EUROPEAN PANEL

Our Panel members are carefully selected based on their unique, broad knowledge of the gay, adult porn industry. Our panel this year includes representatives from Your Paysite Partner, OLB Media, Studio Presse, Alphatribe Magazine & Belin Dark. Between them, they have many years of experience.

Once the voting has closed, using their collective knowledge alongside the public’s vote, our Panel will deliver a final list of this year’s winners.

Paul Stag

Porn Director / Pornstar / Panel Chair

Paul is a UK-based gay porn model, director, journalist & studio boss. After 10 successful years in the military, he joined the Police Force and started in the adult industry at the same time 22 years ago. He is a well know successful escort nominated 6 times running as International escort of the year.

Antoine Barde

Studio Press SARL

I've been working in the gay adult industry for 16 years, joining Studio Presse in 2007 as a partner, in charge of administration, acquisitions and business relations with studios, affiliates and distributors. In January 2019 we launched pornsitemanager.com, a platform providing paysites to more than 30 gay European studios. I am thrilled to join the panel again this year and look forward to celebrating the very best of European porn.

Daddy Mike

SmileFilmz Production Owner, Creator Manager & Content Creator

Mike is the owner of SmileFilmz Productions, a proud partner at SXRank and has been managing creators and creating content himself for nearly 4 years. Mike also administers over 50 groups on WhatsApp and Telegram dedicated to Creators that serve as a bustling marketplace for them to exchange ideas, collaborate, and engage in marketing initiatives. He also organizes monthly Creator Collab Weekends across Europe.

Queer Me Now

Owner - QueerMeNow.com Blog

I launched the Queer Me Now blog (queermenow.net/blog) back in 2006 because of my love for gay pornography. I also run @QueerMeNow on X/Twitter which now grows to more than 800k followers. I report news about the gay adult industry and promote gay porn actors, scenes, and studios for more than a decade and have fun doing it.

Gary Blumenthal

Affiliate Manager - OLB

Gary has been an innovative force in the adult industry since 1999 when he launched the first live gay sex show (with sound), called liveguyz.com along with the first exclusively gay affiliate marketing and branding consultation firm, adultpromarketing.com. In 2010 Gary joined the team at Online Buddies Inc. with the mission of bringing together adult-oriented social media and high-quality streaming video.

Kenny B

Owner - Your Paysite Partner & Stunner Media

I started peddling smut in 1999 and can't imagine doing anything else. There isn't a better industry of better people to be in. From ads on Craigslist and my 1.3-megapixel camera to working with some of today's top producers I appreciate the past and look forward to my future in this wonderful world of pornography.

Iorgos Kalamatianós

Proprietor of fetish sex club BERLIN DARK

As the proprietor of the fetish sex club BERLIN DARK, which opened its doors to the public in early 2007 I have been actively involved discreetly in the Barcelona and European kinky nightlife scene, by providing a safe place for the fetish community mainly gay but always all-inclusive. Interested and actively helping the porn industry making Berlin Dark one of the most used shooting sites for Barcelona porn productions.

Gay Barcelona Porn

Owner - Gay Barcelona Porn

Gay BCN Porn was created in 2009 initially as a blog with the idea of promoting content for gay adults. Then in 2019, it expanded its dissemination to X (Twitter) with the creation of the @GayBCNPorno account where it had more than 250 thousand followers. It currently focuses its dissemination on American and European production companies, as well as profiles of actors on the JustForFans platform, in addition to supporting and giving visibility to gay businesses in Barcelona.