| By George Ferencz
| Following the merger of three of the largest gay communities on the Internet, Badpuppy has joined in the mix agreeing to provide adult content for the Gay.com/Gay.net/on Q Network.
Badpuppy, already boasting more than 20,000 paid subscribers and 9.5 million hits per day, will open part of its paid site to members of the new Gay.com Network.
"(Members of the Gay.com Network) will be able to view more than 350,000 images plus get access to the live video feeds," says Badpuppy Founder and CEO Bill Pinyon.
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 Access to images of Badpuppy models, like Rick here, will be available to members of the Gay.com Network
Photography: Latent Images |
This partnership agreement adds Badpuppy to a vast gay Internet community likely to reach more than 5 million viewers each month. The Gay.com Network was formed late in 1998 when Gay.com, Gay.net and AOL's on Q merged. Gay.com brought with it 4 million visits a month plus the Internet's largest gay and lesbian chat network. Gay.net added it's 10,000 subscribers and vast content. onQ offered 300,000 visitors a month and the AOL brand name.
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With the merger, the Gay.com Network can now boast readership more than 50-times that of any popular gay glossy magazine, which is an eye-opening statistic for advertisers. The addition of Badpuppy content to the Gay.com Network will increase the Internet/print media disparity even further.
Badpuppy offers the Gay.com Network something not even the merged network could claim: an immense collection of gay adult content.
"In addition to our members--only chat rooms and message boards, and our extensive news and entertainment content, (Gay.com Network) members now have access to the best gay alternative community on the Web," said Online Partners CEO and Gay.net Founder Andrew Cramer.
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Since being created by former NASA employees in the early 1990s, Badpuppy has established itself as the premier gay adult site. It now offers subscribers more than 1 million images, original models, adult movie reviews, exhibitionists, stories, live video feeds, online movies, CU-See-Me and hundreds more erotic thrills . In addition, Badpuppy supports free services to the gay Internet community, including QPlanet, GayYellow Pages Online and the daily gay newsmagazine GayToday.
 Live video feeds also are part of the Badpuppy/Gay.com Network parternship agreement |
Even given Badpuppy's current success, Pinyon says the partnership with the Gay.com Network will be critical in the company's future development. "It is an important promotion that is good for our stability," he says. "It shows that large companies are willing to work with us because of what we've created here." |
Indeed, the partnership agreement is a validation of what Badpuppy has become since its launch. "There are a lot of other gay adult sites out there. For them to have chosen us to be their sole adult content provider was important."
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