One of the most popular methods to pay the costs of running a Internet site is to put online ads in a eye-catching location on all the webpage. Web site managers can quite easily add an to their site and begin earning from every sale made from Internet users who actively click their advertizing, or even better, recieve revenue for every single click. It may however be problematic, if you are an adult Internet site owner you may find it hard to get an advertising company that takes adult sites.
This prissy dismissal of the adult industry, flies in the face of developments in traditional media in recent years. Fashionable entertainment shows are beginning to display more glimpses into the adult web industry. E! entertainments “The Girls Next Door” shows in detail the day to day life of Hugh Hefners current lady friends and “Family Business” is fly-on-the-wall documentary showing Adam Glasser who manages a successful adult concern. On the big screen Kevin Smiths very recent film “Zack and Miri…” showed some friends making an adult movie and pulled in $40m worldwide. Adult has gone mainstream but most web Internet adver companies have yet to embrace the change.
Some online ad and affiliate marketing firms are afraid that working with the adult industry will jeopardise their partnerships with non adult advertisers. For instance Ategrity, ShareaSale, Federated Media, DarkBlue and Premium Network state in their conditions that they will not work with Adult Advertisers. The fact is that a few mainstream advertisers have minor issues with the adult business, but the vast majority either are not concerned, or wouldn’t ask the question in the first place. Figures for adult industry income have been pegged as high as $13bn (AVN, 2005) and many a CEO would lose their job if shareholders knew just how much additional income was being left on the table.
The essential element to including Adult sites is good management. By checking every website that applies to your advertising network you are able to ensure that adult advertisements only ever shows on adult sites. If your ad network is not able to ascertain the quality and content of every single web site they work with then you should ask some more probing questions. Who is to say that they are not working with adult sites at the moment if they neglect to check them?