I had several discussions at Project/Magic about how popular thongs have become in the last year. 2017 was the year of the thong, without a doubt. Look at UNB, we have over half of our guys who love the design and wear them as much as possible.

One idea I had was to run more thong content. The best thing would be a thong review every Thursday. But this got me thinking that it would be costly as well. We used to get all our undies given to us by brands but in the last few years, we have started to buy more of what we review.

Here are the results of the survey:

95% of the guys who answered are a fan of thongs. This survey was open to all readers who liked or didn’t like Thongs

An overwhelming percentage, 93% want to see more thong content. I was expecting a high number but not this high.

An even larger amount want to see a thong review every Thursday.

We then asked who would support us in creating this content. It’s not surprising that only 38% of people wanted to support us financially

Mos guys would donate $1 but the $6-10 was a surprise. I was expecting the two low-end options to have the highest votes.

Currently we pull in 99% of our income via advertising. Anytime you click an ad and buy something you are supporting us! The other 1% is from Patreon. We have a great group of guys who have supported us for a while. This income supports the site with hosting for the year, subscriptions for services and some travel expenses (Las Vegas & Bham).

If we did do a thong review a week (including video reviews), the chart below is the rough break down for the year.

It would be about $1,300 for a thong a week. Yes, we may get some donated for review. And we want to let you guys pick some as well. So that could increase the costs.

Here are the ideas I have come up with:

• Amount to make happen – To make this happen we need to raise $108 a month to cover these costs.
• Perks for members – Above a certain donation level, they would vote on one thong a month to review. It would be nominated and voted on by Patreons
• Swimwear Vs Underwear – how many pairs of swim vs underwear would you want to see? (this would be limited by the reviewer and time of year.

I”d love to get some feedback on those who would support it. Email us at info@underwearnewsbriefs.com

We are in the need of a web server guy! Preferably one who loves underwear! Our current IT guy doesn’t know a lot about servers and it’s done by the seat of his pants. (That guy is me!) We don’t have many issues but occasionally we do and it can be a simple fix or something more complex.

Here is what we are looking for:

• A guy to review error logs monthly
• Make suggestions to improve server
• Make a plant to optimize server for performance
• Help when issues arise

We don’t have too many issues lately. But having someone on staff would be great. Fill out the form and let’s talk. We can talk compensation and free undies!

This is a picture done by Armando Adajar featuring model Will Clark in Timoteo underwear. Super fun and sexy picture from 2015

Today is the last day to vote for your favorites! Our UNB 2018 Reader Awards are about to come to a close. We hope you have had fun campaigning and voting for your favorite pairs. This is a lot of work for us but is a lot of fun. We will be back for another award season in January/February 2019! So go vote now at our UNB 2018 Reader Awards Ballot.

Here is the thong poll result. You guys really love thongs! I can tell anytime we run a thong poll they always have higher response rate. This was just like the others! Let’s go over the results

94% of you guys are a fan of thongs. I know this number is skewed by the guys who answered. It’s no surprise. We do, however, have a large number of you guys who love thongs.

87% of you guys want to see more thong content on UNB. Which is a good thing because we have quite a few thong fans on staff.  They will gladly review more and do more thong centric posts. Now, we don’t want to turn the site into Thong News Briefs but we think 2 posts a week on thongs is not overdoing it. One being a review and the other being a write-up or Brief distraction.

98% of you guys would love to see a thong review every Thursday. This means this is something you guys really want who love thongs. Now that we have video reviewers, we could do thong reviews. Seeing a video of the thong is a great thing. The ones we have had are awesome. Martin and Andrew are amazing guys.

This one didn’t surprise me. I was a little letdown but not surprised. Almost 40% would support us through a crwodfunding site such as Patreon. If we do a thong post every Thursday and the thong price averages $20 that would be for the year, review pairs would cost $1,040 a year. Not to mention other pairs we are currently buying. After costs of the site (hosting, domain, email and etc), we would need help to accomplish this goal. Plus we would reward those who support us as well!

I am reevaluating our levels on Patreon due to this info and will be releasing new reward levels and posting. Any reward levels you guys want to see let me know!

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We get to talk to two thong experts. We talk about gay vs. straight, swim thongs, thongs at the gym and more. These two guys love their thongs and not ashamed to wear them in public or playing tennis.

There are some audio issues. The recording Softwear changed somethings since I last used it and it will be fixed by our next episode. I apologize for that. You get UNB on the left side and the guests on the right side.

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The show is over and it was a good day for UNB at the show. I was accompanied by The Thonged Ginger. We met with Tulio, Skull & Bones, UnderJeans, Ginch Gonch, Cocksox, 2EROs, Olaf Benz, Man Store, Gregg Homme, and Freedom Reigns, now known as FR. It was a full day! I say that because I only now get one day at the show rather than the entire week

We had an issue with registration for the first time ever. We went to the Press registration and was told we didn’t have access to the Project Show. Being calm I was like “WHAT?” I register about a month out of the show and get a confirmation. They were about to send us to another area when they contacted the PR person and found out we were good to be press.

Here are some of the highlights. I won’t go into a lot of detail because when new lines are coming out we will write them up.

• 2EROS turns 10 this year! They will be revisiting some classic 2EROS from the first year and release some amazing prints in swimwear (not like that’s a surprise)
• Tulio is sending us some lace, Tulio is known for doing some great stuff in swim and underwear but he’s sending us lace to review. One of his biggest sellers currently
• SKull & Bones really impressed me with their gear. The prints are just amazing. Just wait to you see whats coming up next for them. Super fun and it’s for the print lover
• Olaf Benz and Manstore – These now have a US distributor! This was one of the most exciting things of the entire show. SO many guys love both brands but having to order from overseas makes it difficult to get. Not anymore. We will be informing you where and how you can get both of these
• UnderJeans continue to make amazing swimwear. Which will come soon and super fun work out wear? Just in case you forgot they have rebranded from Junk UnderJeans
• Ginch Gonch, you thought they were gone, didn’t you? They have something very classic coming up. It caught my eye in their booth.
• Cocksox has a new Italian mesh line that is out now. I saw the email go out on Thursday. More on that next week. They have some amazing new colors in swimwear! I think you guys are going to go crazy for the mesh.
• FR (Freedom Reigns) is all about workout wear and swimwear. They have some underwear but shifted the focus for the brand. The new gear looks amazing. Also, I have one hint of something in the line. Flamingos. That’s all I’m saying.
• Wood Underwear – They have new prints coming out and later this year a color you don’t see a lot of in men’s underwear. Which I personally loved.
• Gregg Homme lastly is the brand I needed to catch up with. They continue to amaze me and create super fun underwear. I got to see the new line, the first time in two years. They do amazing undies.

Some Show takeaways

• The attendance on the last day seemed to be down. I’m not sure if this was just what was happening or me missing the other days.
• Fewer brands go every year. There were the brands above. I remember where there were 27+ brands. Many are seeing it more advantageous to do everything online.
• Placement of the brands varies. Last show they had a great location and this time they were back in the corner again.

I love Vegas and the shows. No telling what the future will hold.