbart, another Google Search Partner, even though the controversial right-wing website was on the company’s exclusion lists.”
While the initial aim and the focus of the report was local and international politics — Adweek mentions ads placed on sanctioned Iranian and Russian non-adult companies — both trade publications decided to lead the story with the porn angle.
“By Monday evening, within 12 hours of when Google was contacted for comment by journalists,” Neff celebrated, “porn sites that had been serving Google ads and were brought to Google’s attention either had their Google search widgets removed or rendered inoperative.”
Neff also quoted marketers referring to the situation as “a cesspool” and lumping “sites that are non-brand-safe” with sites sanctioned by the Office of Foreign Asset Control.
“There’s reputational risk in being on porn sites,” one of the marketers concluded. “We all know that.”
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Dungeon Store will exhibit at Exxxotica D.C., Dec. 1-3.
For the exhibition, The Dungeon Store will be highlighting pleasure products from their sister store, Split Peaches.
“We’re offering up to 30 percent off on select sex toys at our booth this weekend,” said The Dungeon Store’s founder/co-owner, Anne Bryne. “You’ll also find our selection of floggers, paddles, bondage gear, violet wands and specials we don’t typically carry on our web site like medical play toys.”
“If you like doing tarot readings for your cam shows and streams, you’ll love our tarot decks and oracle cards, like the Erotic Tarot and Naughty Oracle Deck,” Bryne added.
For more information about Exxxotica D.C., click here.
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LOS ANGELES — Alt Erotic director/CEO Ivan has announced the raffle prizes that will be offered during his company’s Bowl-O-Rama toy drive.
The prizes include $600 worth of tattoo work from Teitan Tattoo Shop of San Diego — by tattooists Patrick DeMarco, Kareem and Sweet T — $300 worth of studio time from Neg Media Pro and a full-figure 3D scan from Shrunk 3D.
“Each toy donated will get you a raffle ticket, and each raffle ticket without a toy will cost $10, which will be put towards more toy donations,” said a rep. “Please bring a toy or more donations to The Nerd Bar in Las Vegas, on Nov. 29., at 9 p.m. (PST). The competition will begin at 10 p.m. (PST). If you don’t have a team, no worries; you’ll be added to one.”
For more information or to RSVP, email ivan@altetotic.com.
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TORONTO — Marina Valmont will appear at Exxxotica D.C., Dec. 1-3.
During select hours on Friday-Sunday, “Naked News” host Marina Valmont will appear at the LoyalFans Spotlight booth, where she will greet fans, offer selfies and sell exclusive merchandise.
“It’s bittersweet,” said Valmont. “I’m excited to see my fans and make new ones, but I’m sad it’s the last show of 2023. Make sure to come if you can, and be ready to have fun.”
For more information about Exxxotica D.C., click here.
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HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — Lauren Phillips will appear at Exxxotica D.C., Dec. 1-3.
During select hours from Friday-Sunday, Phillips will appear at the LoyalFans Spotlight booth, where she will greet fans, offer selfies and sell exclusive merchandise including her Kiiroo.
“The New Jersey show was so much fun, and I’m excited to be back at the LoyalFans Spotlight booth for the D.C. show,” said Phillips. “It’s your last chance to meet me at an expo this year, so don’t miss your chance if you’re in the area or planning to be.”
For more information about Exxxotica D.C., click here.
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MIAMI — Kiki Klout will appear at Exxxotica D.C., Dec. 1-3.
During select hours from Friday-Sunday, Klout will appear at the LoyalFans Spotlight booth, where she will greet fans, offer selfies and sell exclusive merchandise.
“This is the last Exxxotica of the year and your last chance to meet me in 2023,” said Klout. “The D.C. show is always a good time and a great way to meet your favorite adult stars, like me.”
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