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.

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.

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.

Mark Wolff has made big strides lately with his web sites and sponsor program.  He has condensed 4 muscle niche sites down to 2 (MarkWolff.com and Jock Butt), both with leak free tours.

His affiliate program web site, WolffPac Cash, has been updated with more video and photo promotional content, and he’ll be adding 4 new photo sets and 4 new video clips every month, including tube clips!  Text descriptions have also been added to accommodate bloggers’ needs.  More banners will be added next month, including the much needed 125×125 for blog themes.

Both tour and members area of MarkWolff.com have been completely re-designed.  The site now features 100 exclusive muscular and athletic models, updated weekly. The upgrade also includes flash streaming of over 40 hrs of exclusive video.

Jock Butt has a new tour, as well, and a re-designed members area using a Carma CMS is slated to go on-line this Summer.

This is the first time I’ve taken a close look at his operation in more than a year, and he’s definitely started tracking in the right direction.  While he’s still lacking in the webmaster tools department, if Mark continues in the direction I think he’s moving he’ll have a very competitive program by the time June rolls around again in 2010.

To better meet the needs of their affiliate webmasters, Uncut Dicks has announced the relaunch of its affiliate program, Uncut Cash.

Powered by CCBill, Uncut Cash offers a 50% commission on all sales and rebills, and absorbs all processing costs.  They have also introduced a 10% webmaster referral program, as well as a webmaster bonus program that pays higher percentages on a sliding scale.  Promotional tools include free hosted galleries, downloadable content and banners. RSS feeds and tube clips will be available shortly.

Uncut Dicks, the affiliate program’s flagship site and touted as a foreskin lover’s paradise, specializes in uncut men of all types from sexy Twinks to mature bears.  Members of Uncut Dicks also get access to I Crave Dick which features thousands of movie clips and photos of hundreds of different men. Both sites have leak free tours, update twice a week, and offer unrestricted video downloads.

For more information visit Uncut Cash.

Today zBUCKz announced the launch of Making Gay Porn, the newest addition to their rapidly expanding network of gay porn pay sites.

Making Gay Porn is the fifth pay site to be launched in collaboration with DVD studio Hot Desert Knights.  The site offers a true behind the scenes look at the gay porn industry, with Director commentaries, outtakes, bloopers, and tips for those wanting to produce their own amateur porn.

“Making Gay Porn is sure to excite any gay adult entertainment fan,” said DannyZ, zBUCKz CEO.  “Most fantasize about getting behind the camera and filming their favorite porn stars, or seeing what it would be like if in the action themselves.  Hot Desert Knights has done an amazing job of showing the back story behind filming gay porn, and consumers are going to love their unique documentary style videos.”

In addition to over 100 exclusive behind the scenes videos and dozens of photo sets, Making Gay Porn also features a blog with exclusive articles written by HDK Director Wade Lincoln.  Plus, members enjoy bonus access to the complete zBUCKz suite of Hot Desert Knights gay porn sites including HDK Fisting, HDK Raw, HDK Men and HDK Central.

Banners, free hosted galleries, tube videos and more are already available for affiliates wishing to promote the new site.  For more information, contact dannyz((AT))zbuckz.com

I guess, for sponsor programs, one answer to the economic downturn is to skim affiliate traffic and pocket all the profits.  From the very beginning Bonobo Cash sites have had traffic leaks, but it seems a little isn’t enough for them any more, as they keep adding new ways to profit from their affiliates without compensating them.

This week Bonobo Cash announced a new tour for their Squirtz pay site.  The most notable changes they focus on are; more extensive profiles for each model, video previews for recent updates, and an attractive layout with larger images. However, they’ve gloss right over a couple of other changes in the new tour.

Not only has the mailing list signup been made more prominent, Bonobo Cash also added a link to their AWE Camera Boys white label site.  Webmasters promoting Camera Boys from their individual sites retain repeat sales for 14 days, but if you have a while label site retention is for LIFE!  It must be nice having your affiliate base send free traffic you can convert and profit from indefinitely.

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After many years of publishing the well known Boy Fun Twink site, XXX Rewards has just completed beta testing of a second gay porn venue, FreshmanX.  The new site targets consumers interested in the “College Boy” niche, and claims to deliver 100 percent exclusive content.  FreshmanX is updated 6 times a week with new photos and videos.  The videos are DVD quality and available in both WMV and Flash.  Photos are offered in a variety of sizes to accommodate any connection speed, and are also bundled as a .zip file for easy download.  Photos and videos can be downloaded with no restrictions.

In related news, XXX Rewards has gotten an upgrade.  The most notable improvement is a totally revamped stats system which offers affiliates better reporting.  The sponsor stresses that existing links will continue to work for at least 5 years, and maybe more.  Webmasters are encouraged to change out their links, where convenient, to take advantage of the improved stats reporting.  The new XXX Rewards is at a different URL, but the old version is still on-line.  However, links and promotional materials for the new FreshmanX are only available at the new XXX Rewards site.

This week HunkMoney announced the launch of their latest edition in an ever growing network of gay porn pay sites.

The new Latino Cock Stars offers members exclusive Latin gay porn videos and photos as well as a large selection of non exclusive studio videos.  Members also get bonus access to a catalog of over 1600 DVD and HD videos and 50,000 photos, plus their 5 bonus reality sites.

HunkMoney states Latino Cock Stars is the first site they’ve released that runs on their new custom content management system. The new CMS offers members new features, like search, rate, make favorite, show most viewed, interactive polls, calendar of updates, and better organized layouts, to name a few.

Marketing materials will be on-line shortly, and their hosted blogs and RSS feeds will be featuring Latino Cock Stars to generate interest.

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