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@ Media Week: Playboy Enterprises’ Bet on Online & Wireless - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Mon 05 Dec 2005 11:13 AM PST

Playboy Enterprises ‘ CEO Christie Hefner is everywhere these days, it seems...she and her team gave a presentation today at the CSFB media week...and her team talked up online and…

Playboy CEO Says No Plans Playboy.com IPO - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 01 Dec 2005 12:13 PM PST

Playboy Enterprises CEO Christie Hefner said at the Reuters Media and Advertising Summit that there are no plans to Playboy.com IPO, despite speculation on Wall Street. Playboy previously planned to…

@ DEMXPO: Christie Hefner, CEO, Playboy Enterprises - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 30 Nov 2005 09:12 AM PST

Christie Hefner, CEO of Playboy Enterprises, is giving the second keynote at the DEMXPO conference.... -- Playboy Online is our fastest growing profit center and I believe it will be…

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Could Small Screens Spawn A Big Business For Adult Content? (reg. req.) - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Tue 15 Nov 2005 07:12 AM PST

Mobile phones and p*rn already bring in millions of dollars but, sparked by the new Video iPods, non-phone portables are taking center stage. The Washington Post compares the time it…

Playboy’s $12 Million Online Acquisition: ICS - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 09 Nov 2005 09:12 AM PST

I mentioned this acquisition yesterday...we didn’t have the name, but we have it now from the PR: it is an online distribution company called ICS Inc. This from the company…

Playboy Acquires Online Distribution Business For $12 Million; Buying Back Playboy.com - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Tue 08 Nov 2005 01:13 PM PST

Playboy Enterprises (PEI) filed its Q3 10-Q with SEC today and some very interesting details in it not disclosed earlier: it has bought an unnamed online distribution business for $12.0…

Playboy, Penthouse Look For Ways To Profit From iPod/Portable Video - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Thu 03 Nov 2005 11:12 AM PST

This one’s sure to wind up being filitered out if we’re not careful ... Faced with disappointing publishing returns, adult entertainment publishers Playboy and Penthouse are looking for ways to…

Earnings: Playboy Continues Turnaround; Online Sub Revs Up 15 Percent - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Thu 04 Aug 2005 06:10 AM PST

First look: Playboy Enterprises reported net income of $4.6 million for 2Q05 compared to the loss of $8.3 million in 2Q04; “significantly better” is the term used in the earnings…

Adult Content Industry Clamoring For Payment System - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 21 Jul 2005 10:08 AM PST

So says this story from Wired News...and some of them are hoping that Google might step up to the plate with its payment system. Paypal banned adult-related payments after being…

Adult Content Boosts Wireless Web Services - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Mon 25 Oct 2004 11:10 AM PST

Mobile phone users around the world will spend $1 billion a year on adult content sent to their handsets by 2008, according to Yankee Group...In the United States, consumers will…

Playboy To Combine Net, TV, DVD Units; 20 Jobs Cut - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Sun 17 Oct 2004 03:11 PM PST

Playboy Enterprises will consolidate its online, TV and DVD businesses into one unit, Playboy Entertainment Group, in a move that will eliminate 20 jobs. The reorganization will eliminate Playboy.com as…

Private Media Group Outsources Net Operations To Thailand - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 27 May 2004 09:06 PM PST

One of the world’s biggest adult media company, Private Media Group, which has been having troubles recently with its online operations, has outsourced its Net operations to Thailand… “The Company…

Top 4 Subscription Marketing Lessons from the Adult Content Industry for Mainstream Sites - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Tue 02 Mar 2004 10:04 AM PST

Mainstream content marketers could learn a lot from the adult world. After all, it’s a massive, intensely competitive, industry selling millions of subscriptions across every demographic over 18...some excruciating details…

Life, Liberty and Pursuit of Porn - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 19 Feb 2004 03:02 AM PST

As Hustler magazine nears its 30-year anniversary, Larry Flint reflects on how technology has changed the adult entertainment business..."Technology still has many surprises for us down the road, particularly in…

What Mainstreamers Can Learn From Copyright Usage in Adult Industry - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Sun 08 Feb 2004 12:03 PM PST

The adult industry has taken a rather hands-off approch to copyright, and companies are finding that free images can be a selling point, and not just a problem. For example,…

Adult Mobile Television Network? - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Sun 11 Jan 2004 02:01 PM PST

Well, seems like it...XTCMobile, an adult mobile software/content company, has tied up with Wicked Pictures to launch a slew of wireless streaming channels… Consumers can purchase the XTCMobile Application for…

The Future of Adult Internet - Business as Usual? - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Fri 09 Jan 2004 01:01 AM PST

“You have not seen a lot of consolidation in the adult market. What you have seen are a lot of people who just gave up and got out. However, a…

Class Action Equals Efficient Reach: Acacia - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Mon 22 Dec 2003 10:12 PM PST

Acacia Research says it was prompted to seek a class-action assignment for its litigation against two defendants in order to “more efficiently” reach all adult entertainment companies using their claimed…

Online Vies With Print For Playboy’s Centerfold - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Mon 08 Dec 2003 05:12 AM PST

When Hugh Hefner recently made public what had been obvious to most media observers for some time—that Playboy’s print edition is no longer the major source of the company’s income—the…

Adult Content to Hit $6.5B - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Tue 02 Dec 2003 02:12 AM PST

Two new studies from Juniper Research conclude that Gambling and Adult based content have the potential to generate revenues in excess of $6.5bn by 2006…

At 50, Playboy Uses Web to Stay Young - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Sun 30 Nov 2003 02:12 AM PST

The futile (in my view) attempts of Playboy Enterprise to re-invent itself for the digital age..."As technologies grow in terms of digital cable and satellite homes, as well as Internet…

Online Competition Hurts Adult Magazines - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Mon 10 Nov 2003 02:12 AM PST

After 35 years in the business of titillating and offending, pornographer Al Goldstein stopped publishing Screw magazine and filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, giving him a chance to cut costs,…

New Life for .XXX? - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Fri 07 Nov 2003 09:12 AM PST

Is the adult domain TLD ready for a comeback? “Although a .xxx extension has not been formally adopted, some companies have begun offering it on their own to interested parties.…

Playboy Online in Profits - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 05 Nov 2003 09:11 AM PST

Playboy Online has swung to profit of $500,000 in Q3, from a year earlier loss of $2.2 million, driven by a 40 percent increase in subscription and e-commerce revenue. Revenues…

Acacia A Thorn in Adult Industry’s Side, Or Wherever - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Tue 04 Nov 2003 06:11 AM PST

Acacia Research’s patents on streaming have been a huge issue in the online adult industry...trade pubs have written on it extensively, and this article explains the implications clearly. The company…