Pictured above: Kristofer Weston and Tex Davidson, NastyDaddy.com
LOS ANGELES—Just 18 months ago, when Ducati Studios launched NastyDaddy.com, gay adult star Trenton Ducati was one proud papa. But today he’s even more satisfied with his digital offspring after redesigning the site from top to bottom, launching his first affiliate program, and signing a new licensing and distribution deal.
First, there’s the affiliate program, Powered by the NATS affiliate tracking software, DucatiCash.com is something brand-new for Ducati Studios.
“Ducati Cash is our affiliate program. We’ve never had that before,” Ducati said. “It’s a big step up for us. We can really be more proactive to help the members … and to showcase NastyDaddy. It’s such a great site, with great content, but it never really had the platform.”
Ducati is looking forward to being able to promote the site more effectively. “We have promo packs and content zips for the bloggers—it’s a lot more user friendly for them. It brings us up to date.”
Ducati continued, “We are excited. Both Anthony Duran and I have been working on this for a long time. We not only wanted to give NastyDaddy.com the platform it deserves, we also wanted to add a NATS program so affiliates can promote our site.”
In addition to overhauling the back end with NATS, Ducati Studios also did major work on the flagship site in DucatiCash.com. NastyDaddy.com, lives up to its tagline of “Where Daddies Breed” by featuring a mix of mature men, daddies, muscle bears and those who admire them.
In a wide array of videos and photo sets, NastyDaddy offers up a mix of hairy and smooth men, daddies and daddy lovers. Ducati mentioned some of the stars featured on the site, including Danny Gunn. Myles Landon, Teddy Bryce, Max Sargent and Armond Rizzo. “And I have a scene coming out with Jack Hunter,” he added. “It’s a really cool scene.”
The website was developed by new boutique web marketing and development solutions company No-Monkeys.com, based out of Montreal.
“Finally, we have been connected with the best dev team in the business,” Ducati said. “The team at No-Monkeys is brilliant.”
Explaining that the site is fully customized and completely responsive, Ducati said, “We rebuilt it basically from the ground up. It has all the bells and whistles and all the player options you could possibly want. We went more advanced on everything we could possibly do.”
Ducati had worked with the No-Monkeys team before, both as a content producer and an affiliate, and he expressed absolute delight in the work they did on NastyDaddy. “I know they’re super smart. They know all of the tricks.”
The website has been redesigned with new features, including a more user-friendly, responsive layout and navigation. And one of the neatest tricks is that NastyDaddy is now a two-in-one site where viewers can choose between joining the site or purchasing tokens to use for downloads.
“It’s five tokens to download a movie. You wouldn’t have to sign up for a subscription,” Ducati explained. “We’re trying to give people as many options at the ready. Some people don’t like the subscription model.”
The next step, Ducati said, is to add more sites to Ducati Cash. “We’re already in the process of migrating GentlemensCloset.com into Ducati Cash,” he said. “It will be put onto the same template and will be controlled by NATS user management.”
All NastyDaddy.com CCBill affiliates have been imported into the new DucatiCash.com program and will continue to be offered 50 percent for all memberships. Payments will be managed by CCBill for now.
Affiliates can download promo content and banners at DucatiCash.com or contact Anthony Duran at [email protected] for more information.
As if all that wasn’t enough, Ducati Studios also has a spanking-new arrangement with NMG Management that will include oversight of its broadcast licensing and DVD distribution. NMG handles a diverse portfolio of well-known studios, including SexArt, Porn Pros, Team Skeet, BAEB, Mormon Boyz and Man Royale.
“They’ve taken over distribution, which is good for us. It’s taken a lot of pressure off of us, and now we can focus on producing, organizing the models. … It’s a great collaboration.” Ducati expects to put out monthly DVDs from Nasty Daddy, Gentlemen’s Closet and also the original content he creates for TrentonDucati.com.
Ducati feels he’s moving to the next level “because they’re picky with who they represent. They don’t have a giant collection of gay content, so we feel like it’s special.”
Megan Stokes of NMG said all three brands will be released as different lines “since the content is so unique.” DVDs will be carried by Pulse Distribution.
The first release is titled Bound and Raw, named after a series on NastyDaddy.com. “It’s more bondage, BDSM, a little bit of a rougher line,” Ducati said. “According to NMG, people are really excited—people like TLA and the buyers. So that’s exciting.”
According to Stokes, the release date is March 27, and the featured performers are Ducati, Kyler Ash, Devin Dixon, Jack Hunter and Lance Hart.
‘We are very excited to be handling the Ducati Studios brands,” Stokes said. “In today’s market it’s important to not only have great content but to offer something unique. Ducati Studios offers all of this and more!”
Trenton Ducati and Kyler Ash
