IN THE SPOTLIGHT

YNOT: This week we have Ken Neb from Neb Content. Tell us a little about what you do over there!

Neb Content’s mission is to provide affordable, professional quality images of rarely seen amateur models to the adult webmaster industry.IN THE SPOTLIGHT

YNOT: This week we have Ken Neb from Neb Content. Tell us a little about what you do over there!

Neb Content’s mission is to provide affordable, professional quality images of rarely seen amateur models to the adult webmaster industry.

YNOT: Excellent. That’s quite a wide range of responsibilities you have! So what were you doing before Neb Content, and how did you get involved in the biz?

Ken: All of us at Neb Content have been fans of the adult industry long before we became part of the industry. We watched videos and surfed the Internet to view porn. While a well-produced video is exciting to watch, we always found the still images on the Net could be greatly improved. For example, when viewing a photo set from many of the “professional content producers,” it always left us feeling “Is that all?… I sure would like to see more!” When viewing a single girl photo set, many content providers will produce photos with the model doing some spread shots and maybe some vaginal insertions and call it a set. Sometimes there are only a few close-up shots of the “good stuff.” Neb Content felt that we can produce photo and video images that will be much more explicit, and therefore, fulfill the needs of the consumers. Specifically, in 90% of our photo sets (including single girl sets), we would include many close-up “money shots” in several angles, as well as anal probing shots. Most of our amateur models also agree to give us some DP (double penetration) poses. Neb Content discovered a specific demand and we set out to supply it.

YNOT: Well, you no doubt must have had fun researching that!

So with the tons of online content providers, is there anything else that makes you guys truly unique?

Ken: Yes, beside the explicit shots we deliver, there are several key factors that set us apart from our competitors. For one, we produce materials that we like to see ourselves. My personal taste in women is the attractive girl-next-door type as opposed to the porn-star glamour type. Therefore, we decided to enter the amateur market. We will only shoot models that are not recognizable as adult stars and that have the girl-next-door look. Many of our models are college students who have never posed nude before. We are frequently surprised by how comfortable the inexperienced models are in performing explicit poses in our shoots.

YNOT: Really? Well I suppose their discomfort would show through in the photography.

Ken: Another thing that sets Neb Content apart from others is that we produce 100% of our images and videos and we market our own products. Unlike many smaller content providers, we do not use any content brokers. I came from other industries where customer service is of paramount importance. We always felt we should be in direct contact with our customers. We like to hear the feedback directly and to do the best job possible in taking care of our customers. When our customers contact Neb Content, they are contacting me directly. I will personally solve the problem for the customer in a timely fashion.

YNOT: How much do you charge for your content sets?

Ken: Our price is extremely affordable. Our typical single girl sets are priced around $35-$45 which consists of 100-200 high-quality jpeg pictures. It is the “best buy” for professional shot images available anywhere.

We think that with Neb Content, webmasters will get the highest quality images, rarely seen models and explicit shots at an affordable price.

YNOT: Being a newer and smaller company, how do you go about promoting yourselves?

Ken: We believe once our customers view our content, they will be loyal customers for life. So, our challenge is to introduce ourselves to them. We decided, as an introduction of our product to the adult webmaster community, we would offer a 25% discount on all of our photo sets on top of our already very affordable price. This means that for $20, you can get complete high quality photosets with up to 200 high-resolution images.

YNOT: In addition to photo sets, you offer video as well, right?

Ken: In our next phase, we will bring online streaming video as well as lease galleries for the webmasters. We have shot over 100 models and over 75% of the sessions consisted of both photosets as well as videos. To date, we have over 40 hours of original high quality videos.

YNOT: Can you tell us about the equipment you use to produce your images?

Ken: It’s funny you ask about our equipment. I must first tell you about our introduction to the adult video business. We knew a few guys in the business and wanted to produce some videos. We were told we needed to hire a cameraman at between $600-$800 per day, plus a whole laundry list of expenses. I was surprised when I saw one of the items was for camera rental. I soon learned this is a leftover tradition of many Hollywood studios, where all equipment including lights, video and still cameras were all rented. Well, I came from the “old school.” I don’t like to lease anything if I can buy it and own it. That goes from cars to cameras.

Neb Content invested over $100,000 in professional equipment in order to bring webmasters the highest quality product possible. We shoot with the latest Canon digital single lens reflex cameras and professional grade L-lenses. We use 3-CCD chip digital video cameras from Sony for our video production. We also own a whole bank of lights, ranging from Fresnel hot lights to strobe lights with soft boxes. As a result of our investment in our equipment, we are producing extremely high-quality images.

YNOT: $100K?! I’ve got to see this! Mind if I invite myself over to your studio one of these days?

By the way, do you also offer any custom and exclusive shoots?

Ken: Yes, we can shoot both video and photo sets for a specific client’s needs also at an affordable price. We will usually piggyback the custom exclusive shoot right after our regular scheduled shoot to minimize the cost. This way, the models are already on the set, all equipment is in place and the cameraman and crew are there.

YNOT: How do you protect yourself legally?

Ken: Since one of our partners is a full-time attorney who has a successful practice in LA, we take all the necessary precautions to protect our company’s assets. All of our images are registered with the Copyright Office of the Library of Congress. We also have an impeccable record keeping practice. We keep our records not only in one place as the required “Custodian of Records” but duplicate sets of records are kept at a secondary location.

At times we have refused to shoot some models that show up on the set without all of the required documentation even though they claim to have been shot by some of our competitors without any problems.

YNOT: What would you say is the hardest part of the adult content business?

Ken: Recruiting amateur models and follow-ups definitely take lots of patience and much of my time. But, the hardest thing I have found is finding the suitable locations that will give our customers production value in our photo sessions.

As a content producer, we are facing the dilemma of keeping our production costs down in order to deliver the images to our customers (the adult webmasters) at an affordable price. As such, we cannot spend $800+ per day renting a location to shoot. Hotels and friend’s houses eventually all begin to look alike. We are actively seeking attractive interior locations such as bedrooms, bathrooms with a romantic tub, living rooms, dining rooms, executive offices, conference rooms, doctor’s offices, warehouses, restaurants, beach houses and mountain cabins. As well as exciting, unusual locations such as yachts, airplanes, RVs, houseboats, private backyards, pools, spas, patios, gyms, dance studios, private beaches, clubs, bars and schools. If any of your readers has a location in the Los Angeles area, please contact Ken Neb at ken@nebcontent.com.

YNOT: Dude, I may have to discuss some of those locations with you myself!

Where do you see yourself in a few years?

Ken: We hope our company will be well established in a few years. We would like to build a solid foundation by providing webmasters quality products at an affordable price. In addition, we would like webmasters to know Neb Content is here for the long run and we believe in taking care of our customers.

YNOT: What is your outlook on the future of the Adult Internet?

Ken: We believe the adult Internet will continue to grow. There are three factors that will contribute to the continued growth, including further advancement in technology (faster bandwidth and faster computers); more computer savvy consumers (with the aging of the baby boomers and a much higher percentage of the population being computer-literate); and more mainstream acceptance and respectability (already adult Internet businesses are being accepted by the mainstream population and many adult technology people came from the dot com industry).

YNOT: Got any newbie advice?

Ken: Work hard!!! Be possessed… eat, drink and sleep 24/7 about the business. Be a sponge and learn from everyone and anyone. Be an expert in your niche!

YNOT: Say, when you aren’t working so hard, what else do you like to do?

Ken: I enjoy skiing and skateboarding.

YNOT: Sounds great Ken, thanks for your time this week!

To learn more about Ken please visit his YNOT Chat profile, as well as his website at http://nebcontent.com .