LOS ANGELES (March 1, 2022) — ASACP, the Association of Sites Advocating Child Protection, is pleased to name noted industry leaders Cherry Pimps, YNOT Group, and LAL Expo Featured Sponsors for March 2022.

Among the industry’s most respected companies, ASACP’s Featured Sponsors show how corporate responsibility, ethical business operation, and taking several simple technical measures can protect minors and other users from accidental exposure to age-restricted materials.

According to ASACP Executive Director Tim Henning, the nonprofit association relies on the support of companies and other organizations that can assume a proactive leadership role in keeping children out of and away from adult-oriented materials online.  

“By supporting ASACP and its initiatives,” Henning said, “our family of sponsors enables us to raise awareness of the issues and provide solutions to the challenges of today’s emerging virtual worlds and the growing number of online platforms that draw the attention of digitally-connected youth.”

“Now is the time for everyone to join forces with industry leaders and stakeholders to support the association’s vital work,” Henning added. “Together, we can make a difference by protecting the innocence of youth.”

ASACP’s successes stem from its sponsors’ generous guidance and support, such as Cherry Pimps, YNOT Group, and LAL Expo. These successes include providing a range of free child protection resources, market-specific Best Practices, and a comprehensive Code of Ethics for app and age-restricted website publishers.

At the pinnacle of ASACP’s achievements are its RTA (Restricted To Adults) meta-labeling system that helps prevent children’s access to adult-oriented web pages; and its CP Reporting Tipline, which has processed more than 1 million reports.

As with all of ASACP’s services, these tools are free of charge, thanks to the ongoing generosity of the association’s family of sponsors — including March’s Featured Sponsors — Cherry Pimps, YNOT Group, and LAL Expo.

Cherry Pimps

Supporting the association as a Corporate Sponsor since 2013, Cherry Pimps helps to protect children and other viewers from accidental exposure to age-restricted materials by locking its content behind a paywall. This paywall requires viewers to purchase access to the company’s adult material, including its live cam shows — rather than offering the content as a free-for-all.

“We’re happy to continue our support of the ASACP as they work to help protect children online,” says Cherry Pimps Director Eric. “Their work is invaluable, and we must remember that their work is often thankless but essential to keeping child predators out of the online environment.”

“We thank the entire team at ASACP and look forward to many more years of cooperation,” he added. “I encourage all those who are not sponsors to step up to the plate and participate and give back to your community.”

YNOT Group, LLC

An ASACP In-Kind Media Sponsor since 2016, the YNOT brand was founded in 1996 to provide the earliest and most successful website developers with a central hub where they could network and exchange ideas and traffic. Today the company offers a variety of B2B services, resources, and events for adult businesses and specifically for the webcam industry and performers, anchored by its flagship websites YNOT.com and YNOTCam.com, providing industry news, interviews, marketing opportunities, and more.

Additional YNOT branded services include hosted email marketing and delivery platform YNOTMail.com and annual events, including YNOTAwards.com, which awards excellence in the B2B space, and the YNOT Cam Awards, which exclusively awards cam models and content creators. In addition, the YNOT Cammunity model summit held in Hollywood in October supports the webcam and clips sectors of the industry and the models who work in it. The virtual-only YNOTSummit.com industry tradeshow May 17-18, 2022, and the newly formed YNOT Reunion event in Phoenix April 8-10, 2022, rounds out the company’s offerings.

“YNOT continues to support and appreciate the efforts of ASACP to make the Internet a safer place,” says YNOT Group, LLC co-owner Jay Kopita. “Thanks for all you do.”

LALExpo

An Official ASACP Media Sponsor since 2017, the Latin America Adult Business Expo (LALExpo) targets the vibrant Latin American market, attracting a growing international and Latin-American audience from companies representing all aspects of the online and adult business world. Because LALExpo is a business-to-business, education, and trade event, the general public is not permitted to attend, but a diverse range of companies from the billing, mobile tech, ad network, affiliate sector, and more are in attendance. This executive event is capped by the LALExpo Awards, honoring excellence across dozens of industry categories and market segments. This year’s event is scheduled for June 12-15 in Cartagena, Colombia.

“Colombia has emerged as a vibrant center of the global camming community and broader digital media market. LALExpo’s goal has always been to promote excellence and responsibility among the companies in this space,” Anthony Rivera, an organizer of the event and co-founder of AJ Studios, said. “Our roots are in the camming community, and we serve this group made up of countless independent performers, providing an opportunity for all adults who wish to make a living and support their families and themselves through today’s technology.”

“Of course, with this opportunity comes a great responsibility to do the right thing and to help ensure that only those who are legally able to enjoy camming and other adult entrepreneurial activities are doing so,” Rivera added. “This is why we support ASACP and its mission to educate and professionalize the industry in the name of protecting children, as well as restrict attendance at our event to adult business professionals only.”

“ASACP thanks Cherry Pimps, YNOT Group, and LAL Expo for these companies’ outstanding commitment, generosity, and long-term leadership in supporting the association and its mission to protect children’s daily digital lives,” Henning said. “ASACP’s family of sponsors are united in pursuing this goal and represent the best that the industry has to offer. We encourage other digital media brands and their service providers to step up and join us in building a better future for all of us.”

To learn more about how your company can protect itself by protecting children, email [email protected].

About ASACP

Founded in 1996, ASACP is a nonprofit organization dedicated to online child protection. ASACP comprises two separate entities, the Association of Sites Advocating Child Protection and the ASACP Foundation. ASACP is a 501(c)(4) social welfare organization that manages a membership program that provides resources to companies to help them protect minors online. The ASACP Foundation is a 501(c)3 charitable organization responsible for the CP Reporting Tipline and RTA (Restricted To Adults) website labeling system.

ASACP has invested nearly 26 years in developing progressive programs to protect minors, and its relationship in assisting the digital media industry’s child protection efforts is unparalleled. For more information, visit ASACP.org.