On Tuesday evening, this year's Cybersocket Web Awards were held at the glamorous Penthouse Nightclub in West Hollywood. The awards have been around since 2001 and claim to celebrate the "best" in the online gay adult industry. This year was notable for the insane number of nominees in each category (some had over 30).

 

Winners are determined by the number of votes gay web surfers cast at CyberSocketWebAwards.com, so  the amount of effort a nominated site puts into pushing traffic to the Cybersocket website is closely correlated to the number of votes it gets in its category. So sometimes an award actually goes to one of the best in a category -- and other times it just makes no sense at all. Here are some of this year's winners: 

 

SURFERS' CHOICE AWARDS 
 

Best Newcomer: Sebastian Kross

 

Best European Site: TimTales.com

Best Hardcore/Fetish Site: KinkMen.com

Best Hookup Site/Mobile Hookup App: Grindr

 

 

Best Ethnic-Themed Site: Latin Boyz

 

Best Live Cam Site: Cam4

Best Massage Site: Men4RentNow

Best Escort Site: RentMen

 

Best Porn Star: Antonio Biaggi

 

Best Product/Retail Site: Andrew Christian

Best Movie or Web Series of the Year: Meeting Liam

Best New Site: Icon Male

 

Best Mobile Content Site: Men.com

 

Best Niche Site: Str8 To Gay [part of men.com]

Best Personality: Colby Keller

Best Porn Review Site: Str8UpGayPorn

 

Best Sex Scene: Two Americans for a Frenchie from French-Twinks and Helix Studios – Starring Camille Kenzo, Casey Tanner, and Blake Mitchell

 

Best Video Site: Bel Ami Online

Best VOD Site: Naked Sword

Best Webcam Performer: Pierre Fitch

 

INDUSTRY CHOICE AWARDS
(VOTED ON BY A SECRET PANEL OF INDUSTRY INSIDERS)

 

Somehow the presenting sponsor of the Cybersocket Awards, Flirt4Free, won both the "Company of the Year" and "Best Affiliate Program" Awards. Go figure. 

Businessperson Of The Year: Jake Jaxson (of Cocky Boys)

 

Best Content Producer: Helix Studios

 

Cybersocket Wall of Fame Award of Excellence: Trenton Ducati