AUSTIN, Texas – David Letterman he’s not, but YNOT Group LLC co-owner Jay Kopita does a pretty good job of getting industry bigwigs to spill their guts on camera. He demonstrates his rare skill in the brand-new video series “VIP Quickies” presented by Diva Traffic. “VIP Quickies”...

GLENDORA, Calif. – If you study crime statistics, or any other statistics that track trends, you’ll quickly notice something undeniable: All trend lines start at zero, not because the events or actions they track never happened before, but because zero represents when tracking...

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – Porn is in the eye of the beholder. In one former Google data engineer’s eye, explicit adult content online — or, rather, the number of searches for such content — is a bellwether for the state of the U.S. economy. According to Seth Stephens-Davidowitz,...

ST. CATHARINES, Canada – If you ever find yourself employing lies to keep from getting into trouble, here’s an important tip to bear in mind: Whatever bullshit you float as you’re trying to wriggle your way off the hook, make sure it’s plausible bullshit. Another, related piece...

Site speed influences every metric important to your business. Don’t believe it? Chew on these statistics for a moment: Almost half of all internet users (47 percent) expect a website to load within two seconds or less. A one-second improvement in page-load time can produce a...

LOS ANGELES – For years now, I’ve been searching for a truly compelling anti-pornography argument, something that will at last persuade me porn is as evil and morally ruinous as many of its harshest critics say. Along the way, I’ve tried reading scientific papers concerning the...

By Richard Buss Everybody makes mistakes. They can be embarrassing, but most of the time a simple “oops” isn’t fatal. Unless you’re an email marketer. Then, what may seem like tiny errors can give your business a big black eye — or worse, land you in trouble with the Federal...

DANVILLE, Ill. – As you’ve no doubt heard by now, infamous “copyright troll” attorney John Steele has been disbarred, an unsurprising development in the wake of his pleading guilty to fraud and money laundering charges in March. To those of us who have been unfortunate enough to...

CHICAGO – The 2017 Grabby Awards winners were feted Saturday night with an all-out celebration at the Metro Theater in the heart of the Windy Cindy. This year’s big winner among productions was NakedSword’s Scared Stiff with wins for Best Screenplay, Hottest Rimming and Best...

MAMAIA, Romania – Webmasters will be able to feed their need for speed in Romania June 6 when YNOT Grand Prix’s 2017 circuit explodes from the starting line at AWSummit. This is the first time the adrenaline-fueled event has served as the official opener for the Romanian show,...