And X On Demand Actually Wants Gay Webmaster Traffic... WTF?!?

[GL_Marc]

As a former employee of XonDemand, I can honestly say this doesn't surprise me. They had two openly gay employees while I was there. Myself and one other man, both who were let go as the company continued to downsize at different times. Now it's been 2-1/2 years since I worked there so they COULD have hired a gay employee since then, but my guess is they have not. They never really understood the gay market and how it is not the same as the straight industry and probably should have just stuck with straight porn. But the gay videos which were only about 20% of the site, made over 40% of the revenue (again at least when I was there). The owner and the board (and yes there is a mysterious board of owners who you will never find out anything more about) are all pretty much a bunch of macho, butch men who would not be caught dead looking at gay porn. Yet they sell it on their site because they know it makes them money.

Now I never actually met Rob, so I won't say anything about him personally, he probably did only post that as a joke, but it was insensitive and not very smart to do at all. I am glad to see so many people on this board not putting up with that sort of ignorance (no matter how it was intended) and taking their business elsewhere. There are plenty of other VOD companies that will not insult a portion of their business just to get a laugh on a message board.

I've really bit my tongue over the years since XOD laid me off with no warning, via e-mail, the week before Christmas... But I saw this thread and had to give my opinion too.

[derekt]

Now Xondemand is bribing. They seem almost too desperate now. This email came in a few minutes ago. Below is the screen cap of the email. It was a form letter! I wonder how many others have received the same.

We left them 3 years ago when we went exclusive with AEBN. After AEBN we went back with all of the providers. After only making $10 a month on 10 titles or so for 2 months, we felt it was for the birds and left. They do not know how to run a business.
They bash their clientelle of affiliates to gain a profit or further traffic. Now they are bribing their affiliates.

What's Next??? :bs:

[nickbaer]

I just got an e-mail from one of the actual XOD staff saying that the above e-mail is a fake.

[GL_Marc]

Looks pretty real to me... :hmm:

[nickbaer]

So do the daily e-mails from Nigeria.

[GL_Marc]

But that is Frank's e-mail address and it includes something specific to their situation, so if it is fake, someone did their homework to make it look damn real.

Oh well, I don't work for them anymore, I guess it is up for them to sort all this out. When I saw this thread, I just wanted to let the board know my personal experience working for them, which I admit is somewhat tainted because of how things ended...

[basschick]

$150 is not much of a bribe. did you write back and point out that money wasn't really the issue here? i'd ask for a public apology, no disrespectful terms on their gay titles and no more gay jokes.

Now Xondemand is bribing. They seem almost too desperate now. This email came in a few minutes ago. Below is the screen cap of the email. It was a form letter! I wonder how many others have received the same.

We left them 3 years ago when we went exclusive with AEBN. After AEBN we went back with all of the providers. After only making $10 a month on 10 titles or so for 2 months, we felt it was for the birds and left. They do not know how to run a business.
They bash their clientelle of affiliates to gain a profit or further traffic. Now they are bribing their affiliates.

What's Next??? :bs:

[derekt]

No reply was made to them. I think they know how the community feels about their negligence of insults in marketing per this board and GFY. The additional revenue stream would honestly be nice, but why should we want to work with a company that would represent our product and our brand with the slurs which they made on a public forum?

[basschick]

i don't think they entirely DO know how the community feels. look at the new transforners movie and their recist characters - the director is still saying they didn't mean any hard, and to a startling number of people, that seems to cover it.

No reply was made to them. I think they know how the community feels about their negligence of insults in marketing per this board and GFY. The additional revenue stream would honestly be nice, but why should we want to work with a company that would represent our product and our brand with the slurs which they made on a public forum?

[nickbaer]

Frank would like a copy of the e-mail forwarded to him, with the long headers intact.