Posts Tagged ‘Porn’

Yesterday afternoon the Sesame Street YouTube channel was taken offline following a lewd hacker attack in which many of the channel’s videos were taken down and replaced with pornographic video clips.

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The weekend has almost arrived, and we’re here to usher it in with our Friday Morning Laughs—a collection of fun videos to put a smile on your face and a little spring in your step. This week we’ve got a porn star-studded PSA, a kitten with an addiction, a surprise musical, a Sean Connery impersonator and Angry Birds.

Sometimes to make a great promotional campaign you have to get creative and take a route that seems a little risqué and “out there” to reach your target audience. Polish marketing agency Change Integrated has done just that with a new interactive campaign designed to spread breast cancer awareness on none other than one of [...]

Techcrunch covered an interesting story today about a newly launched iTunes for porn. I typically don’t cover porn but this story was too good to pass up and given that tomorrow is Yom Kippur I figured I could be forgiven for this article . Back in June of last year, I wrote about it being tough times for pornographers following a New York Times article which highlighted the difficulties facing the pornography industry. The porn industry isn’t the only one facing tough times though.

Music companies have been facing the same piracy issues that the porn industry faces. Currently there is more than a handful of companies trying out the ad supported model. Many thought that selling music online wouldn’t work with the easy access to free music but when iTunes recently surpassed WalMart in music sales, many executives realized this model was nothing to sneeze at.

Now it looks like the porn industry, an industry known for staying on the cutting edge of technology, is now following suit. Naughty America has launched Naughty America Direct (this is not safe for work by any means). If you want to try it out you can use the beta code “techcrunch” to signup. While we will ultimately have no way of knowing whether or not this model is successful, my guess is that it will be.

As far as I know there is no pay per download iTunes-like service for pornography. Then again I haven’t spent much time scouring the web to look for pay-per-download porn. My guess is that some smart company will follow-up with a free version of this and then the porn industry is dead in the water. For the time being though, this makes a lot of sense and given that it has worked pretty well for the music industry, I’d imagine this can be transferred to other forms of digital content including pornography.