GFY is dead, is it the end of the sig whore?
 

as we have come to know it in exsistance?

Playboy has taken over adult.com so one has to wonder are there any changes in the works for GFY as it is ? or will it still be the same?

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Did GFY come as part of the sale?

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The sticky at GFY
The team at Adult.com and all of our properties including RealityCash, Webmaster Access, CinemaPlay Entertainment and GFY, is pleased to announce that we are now a subsidiary of Playboy Entertainment Group, Inc. Adult.com and Playboy.com have had a successful partnership since 2002 and this merger reemphasizes the value Playboy places on the webmaster community. Playboy is dedicated to giving webmasters even more good reasons to support us as we move forward. Not only will we continue to strive to run the best converting programs but we will also leverage our assets to create new products and to reward our loyal webmasters.

What has changed? Nothing, as far as webmasters are concerned. There are no changes in our programs, sites, or the Adult.com team. I have agreed to a long term contract to be President of the Adult.com business, and I'm pleased to announce that Eric Matis has been promoted to Vice President of Marketing. We are both very enthusiastic about the opportunity and the future. Other than some back-end accounting procedures, nothing will change with our business in the near term. In the longer term, you will see us introduce a broad array of exciting new products.

We look forward to your continued support as we begin an exciting new era at Adult.com!

-Lensman and The Adult.com Team

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Looks like it's included by the wording of the announcement.

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Very very interesting....

I would think GFY , as it is , wouldn't be part of the Playboy image.

Very very interesting...

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When I think Playboy..

I think classy women , places , cars , etc etc...

Not wiggas ,ex cons , and surfers living in their mums basements pissing with REAL players in this business by virtue of their post count.

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yes it is included

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i doubt it will be the end of anything, and I am pretty sure gfy will remain the same, it makes WAY too much money to fuck with it and piss off advertisers

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In the scheme of playboy , it prolly doesn't.

I'd estimate GFY grosses 2m pa.

I bet someone at Playboy is writing a report as I type...

Playboy's Revenue for the Qtr ended June was 82.9m

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Ever see a mule grining while hes eating briars?

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WHAT!!!!????

LOL

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I used to think that of playboy, now I'm thinking they're not the playboy I grew up with.

I'm a little saddened a by this.

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Therefore GFY would be 0.5% of its annual revenues...

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yeah, playboy now is not the playboy you all grew up with

check out playboy tv and see for yourself, hardcore sex just like everything else

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I'm only 2 years older than you dude :p


Plus the Playboy tv we get here in the UK isn't hardcore... it's not allowed to be.

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sorry, i should have said WE grew up with...i wasn't really pointing age fingers, i was mearly pointing out the fact that times have changed for playboy, and they are as much hardcore as well as the pretty softcore shit too

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Wonder what the sale price was?

Long term management contracts and shares? Cash?

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The question begs: are they keeping the fucktards and surfer posters that will come with GFY... I think they will - even though I hope they don't.

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here we go, from avn.com

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I can get newspaper articles that say Blair and Bush went after WMD, doesn't make it true. :1paranoid

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hahaha, jesus man, get out your tin foil hat...LOL

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Which one? I've got one shaped like a boat and one tha.... erm... no idea what you're talking about. ;)

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Interesting to be sure....

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Hmmmm Playboy as a PLC will make the acquisition costs public I guess.

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yep interesting to see how this all shakes out when the smoke clears .

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Interesting indeed ..

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GFY is dead?? LOL. No way.

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Congratulations to both Playboy and GFY ..

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True but it's 2mil of completely "free" income. They don't have to do any work towards it, devote any employees, etc. There would be no reason to take it down.

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Will be interesting to see what this is used for as far a launching platform goes ;)

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I agree totally.

There is no reason to take it down.

But there may be some reasons to change it.

For instance even in the last few days the roll of moderators has been more noticable.

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actually, that has been going on for a month or two...the mods have been there as a strong presence for quite some time now

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Odd ... immediately upon reading the post above, a phrase popped into my head and then left immediatley. I hate it when that happens.

