zBUCKz has announced they’ll be giving 20 affiliates a $50 bonus at the end of the month.  For a chance at the $1000 in bonus money, webmasters need to make 5 or more sales during the month of April.  At the end of the month, zBUCKz will draw 20 names from that group and award them an extra $50.

zBUCKz has 15 different web sites to promote, including the popular Japan Boyz, and SD Boy venues.

If you are looking for a new site to promote in the muscular or straight/bisexual niche, the all new Johnny Castle XXX may be just the ticket.  The new, all exclusive content, site includes photos, videos and live cam shows.  It appears that most, if not all, of the action scenes are Johnny with one or two girls or with another guy and a girl.  There are also some photo sets of other guys, presumably those that appear in the action scenes.  For more information about promoting Johnny Castle XXX visit Big Cash Society.

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The controversial Gay Gravy is out with yet another gay porn niche venue.  15 Tops 1 Bottom is about one straight guy getting fucked by at least 15 gay boys, who then shoot their cum all over him.  Promotional materials include photo and video galleries, banners and a morphing RSS feed.

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Badpuppy has announced they are offering all of their Dog Gone Video affiliates a 50% commission, for the life of the payout.  The new Spring Promotional offer runs from March 1st through May 31st, 2010.

Webmasters that refer new customers during the promotion period, who make at least 1 purchase, will be paid 50% on all purchases made by that customer during the promotion.   Webmasters will also receive 50% on all future purchases made by the newly referred customer.

Promotional materials include banners, custom theatres, TGP / MGP galleries, as well as daily self updating widgets with the newest titles, as they are made available on Dog Gone Video.

The affiliate cookie expiration has been extended from 30 days to 90 days, ensuring affiliates who take advantage of the Spring Promo will be rewarded the 50% commissions.

Panorama Pacific Ltd., umbrella company for the zBUCKz affiliate program, has just announced their acquisition of the InsanePay Affiliate program, it’s associated websites, content and marketing materials.

The purchase includes Boys From Prague, an already established European Twink site, as well as a Latin Twink venue which is still under development.  Company Director Daniel Kaufman (DannyZ) reports they currently have producers filming exclusive high definition content for Boys From Prague.

InsanePay will be operated as a separate company from zBUCKz and powered by CCBill, with payouts at 50% for all sales and rebills, or $30 PPS. In addition, zBUCKz has announced they are bringing on former InsanePay owner, Simon Fornara, to continue with the company as Affiliate Manager.

The program was originally powered by NATS, so any existing affiliates will need to sign up again at the new InsanePay web site, and change out their old NATS with the new CCBill links.  Webmasters that were promoting Boys From Prague under the old NATS program will get paid any commissions owed.

DannyZ promises a huge array of affiliate tools will soon be available for webmasters wishing to promote Boys From Prague.  Promotional materials will include embedded videos, RSS Feeds, hosted blogs, FHG’s, MGP’s and more.

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If you have been following the two popular gay adult industry webmaster forums, its old news BukBuddies, and sister site HornyHounDogs, has been sold to SOBV, aka Gay Gravy and Gay Pay.  At least that’s the conclusion everyone has drawn, based on a few key observations.

The sponsor program originally used by these two sites was, and still is, CCBill.  I say this, because the sites’ affiliate join pages continue to use CCBill.  However, the membership join pages are now using NATS.  While programs can migrate to NATS and set things up so their old CCBill links still work, there has apparently been no attempt to notify existing affiliates of any change.  Thus, old CCBill links may, or may not, be crediting the referring webmasters for any sales.  We simply don’t know, because there has been no official statement from either the original or alleged new owners.

Another indicator is the “presumed” recent addition of a nasty pop up promoting Gay Gravy sites.  However, the most convincing evidence SOBV has purchased these two sites comes from a report by a prominent and well respected webmaster.  The webmaster states that when he contacted BukBuddies about this they would only refer him to a SOBV support Email address.

Best I can determine, public discussion of this began on Friday the 22nd.  So it is reasonable to assume both SOBV and CCBill may not be aware of the negative dialog.  History has shown both companies monitor the forums and respond when they are the topic of discussion, particularly when the context is pessimistic.  I am optimistic SOBV, and perhaps CCBill, will make a public statement on Monday.  We will just have to wait and see.

Despite any future comment by the concerned parties, it is clear to everyone this presumed sale to SOBV has been very poorly managed.  Assuming they are the new owners, SOBV’s questionable handling of this transition only adds credibility to past accusations of unethical business practices. One would assume, after all of the negative press this company has endured, they’d pay more attention to public relations, but apparently that’s not yet sunk in.

Silence on the part of the original owners could be justified if there are contractual restrictions.  That said, they have a history of siphoning off webmaster traffic through numerous site tour leaks, so it seems fairly obvious where they stand.

Lucas Kazan has just informed me their affiliate tour pages no longer feature the newsletter e-mail collection, nor the Facebook/Twitter links. He also assured me they won’t find their way back into the tour.  In addition, they are testing to make sure the debit card join option is cascading to CCBill.  Once they are confident all is working as it should they’ll add some clarification language to the webmaster page and send out a notification to existing affiliates.

Badpuppy, the oldest gay porn site on the Internet, has at long last brought their Puppy Cash affiliate program out of the dark ages.  In my opinion, the improvements they’ve made place them among the top five best gay porn affiliate programs in the industry, and they are still making improvements.

Over the past year or so we saw Badpuppy moving their affiliate program in a more competitive direction with higher rev-share payouts, PPS, an ePassporte payment option,  RSS feed, and biweekly newsletter. All of this was a prelude to launching the completely redesigned and upgraded Puppy Cash.  Most notable is the promotional tools section that offers a dedicated page for each update.  On that page you can get most anything a webmaster would want in the way of promotional materials.

Badpuppy has also made improvements to their biweekly newsletter.  It is more condensed, less repetitive, and sample images for the new model pages are larger so we can quickly identify what niche they best fit in.  I won’t let the “dog” out of the bag, but Lisa tells me other improvements for both newsletter and web site are in the works.

Of course, the folks at Badpuppy will be quick to tell anyone these improvements have been driven by webmaster feedback.  Who says you can’t teach an old dog new tricks?