A while back I said that we in adult were missing the boat. A lot of insanely large (and usually stupid) Web 2.0 deals are happening and we aren’t getting any of the money that’s floating around.
Well, here’s one company that’s getting in on the action:
Quote: Zivity, a social network that aims to occupy the intersection of Playboy, MySpace and American Idol, has raised a $1 million first round financing from private investors. The San Francisco-based company, currently in private beta, seeks to match professional photographers and models willing to pose for risque pictures. While that’s nothing new, Zivity claims to be the only social net that lets its members distribute royalties. Zivity members decide what photos are published on the site by casting votes for models and photographers. Aside from determining who and what gets posted, the votes will also decide who gets paid and how much.
The site was co-founded by Scott Banister, who previously started IronPort Systems, an anti-spam company acquired earlier this year by Cisco for $830 million. The company also says that Banister helped create the bid-for-placement model used today by Google Adwords and co-inventor of the e-mail payment system used on eBay. Release First round funding is usually the smallest of the official rounds. If they got $1mil now they can expect around $7mil for the second round 6 months to a year later if they get some traction in the marketplace. Some companies can even go for a third if the idea really takes off. Usually, they end up selling to a larger company before the third round though.
I’m not saying that this idea is a great one and I’m not saying they will get the types of numbers I mentioned for a second round… I haven’t studied it enough to really give an opinion. But I do know that this is the first one to combine adult with Web 2.0 sensibilities that has gotten a seven figure first round and went public with that info.
Shooters, what do you think about this deal and the site?
Can you see any more companies on the horizon? Not necessarily like this business model but that can garner this kind of initial investment?
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I’ve been mostly lurking and rarely posting on this board for a very long time, decided to change this and make a bit longer post all kinds of serious input appreciated.
Short intro - I’ve been making designs (pay/tgp/free/avs) for a long time and I noticed that it’s more profitable to make sites for myself than for clients (a small ongoing % is more than one time fee). Now I have well over a hundred BYOT/paysites, premiumAVS (now AEN) video/dvd sites spread around several networks, with 2-3 thousands of (free)hosted galleries. Over 90% of earnings that these sites make are actually siteowners’ cut from other webmasters traffic. I am familiar with blogs/tgps, but I never had the time to actually sit down and make my own network and traffic source. In a few days I’m off for a vacation, and when I get back I’ll start this project.
To make use of all those hosted galls, I’m planning to make a fake-tgp network (TGP rotator is now unavailable but there’s a more powerful replacement script), I’ll be buying some feeder traffic, gall spots for galleries hosted on those domains, the part I’m unsure about are the domains themselves. Is it ok & advisable to use expired adult domains, or is there a possibility of buying some blocked/blacklisted domains bringing "bad karma"? instead of some free traffic is there another good list of expiring names except exxxpired.com ?
I also want to make a network of blogs (writers come pretty cheap nowadays), should I use a different set of domains, or can I simply put them in a /blog/ subdirectory? First I thought of making each blog a default index, and keeping the tgps in a /tgp/ folder, but that would drive dirty tgp traffic to blogs (404s and ppl who check out the index page). I’m not sure about mixing these two types of sites on same domains, and SE penalties). How would you organize this? Over time TGP network should be on autopilot so to say, and I’ll work on blog updates. Depending on my remaining free time and tgp growth, I might open submissions for other wms later on (sites will be relatively narrow-niched), if visits grow to a number worthy of submitting to..
I know this won’t grow and make 1000s over night and I don’t expect it to, I just want to make a goal and get it done instead of crazy jumping from project to project for various clients , and I want to make a better use of my sites because I believe there’s a good potential in them. It’s very late & I’m tired, sorry if I mentioned something twice and skipped something else anyway - I’d like to hear opinions - is the general idea ok, am I missing something, what should I stay away from etc. Hopefully this thread will become a nice tutorial for everyone else who’s out of focus.
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Fuck knows how this has happened as I have strongbox installed and its working fine. But 400 of my passwords were posted on a password site.
I have noticed Strongbox has been knocking out more members daily in the last month. So how do these thieves get access to the password files?
Checked server stats and only me thats been logged on.
Thoughts?
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http://www.blogsubmiter.com/
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for add you Blog directory
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Hi all,
I’ve finally decided to start re-building my blogs on a subdomain of my main domain and have installed WordPress…but of course, I’m having problems. Take a look at one of them:
http://torridtextcontent.com/hotxxx…ideos/index.php
I’m sure there are more problems but the main one is that when you click on a title to see the individual post it takes you to my index. Same thing if you choose a category. I’m sure this is rather simple but I can’t figure it out.
Suggestions? Help?
Thanks in advance!
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i just tried to log into my account and its telling me that my username doesnt exist, it seems that i may have been removed from the programme. anyone else have this problem?
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I just put this site up the other day. I’m nowhere even done with it yet just some toon graphics and FHG thumbs ( thumbs are big because U.S. surfer population is getting older ) and the weird thing was I was getting hits before the site was even indexed.
Then I submitted ONE gallery to two of my partner accounts and of course hits accelerated but when I went to check the stats I noticed two things, one was a link ‘from’ weather.com. Who the heck put up a link to my site www.assoflife.com on weather.com? How the fuck does that happen?
Second, a couple of hits from sites I’d rather not say as they could get their owners in trouble from their bosses! I think some people use their company’s sites as a via to surf other sites without the user getting in trouble. I dunno, just weird. I can’t wait to see what happens when I actually start submitting to SE’s and looking for trades.
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I have a bunch of paysites that are doing well, but I have been in that market for about 8 years now and noticed a big change (Bush, Tube sites, etc.). I don’t mind changing with the times but it would be nice to start looking into other avenues for online income.
So what’s some good mainstream (or adult) sources of online revenue other than paysites? Is there anyone making decent money with programs other than paysites?
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http://www.g4tv.com/AEE/splash.aspx
The G4 network cameras will be all over AEE in Vegas. Personally, I think that’s about the same as putting a Hustler magazine on the comic book shelf.
Opinions?
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