Glossary · distribution
pay-site
Subscription website hosting adult content directly for paying subscribers — the historical pre-tube-era and pre-creator-platform-era model that still operates alongside the newer rails. Studio-owned pay-sites carry the studio's back-catalog and most-current releases; the model has consolidated substantially since the tube-site emergence but remains a meaningful revenue layer for established studios.
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- Adult industry trade press: AVN, XBIZ, and the trade-press ecosystem 1983-2026 — How AVN, XBIZ, and the broader adult-industry trade press built the institutional memory the field now depends on — and why the question of who counts as serious industry journalism in 2026 looks different from the question that produced AVN in 1983.
- The post-2020 payment-processor reordering of adult media — How a sequence of Mastercard, Visa, and platform-policy decisions in 2020–2021 restructured the compliance, distribution, and labour landscape of the legitimate adult industry — and what the new equilibrium looks like five years later.
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- AggregateRating
- Aylo
- C2PA
- compliance-as-a-service
- creator platform
- deepfake
- edge cache
- gonzo
- IndexNow
- KYC
- MindGeek
- NCII
- partner program
- pcombo
- performer-led brand
- RTA
- scenario-led production
- specialty merchant
- sitemap
- studio-tier
- §2257
- tube site
- XBIZ
- OnlyFans
- Fansly
- PPV
- partner-program traffic
- creator economy
- CFR Part 75
- primary producer
- secondary producer
- Free Speech Coalition
- age assurance
- AVN Awards
- XBIZ Awards
- ARCOM
- Online Safety Act
- JuSchG
- feature
- CPM
- CDN
- KJM
- studio network
- compliance documentation
- scene library
- distribution stack
- verified bot
- AVN
- AEE
- Bing Webmaster Tools
- GSC
- Schema.org
- JSON-LD
- rich snippet
- helpful content update
- AI Overview
- Hidden Gems
- mojeek
- BoodiGo
- Common Crawl
- Yandex Webmaster
- Pornhub
- XVideos
- WGCZ Holding
- YouPorn
- IndexNow protocol
- Naver
- Seznam
- AdsBot-Google