An Interview with Banana Guide

Posted By Benny Morecock on November 21, 2011

Last week I had the great opportunity to be interviewed by Banana Guide, the mega-popular gay website that posts porn, gay news, and website reviews.

The article goes into detail about what it’s like to own an adult website in such a competative industry, how we bought and relaunched the entire CockyBoys brand, and some plans for what we have coming up! If you want a little sneak peak at what it’s like at the CockyBoys HQ, check out the article:

Despite the challenges of making a buck in online porn, not the least of which is the ongoing battle with piracy, new gay porn producers pop up on the scene regularly, biting at the heals of established players in an already overcrowded game. Often as not, these new sites are lacking in one or more of the many necessities to make it past the first crucial year online.

So when something does stand out, it is all the more impressive. Cocky Boys is just such a site.

The site was launched in 2007 to much fanfare, celebrating your slightly rougher exhibitionist rather than your perfectly polished porn star or innocent boy next door. Cocky Boys was successful in finding studs like Jesse Santana, Sebastian Young, Wolf Hudson, Phenix Saint and Bobby Clark.

“I think what made it unique is that they weren’t your usual college dudes, but you could say the dudes with an ‘edge’ and an ‘attitude,’ explained Cocky Boys’ Creative Director, Benny Morecock. “[The site] embraced tattoos and anything that gave a guy a slightly different look from all the other guys on the Internet.”

But the company did have some issues and started to lag; updates to the site became irregular. At that point it was put up for sale…

[read more at bananaguide.com]