MiKandi users can now purchase apps with SegPay’s new and simple click feature for digital purchases. This allows consumers to purchase token packages and then apply those tokens towards the download of specific apps in the MiKandi store. Multiple apps can be purchased with a single SegPay checkout.

“Our partnership with MiKandi is SegPay’s first foray into a mobile application store front,” said Cathy Beardsley, president and CEO of SegPay. “There is tremendous potential for developers in the mobile space. By partnering with MiKandi, we position SegPay and our customers to benefit from new revenue streams.”

“Working with SegPay has been fantastic,” said Jesse Adams, CEO of MiKandi. “They’re responsive and they make it easier for our customers to pay for the apps and videos they want. We’re already seeing benefits from working with them.”

More than 100 million people in the United States use smart phones, according to the most recent comScore MobiLens report. The number of smart phone users has risen consistently over the past few years, as standard mobile phone users trade in their phones for devices with higher functionality. This provides web developers with new opportunities for growth. The SegPay — MiKandi partnership opens up these new venues to SegPay’s existing customers.

We’re excited to announce today that we have released a major update to the MiKandi Adult App Market. Now not only do you have access to the World’s hottest apps, but a premium adult video on demand experience.   Install today by going to www.mikandi.com on your mobile browser.  Stay tuned for more screenshots, how-to’s, tips and how you can earn free gold as we celebrate the launch!

Official Press Release

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

MiKandi unveils its Theater, bringing adult video to the mobile consumer

Seattle, WA – March 29, 2012 “Mobile video already accounts for half of mobile bandwidth without us. Imagine what will happen now that we’re live,” quipped MiKandi CEO Jesse Adams as he announced the launch of the MiKandi Theater. The MiKandi Theater, a one-stop video destination for mobile consumers, is available today to MiKandi’s 2 million adult consumers, with content from 12 studios. “Since day one, we’ve been committed to enabling adults to get what they want and when they want it. Our customers have been clamoring for an easy and intuitive way to access their favorite adult videos and we’re excited to answer their requests with the MiKandi Theater. This is the climax of phase one in our company’s history.”

Today’s launch marks the culmination of months of deep collaboration between the MiKandi team and its launch partners. Studios like Elegant Angel, Wasteland, PinkTV, Burning Angel, Gamma Entertainment, and others have created channels in the MiKandi Theater and filled them with hundreds of videos. The success of MiKandi’s virtual currency with consumers has given the adult studios the confidence that consumers will purchase and subscribe to their content on a regular basis. MiKandi’s 100% customer satisfaction rate ensures that the chargebacks and failed credit card transactions that normally plague the adult industry are removed from the equation. With the billing and distribution covered, studios are free to focus on what they do best – creating incredible content and lasting brands.

The $7.99 monthly channel subscription price is reminiscent of other innovators in the video content space. “When MiKandi approached us to discuss the Theater and showed us the purchasing activity for apps, we couldn’t have said yes fast enough. It’s not every day you get to be involved in the launch of the Netflix for porn,” said Colin Rowntree, founder of Wasteland.com.

MiKandi’s customer focus has served it well over its first few years of operation, ensuring that customers feel they’re being treated like adults. Whether it’s responding to every customer who contacts the company or having a generous policy towards refunds and credits, the MiKandi team has been laser-focused on delivering the kind of experience that just isn’t available for most consumers of adult content. “We think that the lack of trust in our industry is the single biggest obstacle to success, so we’ve built ourselves around delighting customers first and grown from there,” said Adams.

The MiKandi Theater is available today to everyone using the free MiKandi app, available at http://m.mikandi.com The MiKandi team is already working with other studios to expand the content offerings. Inquiries from adult studios can be directed to studiopartner@mikandi.com

About MiKandi, LLC: MiKandi (pronounced “my candy”) is the leading app market for adults. The company’s open view on censorship has resonated with thousands of app developers and continues to gain support from the Android user community. Android users can go to http://m.mikandi.com on their mobile browsers to download the store. Developers can register at http://developer.mikandi.com.

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This should bring out your happy.

Follow Android Pit on Twitter @AndroidPitcom

And follow us too! @MiKandiStore

Folks who want porn can buy an Android phone and download MiKandi, the porn store on Android.

Google Play: “We love boobies…. SYKE!”

Since the transition from Android Market to Google Play, Google has beefed up its policy around adult material, and has begun to drive developers of adult apps out of their market. Last week, the market banned the app Reddit is Fun for violating its content policy. Read more on Pulp Tech at ZDNet. We’ve reached out to the developer to ask him to share the app in MiKandi, where we will hug it and pet it and squeeze it and name it George, but we haven’t heard back. Andrew Shu, if you’re reading this- we want you!

