Say what? According to our friends at The Sword, another gay print publication has been sent to its grave. Though it hasn't officially been announced yet, Unzipped magazine is pretty much over. Half of the staff was laid off this past Friday, as Regent Media's Paul Colichman revealed that the magazine would no longer be published.
Michael Matson and Zach Sire are still holding down the Unzipped blog, so there appears to be some hope that Unzipped will continue to live on in some shape or form. More details on this matter to come, as soon as someone e-mails us to explain what the fuck is going on.
– Dewitt
Another hardcopy porn mag bites the dust…the Internet is killing them off one by one. All of them should have figured out a way to amortize the online audience better way before now. Too bad really.
There’s more than magazine death going on here. Regent Media is clearly way over it’s head and is completely unable to run any of their various companies.
Amateur porn on the internet is posing a serious challenge to professionally produced porn. It’s very easy to find free porn, so fewer people are willing to pay for it.
if they hired me, i’d get them up and running within a week and their website traffic up.
problem with unzipped magazine is very generic mag covers, too little headlines and empty spaces and i could go on.
these days most successful magazines just use it basically as promotions for their internet content, its kind of the written manual to the internet site, and free advertising for their internet site.
unzipped is too generic, nothing stands out, color scheme would never attract gay guys.
this cover you are showing is a classic example, looks like an ad for a dodgy steroid company instead of the cover of a magazine
wow, that’s really sad. i used to get unzipped years ago. didn’t they used to have personals in the back?
magazines have only one place to live…
waiting rooms…
Atleast with Reader’s Digest (good eg) the readers can go to nline articles that intrigue them when they get back home and won’t have enough time to read all over though many of them by the time they’re done 😛
Any idea where I can get a refund on my subscription?