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February 14, 2008

No Date For Valentine’s Day? Get Some “Adult Content” At Zivity

Michael Arrington

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Zivity, the venture-backed adult content site, which we first covered in August 2007, is starting to get mainstream press attention - co-founder Scott Banister appeared on the Fox Business Channel late last year, and Forbes wrote a long piece on them last week.

The service, which distributes payments to models and photographers based on user voting, is still in private beta. Today, though, they are giving away a bunch of accounts to TechCrunch readers - just be one of the first 1,000 people to email techcrunch@zivity.com and you’re in.

Zivity will also be giving invitations to users to give to friends shortly, so we’ve added them to InviteShare. If you don’t get an account via the email above, add yourself there and someone will invite you as soon as the feature is turned on.

Zivity launched at TechCrunch40 last Fall, and co-founder Cyan Banister is becoming somewhat famous since she isn’t just an employee - she also models for the site.

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  1. i am under age

    February 14th, 2008 at 2:48 pm

    the girl on their front page scares me.
    too wild for me. and too big on my screen… not too comfortable.

  2. Infamous

    February 14th, 2008 at 2:48 pm

    Thanks for the hook up, I bet a lot of people have been waiting to check this out ;)

  3. i am under age

    February 14th, 2008 at 2:49 pm

    o. just refresh it, got another one, much better now. :)

  4. Tyler Wright

    February 14th, 2008 at 2:49 pm

    thanks for endorsing porn MA.
    Porn always leads to promising things… adultery, divorce, fatherless children. nice

  5. Alex

    February 14th, 2008 at 2:51 pm

    They are hiring a Product Manager.

    What kind of perks do you think come with that job. Hopefully, hands on, eh:)

    Cool idea!

  6. i am under age

    February 14th, 2008 at 2:51 pm

    then you will get another community/SN for single mom and fatherless children.

    the scary women i first saw was le’evil. should take her off, scare the hell out of me.

  7. Everett

    February 14th, 2008 at 2:56 pm

    Met both Scott and his wife at TC40! Very cool peeps and I wish them the best!

  8. Jeff the Great

    February 14th, 2008 at 3:01 pm

    is the content free?

  9. Ramon

    February 14th, 2008 at 3:01 pm

    this week’s post check:
    seesmic = check
    zivity = check
    mahalo = scheduled for friday

  10. Technology For The Masses

    February 14th, 2008 at 3:32 pm

    So porn is going legit…

  11. josh

    February 14th, 2008 at 3:33 pm

    Haha. losers.

  12. damon

    February 14th, 2008 at 3:42 pm

    zivity is such a loser…if people want porn…they want real porn…not this soft crap

  13. Ryan

    February 14th, 2008 at 3:57 pm

    I’m getting disgusted with Michael’s coverage of this site.

  14. Andrew

    February 14th, 2008 at 3:59 pm

    @4 You are probably a Huckabee supporter

  15. john

    February 14th, 2008 at 4:07 pm

    People, THIS IS NOT PORN!

    Michael, it appears that most of your commentators can’t read between the lines. this is not a porn service!

  16. Humble Pie

    February 14th, 2008 at 4:13 pm

    Not porn, true.

    Far too classy for porn.
    It’s more like art.

    Just flat out beautiful.

  17. David

    February 14th, 2008 at 4:18 pm

    this shit is funny. i’m home alone on valentine’s day - can i please get a free account?

  18. josh

    February 14th, 2008 at 4:20 pm

    @16
    no, its not art. its soft porn. People call it art to feel better about themselves for looking at porn.

  19. Masters of Trivia

    February 14th, 2008 at 4:45 pm

    Will she please be my Valentine? :)

  20. Isaac

    February 14th, 2008 at 5:02 pm

    @14 is there a problem with @4 having an opinion contrary to your own? Maybe everyone should just agree with you all the time…Post Nazi.

    @9 Hilarious, there totally is a checklist :)

    Granted we are in America, where we can all make up our own labels about this, but most people (and Advertisers, Agencies and decent, law abiding folk included) have to be 18 to see it and thus call this softcore porn as its style is similar to Playboy, this is defferent b/c it has with older/slightly less attractive women ;)…if we can’t look at it with a Kraft Mac ‘n’ Cheese ad next to it, it’s possible that it’s not Art…

  21. Dirk Diggler

    February 14th, 2008 at 5:40 pm

    Fox Business Channel is not mainstream. How much stock does Mike own in News Corp?