While we’re sad to see Google Play follow Apple’s path, we understand why a mainstream market would want to keep adult material out. You don’t want a market that appeals to kids and adults. At least Google gives adults the option to get the apps they want by downloading them from third party sources (e.g. MiKandi, the world’s first and largest adult app market.)

[VIDEO] See our response video to Nixie Pixel – Do iPhone users get the shaft?

Focus is good

Joining the world’s first and largest adult app market has its perks. Developers in MiKandi report higher relevant downloads and installs in our market because our audience is specifically looking for adult apps.

In the past week, we’ve received many requests from developer driven out of Google Play to join our market. And we take them with open arms. It may be the other markets’ “moral responsibility” to keep porn off phones, but at MiKandi, it’s our responsibility to treat adults like adults.

If you’re a developer that has been affected by Google’s decision to purge Google Play of adult material, contact us today at developer@mikandi.com.

This week, Nixie Pixel asks, “Do Android users get all the smutty apps while iPhone users get the shaft?”

Uh, YEAH!
… and not in the good way either, amiriteladies?

Jen at MiKandi gives her two cents.

If you like the video, please thumbs up. And let us know if you want to see more videos.

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Developers, register your free MiKandi account at developer.mikandi.com

Rough night

Are you God’s gift to women? Here’s an app that can put you to the test! Released today in the MiKandi App Market is Iclit, from the developers Pampuni.

Find out who amongst your friends is the best at satisfying a woman.

Features:
- A fully featured game
- A pocket 3D vagina to fool around with
- Turning-on sound effects
- Vibrating on orgasm
- Score chart-indicating the most skilled player

You can get the app in the MiKandi App Market for 198 Gold.

More NSFW screenshots after the jump!

Despite spending NO money on marketing and having NO distribution through the other Android App Markets (hey Amazon, we’d be happy to offer your app store to our customers if you offer ours to your customers ), we are seeing new users each and every day. Well over a million folks have used our app market for adults and while that might pale in comparison to other popular stores, we’re pretty excited about the fact that over 200,000 people use us each month and download an average of over 5 apps per person. We’re just getting started, but it’s a pretty great start.

We’ve learned a lot in the past year and we’re continuing to improve our value to our customers on a daily basis, due in large part to our large and active developer community. Without the thousands of developers publishing their hot apps every month, we wouldn’t be what we are and we’re very grateful to them all for their support and dedication. We are happy to pay an ever-increasing number of developers each month – they are proving that consumers pay for adult entertainment willingly, when the offer and delivery mechanisms are right.

As we start developing against our roadmap for 2012, we thought we’d share some of our most interesting data more broadly. As we said, we think it paints a bright future for 3rd party app markets in the Android universe. There’s a lot of potential out there for focused teams!

One funny coincidence: DC ranked highest in the entire year for greatest number of searches and requests for “deep throat” related apps.   Perhaps they are still looking for the true secret informant in the watergate scandal?

Sadly, that is no longer true.

Dan Rowinski, writing last October, says that Porn is no longer a leading indicator of web innovation and unfortunately, we have to agree with him. After attending Xbiz, Internext and AVN this year, we’ve had to shake our heads a bit because so much of our industry appears to be looking back rather than seeing the bright consumer future.

At MiKandi, we’re fortunate not to be plagued by dogma.  We’re embracing the new consumer world and seeing fantastic results because of it. Hundreds of thousands of consumers every month use our App Market for Adults despite the fact that we’ve spent ZERO on marketing.

These adults are downloading millions of amazing apps, viewing pictures and videos and interacting with one another in meaningful ways, all on their mobile devices. We’re learning more every day about the future of content and consumers.

There are some basic principles that lead to success

The adult industry deserves to thrive and grow. We have no illusions that this is something we can do all alone. We’d like to help lead the Adult industry back to its rightful place as the aggressive, innovative leader of technology development for consumers. Here are the things we find to be most important in designing content delivery for today’s consumer:

1. Content needs to be mobile, because consumers are.
2. Connectivity is the rule, not the exception.
3. Being trustworthy and providing great service matters more than making a quick buck.
4. Personalization is key.

Let’s dig into each of those principles a bit.

#1: Content needs to be mobile, because consumers are.

Consumers are consuming content on mobile devices in staggering numbers. Whether it’s finding out that the average mobile consumer spends 94 minutes a day in their apps or that mobile video already comprises 50% of operators’ data bandwidth, it’s obvious that consumers are spending their time with the brands and content they love on their mobile devices.

