??Adult? is More than Entertainment, It?s a Lifestyle?
SAN FRANCISCO, CA -- Gay video-on-demand leader NakedSword.com took home top honors at the Xbiz Awards on Thursday night, beating four rival sites for the ?Best VOD Site? title. It marks the first time a gay company has won the award; last year, NakedSword took home the GLBT Company of the Year. The awards were held at the Roosevelt Hotel in Hollywood, California at the conclusion of the Xbiz Hollywood Conference.
?This is a phenomenal honor,? said Tim Valenti, President and CEO of NakedSword.com. ?We worked hard this year to show the strength of our brand and our product to both the industry and consumers. We?ve worked with studios to produce original content, we?ve come up with innovative distribution systems and we?re constantly finding new ways to market our studios. This caps an amazing year.?
In the past few months, NakedSword.com has grabbed more than its share of headlines. First, in November of 2006 NakedSword signed Falcon Entertainment, one of the strongest brands and largest companies in the gay industry to an exclusive contract, sparking a series of content grabs with rivals. The company?s January merger with former rival AEBN helped make it the largest gay video-on-demand provider in the world. Later that month, negotiations at the Adult Entertainment Expo in Vegas helped secure COLT Studio Group as another exclusive, but Valenti promises more to come.
?We?re in a period of tremendous growth,? said Valenti. ?By the end of 2007, we believe that on a consumer level NakedSword will be synonymous with gay porn. We?re working with both major studios and smaller amateur companies to offer gay porn consumers an unbeatable slate of content. We hope to show consumers and non-industry media that adult entertainment has more than one dimension: ?adult? is more than just entertainment, it?s a lifestyle.?
NakedSword will be sponsoring and hosting many aspects of the GayVN Summit and GayVN Awards in their hometown of San Francisco later this month. The ten-year old company will open the weekend as host of an exhibition at the GLBT Historical Society and will conclude the festivities Saturday night with a massive afterparty following the awards ceremony.
NakedSword.com has been a top gay adult VOD provider since 1997. After a recent merger with AEBN in January 2007, it is now the largest gay VOD brand in the world reaching over 90 percent of the VOD market. NakedSword maintains exclusive partnerships with Falcon Entertainment and COLT Studio Group, as well as close relationships with top studios like Lucas Entertainment, Raging Stallion Studios, All Worlds Video, Dark Alley Media, Studio 2000, Pitbull Productions and over a hundred other studios. It pioneered online content delivery with the innovative Wet Palms gay porn soap opera (produced by Jet Set) and differentiates itself with original content like the award-winning Tim and Roma Show webcast and sites like GayPornBlog.com and TimandRomaBlog.com, as well as regular production of behind-the-scenes features for partner studios.