  22. Sean

    February 14th, 2008 at 5:46 pm

    “Porn always leads to promising things… adultery, divorce, fatherless children. nice”

    Just like a glass of wine leads to alcoholism, homelessness, violent crimes.

  23. Johnny Rocket

    February 14th, 2008 at 6:05 pm

    Until they start shooting models in LA, this site won’t fly. Busted SF girls do not a hot site make.

  24. ipanema

    February 14th, 2008 at 6:47 pm

    just went to their website. i think they should change the lady in the frontpage. she’s a bit old. this can’t attract men. i guess your last post about them with a woman lying spread-eagled in bed is more likely to attract. :)

    is this a porn site or a social networking about porn models?

  25. Mr. Long John

    February 14th, 2008 at 7:15 pm

    “Until they start shooting models in LA, this site won’t fly. Busted SF girls do not a hot site make.”

    Ding ding ding. We have a winner!

    Why this startup keeps getting mentioned on TechCrunch is beyond me. Maybe Michael has his eye on one of the “models”?

  26. Sarah Meyers

    February 14th, 2008 at 7:25 pm

    @25, what about models in New York?

  27. uploadchoice

    February 14th, 2008 at 8:52 pm

    Most important how their security features works to protect their users as far adult content is concerned, the site looks sexier, no doubt!

  28. The Hater

    February 14th, 2008 at 9:14 pm

    That was so boring and was/is a total waste of time. If I want porn, I’ll get porn.

  29. The Lover

    February 14th, 2008 at 9:19 pm

    I love it. It is somewhere in the middle.

    Now to decide my fav….

  30. Greasyguide.com

    February 14th, 2008 at 9:28 pm

    Wow! This has to be the worst site ever. A Credit Card age check and then $10 to buy voting credits to vote for some busted babes. This is the first time that I’ve want to re-send a free web invite. I vote for this site to be in the deathpool sometime in 2008. And where is the diversity amongst the girls? And where are the guy models?

  31. mik

    February 14th, 2008 at 9:58 pm

    mike whats your fascination with this porn site?

    Are you getting some action from the girls there?

  32. whoopie

    February 14th, 2008 at 10:10 pm

    laaaame

    1. no one is going to pay for softcore

    2. girl on login page needs to be hit with the airbrush

    3. michelle7 is already doing this stuff better

    4. no one is going to pay for softcore

    5. newgals.com

    6. no one is going to pay for softcore

    7. newgals.com

    thank you

  33. realwomen

    February 14th, 2008 at 10:18 pm

    This is a site for real beauty. We will not be airbrushed.

  34. lobsterboy

    February 14th, 2008 at 10:45 pm

    sure, if you want “real porn”, go get it. but understand that the majority of the porn industry boils down to the fact that the models/actresses are severely taken advantage of.

    i love this model of “digging” photosets, and i love the way the models/photographers get paid directly. this is the democratization/crowdsourcing of porn. if blogging etc. disrupts the traditional journalistic model of the NYT, WSJ and CNN, Zivity disrupts the traditional model dominated by Playboy, Hustler, etc.

    keep in mind the site is in private beta, so of course the content is limited. but having the women who take off their clothes benefit directly from you staring at them is a fantastic idea, and should have happened centuries ago.

    and to all the anti-porn commenters: it’s obvious that porn will not go away easily. personally, i think that the harmful effects of porn are debatable, but Zivity gives us a model for porn that is much less harmful than what the current porn industry offers.

  35. anon

    February 15th, 2008 at 12:52 pm

    Requires a credit card to sign up = FAIL

  36. takeitez

    February 15th, 2008 at 1:31 pm

    calling it porn sets the wrong expectation.

    zivity is not competing with free adult content providers or p2p networks. if you want girl-on-girl anal, you can find it on a torrent.

  37. edward domain

    February 15th, 2008 at 5:45 pm

    @#20 Isaac: Godwins law is alive and well it seems. You lose your argument…now

  38. zivityisFTW

    February 15th, 2008 at 5:48 pm

    Edward - you rock. You don’t just rock - you pwn. Great comment.

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