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Carole Wood
PR Manager, ImLive
As a representative of web giant ImLive, Carole Wood is a fixture at AVN events, including Internext
and the AVN Awards. She’s a whirlwind of activity who seems adept at seeing the big picture while not
letting details slip through the cracks. We wanted to find out more about her; turns out she’s been with
the company for much of its history.
“ImLive is very much a part of me,” Wood said. “I came into the company when it was a young tod-
dler, just before its second birthday. It hadn’t reached its 1 millionth member yet. Next month it will
be celebrating its 11th anniversary and offering services to 35 million members.”
Her stint with ImLive was also her introduction to the adult industry, where she ended up
“purely by chance” about a decade ago.
Wood has had “a variety of very interesting jobs,” she said. In addition to being a tour
guide in Spain and Portugal for four years, she also worked for a private detective company
and built eight English-language schools. “All very different, but all giving me the tools to
be who I am today in my professional life,” she added.
When we asked about her favorite part of the job, she demurred: “Wow, that’s a hard one.
Obviously I love the people, I love the fact that every day things are happening with a con-
stantly moving industry and company. Nothing ever gets boring.
“Although sometimes very tiring, I love the traveling and fast-moving pace of what’s expected of me,”
she added. “I guess some people would say I’m a workaholic, and others would say I’m mad, but I get a
kick out of juggling a hundred projects at once. That makes me the happiest.”
Said Shay, the vice president of sales, marketing and business development for Pussycash, ImLive and
Webcamwiz, “Carole has a few hats to wear being the PR manager and Imlive.com spokesperson, dealing
with PR relations across the world. She is also the person who built up and runs our porn-stars section.
“Carole is also my ‘go to person’ when talking about special tasks, projects and missions,” he summed
up. “Her knowledge of the adult industry and porn-star community helps us a lot as a company, and her
amazing work throughout the years is one of the reasons for us to be as dominant as we are, for over 11
years now.”
I guess some people would say
I’m a workaholic, and others
would say I’m mad,
but I get a kick out of
juggling a hundred
projects at once.
That makes me
the happiest
—Carole Wood, ImLive
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Paul Woodcrest
Videographer
“I’m not very interesting; I’m just a footnote,” claims ubiquitous
videographer Paul Woodcrest, but his efficient yet laid-back man-
ner on adult movie sets coupled with his good humor easily
put the lie to that statement.
Woodcrest was a young adult just out of high school
and studying photography at a community college in a
Los Angeles suburb when a member of his paintball
team told Woodcrest that he had a friend who was a
cameraman in the adult industry and that maybe he
could “stand in for him sometime.”
That “friend” turned out to be Brother Love, who was
working regularly for New Sensations at the time, and in
2005, just two months into his freshman year, he accepted
Woodcrest as his production assistant.
“I had already done some photography in high school as well, so
this was right up my alley,” Woodcrest stated. “I’d had courses in digi-
tal photography, black-and-white photography, color; I processed and
did everything back in those days, and all on film, by the way.”
Before long, Woodcrest was a full-time camera operator with New
Sensations, which is still his main employer, though he’s done shoots
for Wicked Pictures, Exquisite Films, DreamZone occasionally,
X3Sixty “and a few others out there I can’t think of.” He also ran
camera for all of the parodies Lee Roy Myers did for New Sensations,
as well as “pretty much everything with Mr. Eddie Powell, all his big
features.”
Woodcrest has also done a little directing, mostly of gonzo features,
and would like to try is hand at features.
One thing he doesn’t want to do, however, is act, even though he
essayed an amusing role in Myers’ 30 Rock: A XXX Parody: “No, no,
no. I’m a terrible actor, and that was the hardest thing for me to do.”
FEATURE
Jill Taylor
Vice President, MetArt
Before working in the adult industry, Jill Taylor was the converter supervisor
for a specialty textile, fabric and interior design company that held contracts
with some of the world’s largest hotel chains, designing and supplying the
materials for their individual hotels.
Ironically, creating bedspreads is the last career Jill had before getting into
the adult online business, where a bedspread might actually be considered a
supporting actor in many scenes.
“I had some friends who were already promoting adult sites quite success-
fully and my curiosity—along with my disdain for my mundane day job—
led me to inquire about how I could get in on all of it,” Taylor said. “I
began working during my free time as an affiliate in 2001, promoting dating
and cam sites. Then in 2004, I took my first full-time position in the indus-
try as the affiliate manager for AdultActionCash.
“They were a new program at the time, so my role was to mostly
recruit affiliates but it also extended to assisting them with everything
from creating accounts to optimizing traffic derivation and occasional
office morale therapy sessions.”
In the 12 years since 2001, Taylor has held a handful of roles in the
industry, including the aforementioned position for AdultActionCash
(which later became CamazonCash), head of sales and marketing
for CamZ, and work as the product manager for ClubJenna before
being promoted into the role of senior marketing manager for
Playboy
’s affiliate programs. Today she is entrenched as the vice
president of MetArt, overseeing a large part of the operations.
“In my current role as vice president of MetArt, I oversee mar-
keting strategy and implementation for the entire MetArt network
of sites and our partner sites as well as our affiliate program,
MetArtMoney.com. If I had to choose my top three critical focus items,
they would be trend and data analysis, strategic partnerships, and brand
recognition.”
When Taylor isn’t working she surprisingly claims to love airplane food,
reading and running—though not necessarily in that order.
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