Who Is The Adult Entertainment Broadcasting Network (AEBN)?

AEBN pioneered Video-On-Demand and is one of the top practicioners of the business, if not number one.

They're located in Charlotte, North Carolina.

According to their website, they offer over 40,000 movies, which is probably more than anyone.

Their CEO is Scott Coffman. He's squeaky clean. No criminal record. No civil suits.

He left West Virginia and came to Charlotte to become a stockbroker. He hated stockbroking. He tried different things. He ran a bar. The bar falls apart. Somebody suggests that he run a sex magazine North Carolina. After all, the alternative weekly was filled with sex ads.

Scott starts up a sex weekly (circa 1995). He goes online (circa 1999) and abandons print. He starts up a DVD business then switches to VOD.

I think of AEBN as a solid, honest, reliable company. I don't hear searing gossip about them. They just go about their business. They're surprisingly open and friendly.

There might be something in the hospitable southern mentality (look at Adam & Eve in Raleigh, three hours drive away) which makes for more honest business than those companies located in Los Angeles, San Francisco or New York.

I hit up a source in the internet industry and he told me:

* Cynthia Kwasny...head of sales at AEBN. Left.

* AEBN has a reputation for poor payout levels for webmasters in AEBN's affiliate program.

* AEBN would be in top 25 players in the adult biz, but not in top ten. They own a Lear jet.

Because of digital technology, a porn company can now be located anywhere, even North Carolina. Soon, however, many of these porn jobs will shift overseas to second and third-world countries like India. The workers there are cheaper and it is not as though making and distributing and programming porn takes special skills.

One of the benefits of being headquartered outside of Los Angeles and New York is that it makes it harder for thugs like Edward Wedelstedt to muscle you.