We have heard far too many studios discounting the mobile viewing experience, essentially saying, “Who would want to watch porn on such a small screen?”. We can tell you definitively that the answer is: “A lot of people, with more EVERY day”. People don’t care nearly so much about the size of the screen as the availability of great content and the ever present nature of their mobile device.

It’s worth noting that there was a time when people thought that porn on a PC or laptop was a silly idea in comparison to having it on your TV. Those people were wrong then too.

#2: Connectivity is the rule, not the exception.

Consumers expect to be able to connect to the network wherever they are, whenever they’d like to. Wireless providers continue to expand their offerings and to increase the speeds they’re delivering to consumers, leading us to an environment where everyone is constantly online.

Designing services for this highly connected world means that media can be more interactive, delivering experiences that are far more immersive for the consumer. Whether it’s the emergence of live chat services or the explosive growth in mobile dating, when people are always connected they expect more real-time services and we all need to embrace this phenomenon.

#3: Being trustworthy and providing great service matters more than making a quick buck.

Today’s digital consumer expects to be able to vent about problems, tell their friends about services that are shady and to inspire grassroots boycotts of companies that are bad actors. Having a short-term view of your customer relationships in order to boost your bottom line might have worked when consumers weren’t as easily connected to one another and the average person had no public recourse, but it was still wrong.

These days, acting in this way is a recipe for disaster. Unfortunately, we see a too many companies in the industry failing to recognize that they need to reform their business practices and treat consumers with RESPECT. Tricking someone into buying a subscription might make you more money but it’s not going to win a loyal customer who sings your praises.

At MiKandi, we’ve embraced this connected environment and place a huge emphasis on our customer service by:

• Making it extraordinarily easy to contact us and responding to EVERY customer request (yes, every one)
• Refunding any consumer who has an issue with an app or our service. We’d rather be like Nordstrom than the 99 Cent store
• Creating a virtual currency system, allowing us to handle refunds elegantly for the publisher AND the consumer

The results have been unambiguous: our chargeback rates are the absolute lowest in the industry (just ask our billing providers) and 1 in 5 purchasers purchases again with us, unprompted. That’s what happens when you develop a relationship with your customers predicated on mutual trust and respect and deliver excellent service.

#4: Personalization is key

A lot of companies are requiring usernames and IDs in order to know who a customer is, primarily for their own benefit. This is step one in developing a customer relationship, but it’s not the most important piece of this relationship development. When you ask a person to tell you about themselves, today they expect that they’re going to get a better service as a result.

From providing content recommendations to understanding their usage activity and delivering personalized messages, there’s a lot today’s content provider can do to personalize experiences. People these days have no time for generic results and services. Personalization is about delivering an awesome experience.

Onward to customer innovation

So, those are the principles we’re finding fundamental to innovating in this dynamic consumer world. We’re fortunate to be building something that consumers absolutely love and want to use every day. We hope that we can work with a lot of other companies in the adult industry in order to deliver amazing customer experiences on a daily basis.

Which brings us to the final point we’d like to make – it’s something we talked a bit about in Vegas. In the media business, the classic debate is whether Content or Distribution is the King.

The reality is this: Customer Experience is the King.

Nothing matters more than delivering extraordinary experiences.

At MiKandi, we’re proud to be part of an industry that is focused on meeting the desires of consumers, regardless of public perception. In many ways, our industry is the ultimate democratic endeavor: satisfying the needs of people, not public personas.

We hope to be a part of the industry’s future and we’re intensely focused on what people want. Our principles are derived from what people are doing, not what we want them to do. We hope that our peers will join us in innovating once again, delivering stellar content, connections and experiences that lead us into the next wave of technology breakthroughs.

Join us in a bright mobile future

The term “Skin Flute” is a pop culture reference most people have heard at one point or another in their lives. Now, with the release of the Skin Flute Android App, which emulates playing an actual skin flute, mobile users have a chance to test their skills.

The Skin Flute app, developed by Media Outbreak, allows the user to choose a skin and then blow into the microphone while simultaneously using their fingers to touch, slide and play notes on the screen . The creator of this app stated, “We wanted to bring the Skin Flute to the mobile market because we knew it would be a fun gag app for people all over the world. We envisioned a fun party game and we hope people get a good laugh when showing it off. to their friends.” The Skin Flute app has been published on the Android Market for $1.49 & is also available for purchase through the MiKandi Adult App Market.

The Skin Flute is the first app release for local Indianapolis based company Media Outbreak (http://www.mediaoutbreak.com). Future updates and releases are already planned for the Skin Flute which will provide further functionality not included in the initial release. To stay up to date about the Skin Flute, or to read further documentation, visit the Skin Flute App website @ http://www.theskinflute.com.