YNOT – Raging Stallion Studios and Next Door Entertainment have cemented a partnership that will see the launch of an all-new online presence for RSS and related properties.
Raging Stallion is a division of Adult Entertainment Broadcast Networks. Prior to the new agreement with Next Door, RagingStallion.com and related online properties including Hairyboyz.com, XtraInches.com, HighOctane.com, SexGaymes.com, HardFriction.com, FetishForce.com and FistingCentral.com were part of AEBN’s GunzBlazing affiliate program, which Raging Stallion helped found. Following a comprehensive redesign, the eight gay websites will re-launch as part of Next Door’s award-winning Buddy Profits affiliate program.
According to a spokesperson, Fetish Force and Fisting Central will combine into one site at the FetishForce.com URL. RagingStallion.com will become a mega-site that serves as a gateway to content from the remaining six studios.
“Partnering with Next Door Entertainment is a decision that we are very excited about,” Raging Stallion President Chris Ward said. “They have successfully run our Falcon website for the past two years.”
FalconStudios.com was part of the Buddy Profits network when North Carolina-based AEBN acquired the then-35-year-old gay studio in December 2010. After the acquisition, AEBN merged Falcon with Raging Stallion, which AEBN had acquired — along with its sister company Pistol Media, parent to GunzBlazing — in February 2009. Raging Stallion, Falcon and their subdivisions form a gay production division based in San Francisco.
AEBN also owns the NakedSword family of gay companies, which it acquired in 2007. NakedSword.com, also part of the GunzBlazing affiliate program until recently, expected to launch a new self-managed affiliate program Oct. 1.
No one at any of the companies has commented about the separation of Raging Stallion and its brands from GunzBlazing, nor has anyone mentioned the future direction of GunzBlazing. The affiliate program has launched a bevy of heterosexual websites over the past two years.
Ward did, however, note that he and his associates have been extremely pleased with the way Gamma Entertainment’s family of companies — of which Next Door Entertainment and Buddy Profits are components — have handled Falcon’s online presence.
“We like working with Mark Bower and the Gamma team, and I am very eager to see what they can do for the Raging Stallion collection of sites,” Ward said. “We look forward to the launch of the new RagingStallion.com and FetishForce.com, and our ongoing partnership with Next Door Entertainment.”
According to Ward and Next Door President Stephan Sirard, webmasters who currently promote Raging Stallion’s online portfolio through GunzBlazing will be migrated to Buddy Profits later this year or early next year. Details will be communicated directly to affected affiliates.
“We are pleased to be part of this new partnership,” Sirard said. “Raging Stallion’s reputation is outstanding. They are known for their rugged men who project modern masculinity: muscles, hairy chests, tattoos and aggressive sexual appetites. We look forward to the launch of their new mega-sites and our continued partnership.”
