Venture backed adult site Zivity finally figured out that there’s a whole other market out there beyond guys (and a few women) who want to look at naked women. Lots of women (and a few men) apparently want to look at naked guys, too. So in a lightning bolt of marketing genius, they doubled their potential market size in a single blog post: Zividudes.
They’re taking nominations for who users want to see without their clothes on (topless for now). Once the list is set they’ll start going down the list to see who’s brave enough to say yes: “We’ll start with the top choice and work our way down until someone is brave enough to say yes! We’ll pay for the photo shoot by one of our top photographers, so the Zivity Dude will look *fantastic*.”
Who do you want to see shirtless? Twitter the name out with the hashtag #zividude and your vote will be counted. Early favorites include Kevin Rose, Chris Saad, Loren Feldman (although his wife is making the push), Jim Fishef and Sean Percival.
Let me know how it all turns out. And be on the lookout for Ashton Kutcher to try to steal the show. That guy will do anything for a little press. In fact, maybe Kutcher and Kevin Rose can do a dual bromance photoshoot?
You laugh now, Arrington. 3 years from now you’ll be Lorenzo Lamas of web2.0. Only it’ll be web4.0 by then and the new PR hotties will just avoid eye contact and back slowly away as you sputter on about your soon-to-be-released crunchpad.
6 months later you’ll have a green screen setup in your San Carlos apartment doing the adult blog-roll with Calcanis on zivity pay-per-view.
ouch. what pr firm do you work for?
No PR. I’ve got no beef (tee hee)…I just couldn’t resist the oppty to talk some juvenile smack in the top comment.
Hahahaha! Mike, you sure have hurt some feelings recently.
recently?
You didn’t mention that you had also been nominated
OMG someone call Levi Johnston!
i love adsense for showing relevant Ads… here is what i see at my end on this post http://img522.i.../2082/tcads.jpg
Hm, I’ve dated one of these guys. Not sure how I feel about this.
I vote for The Woz.
Dude – send a tweet. Woz would rock.
I would do pantless, topless I need to think about.
We are down with the no pants option.
The title of the set will be “No Shirt. No Shoes. No Service”
Jason just nominated me. Ya’ll ready to see my pasty geek ass rock the lens?
change so fast
Great!
this is the funniest post on techcrunch by far!
This is just a sad testament to the flawed thought-process at Zivity. You can’t survive on the web building what is effectively a valley-centric in-joke.
Wake us if you ever grow non-literal balls and make waves and progress in online erotica.
We have a community the size of a city that spans across the world. Go back to sleep, it is ok. We like not having you here
Why is this site still getting coverage. They barely have any traffic — especially for the amount of $ they’ve gotten.
Zivity used to be talked about in the same sentence as Mint. Not so much anymore….I see this as a desperate stunt to get people back on the site.
Ross. Subscription site. Duh. Less traffic.