CYBERSPACE — Newly formed Carnal Media has announced the purchase of all-male affiliate network GunzBlazing, with a rebrand and other tweaks on the boards.
Carnal Media is a new venture from partners Legrand and Jay Wolf, the founders of MormonBoyz and its related sites, as well as MetaVentures, and partnerships with Charged Media/ChargedCash.
“We are proud to announce that we have just purchased the GunzBlazing Network. We will also produce several of our own websites and market them in the network going forward,” the Wolfs announced in a joint statement released to the GunzBlazing mailing list over the weekend.
“GunzBlazing is a historic network with more than two-dozen websites and a solid reputation of trust with affiliates that spans more than two decades. We took over the network a few weeks ago, moved the headquarters to the United States and laid out a plan for several exciting changes.”
The Carnal Network will shortly roll out “two separate content offerings,” the Wolfs note: GunzBlazing Amateur, “including several new amateur site offerings,” and Carnal Media Premium, “featuring mostly the new sites we will launch in the upcoming months.”
“We will have weekly affiliate newsletters for both our amateur and premium content offerings. These changes will greatly enhance the ability of our affiliates to promote the sites in our new network.”
The Wolfs stressed they are no longer affiliated with their former companies. “In light of the many questions we have received about our business, we need to clarify that we are no longer associated with MormonBoyz, the site that we created nine years ago while on our honeymoon, a site that we loved and cherished as it grew and won awards, but now does not exist in its original form, having been rebranded.”
“Additionally, we have left our original company, MetaVentures, and we are no longer the CEO and Manager, or affiliated, with Charged Media sites that we launched (such as) FamilyDick, and that are associated with ChargedCash. We are happy to hear your opinions about our former sites because we know they were beloved by many of you, but we have no control over the content or where the sites are going, and we would never dream of saying anything negative about our former business partners.”
The new venture includes colleagues from several former sites. “This is an exciting time for us. We brought over our best team members from MetaVentures, and are joined by members of the GunzBlazing team who are staying on. GunzBlazing is an impressive network of gay content. In the next few months we will provide better materials and improved support. We have brought with us the exclusive and famous talent that has made our content some of the most unique and recognizable in the industry. Our new network is gay-owned and gay-operated. We know gay content!”
The Wolfs are setting high expecations for the relaunch. “Given our track record, we expect to see traffic and conversions on existing network sites double in our first year,” they said. “GunzBlazing is one of the best affiliate networks on the web, and we are going to make it an even better opportunity for our affiliates. There will be tons of new content, and new opportunities to reach paying customers.”
“We hope you are as excited as we are about this new chapter in the gay side of the adult industry, and we look forward to working with all of you to make all of us a lot of money.”
Find Carnal Media’s new Twitter handle here.
