By tracking the surge in live-streaming platforms and subscription-based performer channels over the past five years, we see how recent technological and regulatory shifts are reshaping an industry long relegated …
Could data protection be the single most important factor in restoring trust between consumers and the adult industry? Short answer: Yes — data protection can be the single most important …
Keeping brand safety concerns confined to fringe discussions is a myth we’re here to dispel. We once assumed that placing ads broadly online would naturally avoid problematic adjacency, trusting platforms’ …
Many of us remember the hush in the room when a familiar website refreshed and the homepage looked different — colors shifted, thumbnails rearranged, a tagline vanished — and we …
Growing regulatory fines in some jurisdictions have exceeded annual revenues for many small adult-content platforms, and we find ourselves at a pivotal crossroads. Compliance teams are scrambling to interpret patchwork …
From the back of a dimly lit studio, we watched a single notification ripple across a creator’s phone and knew the rules had changed. We had come to document a …
Recent shifts in banking regulations and major payment processors’ policies have intensified the challenges adult industry firms face. As banks tighten compliance and card networks update their merchant category rules, …
In recent months, regulatory headlines and advocacy campaigns have pushed workplace standards in the adult industry into the mainstream, forcing us to reassess long-standing assumptions about safety, consent, and labor …
Entering the marketplace of adult entertainment feels increasingly like stepping into a tech startup expo. We observe venture capitalists swapping traditional red-light district maps for pitch decks, and engineers trading …
How surprising that our hunger for connection has made privacy the industry’s newest nonnegotiable. We used to equate adult entertainment with anonymity — a faceless exchange where content and consumer …
