website softcore pornography founded april 2000 defunct 2005 headquarters los angeles california u.s. key people eric eisner bruce forman number of employees 35 spring summer of 200 14 fall of 2000 11 summer of 2001 website romp.com archive the romp also known as romp.com was a los angeles based entertainment website that specialized in original flash animation videos and games . it began operations in april 2000 and closed in 2005 . the website was founded by bruce forman and eric eisner son of michael eisner . the site was known for its raunchy politically incorrect content and its target demographic described by eisner as people who watch south park listen to howard stern and read maxim 1 was males age 16 to 25 . 2 contents 1 history 2 content 3 expansion to film television and magazines 4 references 5 external links history edit eric eisner and bruce forman met at ucla s anderson school of management where they both earned their mba degrees in june of 1999 . they got the idea for a site targeting young men during their final months at ucla . 1 eisner and forman were 26 and 28 respectively when they put up the initial seed money for romp.com in 2000 and followed that by drawing in 15 million from private investors . 2 the site attracted nearly 200 000 users during its first six weeks and boasted 35 employees downsized to 14 in the fall of 2000 . by march of 2001 romp.com had 600 000 registered users . 3 romp.com started a subscription service called the romp mafia in march 2001 attracting 11 000 subscribers in its first three weeks . 3 content edit romp.com was primarily known for its flash animation video series . the site also featured message boards called spew boards chat rooms and softcore images of women . some of romp.com s web series included booty call a choose your own adventure game co created by julian max metter and cate mcmanus in which users played as ladies man jake voiced by metter and guided him in his quest to get laid . booty call was romp.com s flagship show . napster bad money good a series satirizing musicians reactions to then popular music sharing site napster tardz a series about mentally challenged white collar professionals the adventures of bill and ted an animated series following the adventures of bill clinton and ted kennedy sex and the inner city a parody of the then new hbo series sex and the city coach bigot an animated series about a stereotypically bigoted redneck little league coach expansion to film television and magazines edit romp.com quickly began to expand from the web to a full fledged entertainment company . in the fall of 2000 romp.com signed a development deal with mandalay sports entertainment to produce reality game shows . 4 two projects developed by the company include peephole which involved people on the street being offered money to do outrageous things while contestants bet on how far the people on the street will go to get the money 5 and the hunt which followed contestants on a cross country scavenger hunt 6 but neither made it to the air . romp.com signed a deal with h & s media to create a mini magazine of repurposed content to accompany h & s s maxim esque men s magazine the edge . romp.com was in final talks with h & s to create a standalone romp magazine 7 but that never came to fruition when h & s went bankrupt in fall of 2001 . 8 after downsizing four employees and cutting the site s staff to 11 forman announced plans for romp.com to shift its focus from original web programming to traditional media in may 2001 concluding it is mission impossible to make money off the internet with original programming . 9 romp.com s production company offshoot romp studios independently produced jake s booty call a feature length version of the site s popular series booty call in 2003 . the film which was co written and co directed by eric eisner and booty call co creator star julian max metter was acquired by national lampoon for distribution . references edit a b gellene denise and marla dickerson april 19 2000 . eisner s son makes hollywood debut but not on prime time . la times . retrieved may 2 2015 . cite error invalid ref tag ; name latimes defined multiple times with different content see the help page . a b adweek staff july 3 2000 . iq interactive special report e content romp n roll . adweek . retrieved may 2 2015 . a b gallivan joseph march 29 2001 . eisner s son s site romping home . ny post . retrieved may 2 2015 . graser marc september 25 2000 . iq interactive special report e content romp n roll . variety . retrieved may 2 2015 . robichson noah october 20 2000 . the romp sex and the city is spoofed on the comedy website . entertainment weekly . retrieved may 2 2015 . bond paul september 25 2000 . peep hunt make romp from web to tv . the hollywood reporter . retrieved may 2 2015 . graser marc april 5 2001 . is anybody left . variety . retrieved may 2 2015 . chicago business staff september 23 2001 . h & s media to sell magazines . chicago business . retrieved may 2 2015 . marlowe chris may 8 2001 . romp finds internet plan mission impossible . the hollywood reporter . retrieved may 2 2015 . external links edit romp.com archive eisner s son makes hollywood debut but not on prime time la times article retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title the romp website & oldid 719729118 categories companies disestablished in 2005companies established in 1999defunct online companies of the united statesdefunct websitesonline companiesdot com bubblehidden categories pages with reference errorspages with duplicate reference names navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 11 may 2016 at 12 33 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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