All I can remember is two words ... "inmates" and "asylum".

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Well its just pushed up the value of Oprano :)

;-)))

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Excellent ;)

Interesting avn article too
http://www.avn.com/index.php?Primary...tent_ID=241070

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By how much?

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I predict that there will be hardly any changes at first.

Then there will be a few little changes here and there and the reason stated will be to make it fit in better with playboy's accounting, corporate structure, etc etc, any of a couple of million "suit" reasons.

And then all of a sudden there will be major changes and it will lose it's flavor as a webmaster board and become more a general purpose adult surfer board.

Playboy corporate will be throwing shitfits when they see what goes on over there. All they need to see is someone saying nigger to set off the corporate alarm bells.......

just imho of course.

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I found this as well ..

Penthouse raises $48 mn to battle Playboy

Penthouse Media Group Inc., publisher of the men’s magazine, raised $48 million in part to fund an adult entertainment broadcast network that would compete with Playboy Enterprises Inc.’s Spice and New Frontier Media Inc.’s Erotic.

Penthouse raised $15 million in preferred stock and $33 million in bonds, according to a private-placement notice filed September 6 with the US Securities and Exchange Commission. The company will use $26.2 million to repay debt, including money owed to Chief Executive Officer Mark Bell’s buyout firm in Boca Raton, Florida. It will devote $11.5 million to developing the new network.

New York based Penthouse Media has been changing the focus of its magazine from pornography to less-racy men’s lifestyle articles. Television is another leg of Bell’s strategy to turn around the closely held company, which his firm bought out of bankruptcy protection.

“The goal is to make high quality, very different types of movies from what people see now,’’ Bell said in an interview. “We are trying to differentiate ourselves from the Spice network at a competitive price.’’

The network would distribute programming to viewers via video-on-demand, pay-per-view and cable channels, said Bell, 38. The network is still in development and the company hasn’t decided how much it would charge for the services.

Swiss Hedge Fund

Absolute Return Europe Fund, a hedge fund with offices in Zurich, Switzerland, invested in some of the securities sold through the private placement, according to the SEC filing.

Florian Homm, a German money manager who has worked with Bell on other transactions, runs the hedge fund.

Bell’s buyout firm acquired Penthouse through a bankruptcy proceeding in October 2004 after buying up 89 per cent of the bonds issued by the publisher’s former owner, General Media Inc. Bell’s firm foreclosed on the company after failing to find a buyer for its General Media bonds.

Penthouse founder Bob Guccione first published the magazine in London in 1965 and in the US in 1969. The magazine’s circulation rose to 4.7 million as it published more-explicit photos than rival Playboy.

That strategy later backfired as some newsstands, on which Penthouse relied for the bulk of its sales, stopped carrying the magazine. At the same time, other men’s magazines began offering even more explicit material.

Beginning of End

“A proliferation of highly explicit magazines hit the

shelves and that was the beginning of the decline of Penthouse,’’ said Robert Routh, a media analyst at the brokerage Jefferies & Co. “It never recovered in terms of overall circulation.’’

Monthly circulation stands at 350,000, Bell said. Now that Penthouse is geared toward men’s lifestyle, which involves less nudity and more emphasis on editorial content, “subscriptions are finally going in the right direction,’’ he said. The magazine has recovered lost space on newsstands, Bell said.

Advertisers prefer men’s lifestyle to adult entertainment, said James Kobak, a magazine analyst who says he served as a consultant to both Guccione and Playboy founder Hugh Hefner.

Switching from one to the other isn’t easy, he said.

“The people who are going to buy it think of Penthouse as the way it has been for the last 40 years,’’ Kobak said. “It’s hard to tone it down.’’

http://www.financialexpress.com/late...tent_id=102298

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"Joe Lensman"? LOL!

Serge, did Joe have his name legally changed? :p

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I can not comment as long as he doesn't mind me putting links to WT at his board
:)