I have the honour to announce that Kitkast has officially branched off as its own independent site. This means the URL is now only Kitkast.com (not a category of MsKitka.com), so please update the link on your site(s) accordingly.
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You stay horny, San Fernando!
Sam Sugar is a genius. Why? Because unlike the general population, he understands the importance of networking on the web. He started SugarBank in May 2005 and soon moved on to start three other sites in just a few short months; Podnography, PSP Porn and SugarHive. Although these three sites have not been especially active in the past few months, Sugar has been able to generate buzz about his sites (and himself) and is now a well-known and trusted porn industry blogger (Internext panel member and Fleshbot guest writer are two sexy credentials he has recently added to his CV).
Yesterday Sugar announced the death of SugarHive, the sex wiki he created last year with the help of his readers. Though this is a sad end to something so creative, it is not something that will diminish Sugar’s reputation. In fact, these days there’s absolutely no way to slow down the marketing madman…
It seems the multi-sited mogul’s next move is to launch SexNotWork, the very first sex blog network. Although a clever pun, the site does not carry the Sugar name since he is working in conjunction with 9rules. Still, the site is well tied into the Sugar name through Sugar’s blog entries at SugarBank and there is no doubt that his broad audience will follow him into his new venture.
But… just when you thought that Sugar was too busy to work on anything else, he has pushed out a whole new series of Sugar-brand blogs:
Instead of writing for all of these sites, Sugar has other people doing it for him… and the more he gets the Sugar-brand out there, the more traffic and fame he will get.
In addition to all this, Sugar is also planning an AV version of the Sugasm where people submit short videos to him by Gmail and he compiles them into a sexy video-podcast. Sugar has asked me to submit something and although I have an ingenius idea, I’m not sure how much time I have to devote to it.
One thing is for sure, though, whether or not I’m involved I wish him the best of luck (and I urge him to send me an invite to the Playboy Mansion after he purchases it with the wads of cash he’ll be making when he succeeds in monetizing these great plans of his!).
Well, the auction for ad time on Rocketboom has officially closed at $40,000. This translates to CPMs of about $40, which is higher than many videobloggers were expecting but slightly lower than what Rocketboom themselves were expecting ($50-150).
In an interview on the Business Week podcast yesterday, Andrew Baron of Rocketboom said:
“From everything we’ve been hearing from all different kinds of authorities on the matter, it’s basically a high CPM. Much higher than a popular show on television because of all the additional benefits that the advertiser gets through having commercials online such as the site can be interactive, they continue to exist after they’ve been played, they’re archiveable and searchable…”
Baron gives a few other reasons for the high CPMs as well, stating that the audience is targeted, trackable and international.
Well, all I can say is congratulations to Rocketboom for the success of their auction!
Well, the fury over Muhammed cartoons is not the only thing causing protests in Indonesia this week… Many Indonesians are also protesting against a new local Indonesian version of Playboy that has yet to be published.
The irony of these demonstrations is that Indonesia is already flooded with pornography and it is easy to find much more hardcore material than Playboy being sold by street vendors. Additionally, why would anyone purchase an expensive magazine like Playboy when they can already get cheap material? The Jakarta Post published an article a couple of weeks ago highlighting this point:
This trashy soft-core porn won’t take the bulge out of your wallet, prices are as cheap as Rp 1,000 (around 10 US cents) a poster, while the DVDs, newspapers and magazines sell for a little more.
Besides cheap adult magazines, black market videos and DVDS, Indonesians may also access pornography via the Internet. As a way to prevent this from continuing, the government of Indonesia is planning to join the war on porn drafting an anti-pornography bill that would outlaw all pornography and more.
“The people behind this are using religious values to make their argument, especially Muslim groups. It is not stated in the bill, but the standard being used is the standard of Sharia law.
“They say people are not dressing in line with Indonesian culture. But the fashion in Indonesia now is to wear trousers that are tight around the hips, and even traditional clothes are often designed to show off a woman’s breasts,” she said. [More]
In addition to women’s rights, the bill also poses a threat to cinema. The draft bill proposes to make filming erotic dancing and kissing on the lips illegal. Well, defining ‘erotic dancing’ is something very difficult to do (since some people believe that Irish dancing is erotic) and if they outlaw kissing on the lips on film, then I guess old Hollywood classics like Casablanca will also be outlawed.
Although the bill is still just a draft, the parliament is almost certain that it will pass by the middle of this year. Taking this all into consideration, why would Playboy bother trying to launch a local version of their magazine in this heavy conservative-run Muslim state? Do they want to promote freedom and democracy or do they want media attention?
What do Penny Arcade, John Stewart and Ms. Kitka have in common? Why, this article, of course!
I was interviewed a couple of week’s ago by HoboTrashcan.com, a web zine that features editorials, interviews and celebrity gossip. The site is a collaboration of one man and his friends and I believe it has great potential for growth in the future. When talking with the Editor-in-Chief, Joel Murphy, he mentioned a few names of celebrities he will be interviewing soon… I’m not at liberty to say who they are, but I have no doubt that it will contribute to HoboTrashcan’s promising future.
Go check ‘em out.