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Dreamstar Cash, 5th Best Place To Work in Spain for PYMES 2012

Today is an important day in the history of Dreamstar Cash, and a very proud moment for our company, our team and myself.  We found out that Dreamstar Cash ranks 5th on the Great Place to Work ® 2012 index for Spain for the category PYMES ( 20-49 employees).  This is a MASSIVE recognition, by a world wide respected organism like Great Place to Work ®, and something we have worked very hard on for many years! 

To create a great place to work, is something that needs to be part of the DNA of the company and overall culture that lives within the team.  The key to success of any business,  lies within the team itself, and is something that needs to be unlocked.  By creating the best possible environment and work place, you enable every person to grow and deliver their best work.  This is especially true for online businesses where the majority of the team is built of “knowledge workers“.  A great work environment, doesn’t mean you introduce a pingpong table and some other perks, and the job is done.  It goes a long way beyond that.  

 Over the years, as the company culture grew to what it is today, many tweaks were made along the way.  From introducing a flexible time table, offering off-site training and conference attendance to all team members, being transparent and sharing information with the entire team, celebrating important milestones, encouraging people to take ownership & responsibility, and the list goes on and on.  Keeping the organization hierarchy as flat as possible has also been key.  My door is always open for any 1-on-1 time with any team member.  There is no single recipe for success.

To be sharing the top 5 (out of more then 50 participating companies), in our first year participating in the Great Place to Work ® 2012 process is a huge honor!  It’s the ranking index that really matters.

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La Informacion
Yahoo News
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Changes in Porn Trends

2012 has been a very interesting year for Dreamstar Cash as far as the changes in content trends are concerned.  Here in the Content Department we  have experimented with different forms of clips on the site, as well as trying different thumbnails and displays to draw people into viewing various clips.  Obviously everyone has their own favourite niche where porn is concerned, however, its always nice to see changes and fluctuations in views and clicks and it never fails to interest us – its the best way for us to make sure our sites have something for everyone – and that’s exactly what keeps us motivated from day to day.  Keeping up with changing trends, interests and making sure when people visit our sites they can guarantee there will be something that will keep them coming back time and time again.

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Interview Ocupa´t

On the 8th of November, Dreamstar Cash made it!! The first time we are on TV with our office in Altea. “Canal 9″ TV channel came to interview us about the job openings we have in this moment. After the show we received around 15-20 CV´s and more are coming every day still.

Four people got interviewd, the first one was Steve Matthyssen, which was talking about the history of Dreamstar Cash, then next Melanie Turk talked about the culture of the company. Pablo Deeleman explained exactly what we are looking for and what we are offering to the candiates, and Javier Gomez explained what his daily work flow is and how the team works and tackles different problems.

 

The interview is in Spanish / Valenciano, but we hope you can understand it a little bit! 

 

 

 

Office Acitivity 2012

After some hard work we created our first video from the Office Activity. It is a great video to watch after looking at the pictures we made. Jeremy is also our private photographer at the office and he decided to do a video of all of us , he did an amazing job! 

The clip is nearly 12 min long, and  you can see that everyone is having a great time with some good drinks and a nice Paella on the sea. We rented two big sailing boats and went along the coasts from Altea to Calpe. Two jet skies were also available for the people which wanted to go crazy with the waves  :lol:

I hope you enjoy it as much as we do!

 

 

Web & Mobile UI/UX Senior Designer

About the Position

We are searching for a talented and experienced Web & mobile UX/UI Senior Designer to join a highly Agile/Scrum development team to work on our next generation applications.

This is a senior role for a multi-faceted professional and the successful candidate must demonstrate proven track record of conceptualizing, planning, designing and developing enterprise-grade web front-ends using technologies such as JavaScript, Ajax, HTML5, CSS3 and JSON, and an established Javascript framework such as EXTJS, Zepto, Backbone, Underscore or jQuery.

Reporting to the Project Owner, and based in the Alicante region, this is an outstanding opportunity for a strong Web & Mobile Designer-Developer to join a business-critical engineering team. The successful candidate will work very closely with the business, and use the latest technologies to create real business impact, whether creating brand new, industry-leading web & mobile applications. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to work on cutting edge online interfaces, mobile applications and complex user experiences in some of our sites ranked at the ALEXA Top 750, handling over 5 million unique visitors per day.

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Senior Web Application Developer

For our Alacant Area office, Spain – relocation or remote working opportunity!

About the Position

Dreamstar are looking for a number of highly experienced senior web application developers, and UI/UX designers, both to grow our existing team, and create new teams dedicated to new projects.

We currently serve over 400 million pages per month (and growing), and the role will be a great opportunity for you to learn how we did it using industry standard applications, programming languages, and development tools.

In addition to growing the number of users we have using our current sites, we also have a number of brand new projects in the pipeline which could provide the right person the opportunity to make their mark on the future strategy of the company.

Using well known applications, such as Jira (inc. Greenhopper, Confluence, Bamboo, etc.), we produce applications in PHP and JavaScript using technologies such as NodeJS (with Express & Moustache), MySQL, Solr, Nginx, Zend, Varnish, HA Proxy, Redis, and RabbitMQ. Continue Reading →

JT – aka The YouPorn Guy, is now the PornTube Guy

From gate crashing 4Tubes party to celebrate breaking into Alexa’s top 500 while on holiday in Alicante in August 2009 to joining the team at Dreamstar Cash in January 2012, it has been quite a journey for me. My name is JT and I was a founding member of YouPorn.com.

We launched YouPorn.com in late 2006 and sold to Manwin in May 2011. I served as Director of Global Business. Known to many as The YouPorn Guy, I was the face, eyes and ears of YouPorn and responsible for the monetization of the company’s user base that we grew to over 370 million monthly visitors. Continue Reading →

4Tube and its 3 year path to success

3 years ago a life changing event for both the company and myself took place.  After 4 months of development, building up a pornstar database, working with a lot of affiliate programs, we launched 4Tube.com.  Today, I can happily say, that this paved the road for the future of the company, and has opened doors to many great new opportunities.  Since then we have tripled our staff, re-located to our new office in July 2010, launched other successful projects like PornTube.com, and some exciting things in the works for 2012.  As part of this 3 year celebration I will document the history of 4Tube, and discuss some of the challenges we faced during this period.  Continue Reading →

SEO Analyst

We are looking to hire an in house SEO, you will be part of a fairly small but highly talented team of developers, SysAdmins and UI/UX specialist.

You will be required to work on all aspects of SEO within the organization, for example:

  • Monitoring existing search engine traffic (and we get a lot!) across all our projects and be on the constant lookout for opportunities to grow that traffic.
  • High level architectural decisions during the development of new projects, as well as proposing changes to our existing projects.
  • Outreach/link opportunities within both our existing industry connections and new contacts with the support of our own internal tools.
  • Evangelize SEO within the organization and educate others within the organization until SEO becomes a part of our DNA

4Tube celebrates its 3rd Anniversary

Just as the DSC Team loves working hard and pushing ourselves and the company to the next level, we also enjoy acknowledging our achievements, and having lots of fun and parties. What better way to combine our favourite past times, than celebrating 4Tube´s 3rd Anniversary. Melanie and I decided it would be a nice idea to surprise everyone, Steve included, with a delicious Banana Sponge-cake with Nutella filling, and our 4Tube logo on the front.  A big balloon banner was made with the logo on also, and the whole staff took some time out at lunch to enjoy the cake and a moment to reflect on all the hard work put into the project, and all the benefits gained from its success. Continue Reading →