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GayWired, an entertainment news portal for the gay community, has been acquired by Unzipped Media. According to Unzipped Media, GayWired will continue to provide a daily roundup of breaking news, politics, entertainment, photos, and gossip from a progressive, youthful viewpoint that speaks to the LGBT community and pop culture fans alike.

“Gays and lesbians have always been savvy when it comes to popular culture, and GayWired is a long-standing destination for gay entertainment news on the Web,” said Dustin Tyner, the Group Publisher of Unzipped Media.

Touted as a sexy take on pop culture while providing content that’s 100% safe for work, GayWired is one of the oldest, most established gay portals on the Web.  The acquisition allows Unzipped Media to reach outside of the adult marketplace and become a diverse entertainment company.

Bonobo Cash just announced webmasters will now get credit for any sales made from their consumer newsletters.  I’ll stop short of saying no one else in the business is doing this, but I’ve never seen it.   Considering Bonobo Cash has, and continues to,  demonstrated a preference for skimming webmaster traffic, I’d prefer to see a technical explanation as to how sales are being tracked, before getting too excited about this announcement.

A quick look at their three sites reveals the following…

The Squirtz tour no longer has a link to their AWE Camera Boys white label site.  This makes the site tour leak free, provided their new claim about the mailing list can be confirmed.

The Jeremy Roddick tour no longer has the popunder, but the links page promoting other sponsor sites and blog are still there.

Video Boys continues to promote a DVD store with a prominent link in the top menu bar.

With the lack of credibility this sponsor has earned in my book, and only a partial effort made to clean up their site tours, I remain skeptical of their claim webmasters will get credit for sales made through the mailing lists.  People can say anything in this business and others are quick to accept it, but I prefer to rely on the time tested belief that actions speak louder than words.

Lately I’ve noticed a trend with sponsor text descriptions that really annoys me.  I’ve never been a fan of telling consumers what they want or how they will respond to it.  So when I see text informing surfers they are going cum while watching a particular video it makes me want to scream.  How can you possibly know what the reaction will be from everyone that watches your video?

This and the ever popular blab bla bal…JUST THE WAY YOU LIKE IT statements may work with the straight boys, but I’d like to think gay consumers are a bit more sophisticated.  I personally do my best to avoid insulting the intelligence of people I’m trying to sell something to.

Tell them how much YOU liked it, and that it’s just what YOU like to see in a gay porn flick, but don’t presume to know what hits each individual’s hot button.  You run the risk of loosing credibility by trying to inform people of something they know you can not possibly conclude about them.

Badpuppy, the pioneering on-line Gay mega site, with 14 years of service under their belt, has announced a special July promotion for affiliates of their PuppyCash webmaster program. Coined “Badpuppy’s Stimulus Payout”, three affiliates with the most improved sales for the month of July, in comparison to June, will share $2,500 in cash prizes.

1st Prize - $1,200
2nd Prize - $ 800
3rd Prize - $ 500

The idea behind this promotion is to level the playing field for smaller to mid-range affiliates, giving everyone an opportunity to compete and win. To insure there is an accurate comparison between the two months, this contest is only open to affiliates that were registered on or before June 1, 2009.

With the current state of our economy, BadPuppy hopes everyone will appreciate the opportunity to pick up a bonus payout.  The smaller to mid-sized affiliates who may not be promoting Badpuppy or the other sites at PuppyCash to their best ability have a greater opportunity to beat the big boys on this one, claims the sponsor.

I think a lot of sponsor programs assume if an affiliate does not perform well for them its the webmaster’s fault and not theirs.  While this is certainly true with some, it’s not the case for all.  Just because a webmaster has signed up with a program doesn’t mean he/she is, or ever was, actively promoting it.  Of the over 200 sponsor programs I’m affiliated with, over half get little or no attention.

Aside from the webmaster doesn’t know what he/she is doing, has no traffic, or your site does not perform well with his/her traffic, I can think of several reasons for poor performance.  They can all be placed under one heading - Why the webmaster is not actively promoting you.

• Leaky site tours
• No promotional materials other than banners, or no new materials after the initial site launch
• Undesirable promotional materials, such as over cropping, poor quality, lack of text descriptions, or nothing to excite the consumer
• Not on the webmaster’s radar - out of sight, out of mind
• Promotional materials that are too difficult to work with when so many others are not
• The sponsor’s payout structure is not competitive
• A perception that the sponsor can not be trusted
• The sponsor’s business practices/ethics are unacceptable
• Poor customer service resulting in the webmaster getting pissed off and dropping the sponsor

As for the webmasters that don’t have a lot of traffic.  What is the difference between 20 webmasters making one sale a month and one making 20, as long as they don’t ask for anything more than can be gotten from your competition?  How can you possibly know which ones will eventually be 20 sales a month webmasters?  Piss them off now and you will never know!

It’s a lot easier to hold onto existing webmasters than recruit new.  Some sponsors need to pay better attention to what their webmasters are saying, both directly and in the forums.  There are way too many other programs out there competing for my and every other webmaster’s traffic.  What are you doing to be one of them?

This is the best he can do???

I know I’m not the only affiliate webmaster that gets annoyed with sponsors that crop their photos, English Lads being one of the more notable in this practice.  Today I lost it with them when I pulled up a photo set titled Rocco & Adam’s Cock Fight, with a text description focusing mostly on the cock fight.  You would think there would be at least one photo of the guys smacking their dicks together, but NOT from English Lads!

I get way too much good promotional content from other sponsors, including those in direct competition with English Lads, to be wasting my time with this crap.  I’ve had it!  From now on, any photo set he puts out that has been cropped goes right in the trash.

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Just in case you missed it, the Gold Bars sponsor program launched their first gay Asian twink porn site in January of this year.  Asian Boys XXX features very cute Thai Twinks in mostly interracial action scenes with one white guy.

In February Gold Bars launched Boy Gloryhole, another Asian Twink site using the same Thai models with Black cocks on the other site of the wall.  Ladyboy Gloryhole followed a month later mimicking the second site, but with Thai Ladyboys instead of the models used in the first two sites.

All of the photo and HD video content appears to be high-quality.  Content is shot on location in Thailand, most likely Bangkok.  I am a little disappointed with their shooting in the same room on the same bed for all of the content in Asian Boys XXX.  The only saving grace is the boys they are working with are stunningly cute.

Gold Bars is a CCBill powered program that pays 50% on all sales and rebills.  They also pay 10% on webmaster referrals.  Promotional tools include free hosted photo and video galleries, random gallery generator, gallery of the day, picture of the day, hosted blogs and associated RSS feeds, hosted flash videos, downloadable zips, and banners.  Site tours are leak free.

The new IE 8 web browser is making its way onto computers now and it definitely looks at pages differently.  If you haven’t already done so, I strongly suggest testing all your sites with the new browser.