Next Door Studios

Next Door Studios Review

Next Door Studios has been producing gay porn since 2004 when they launched their first site, Next Door Male, featuring mostly straight jocks jerking their cocks. Over the years, they’ve grown into a massive gay porn empire with 21 sites, and in the summer of 2023 they took another leap forward when Next Door Studios was added to the company’s new network, ASG Max (Alpha Studios Group), which now boasts 85 channels with over 13,000 videos. We last reviewed the site in March 2024, and we’re back to see what’s been happening since then. It’s a good, solid site with plenty to cover, so let’s get logged in.

The performers are usually 20-something jocks, studs, athletic and muscle men, but there's the odd guy in his thirties. Many start off as amateurs or fresh faces but quickly become mainstays like Brandon Anderson, Dakota Payne, Justin Matthews, Roman Todd, and so many others. These guys are usually good looking with physiques ranging from athletic to muscular, and many of them have been billed as straight, although this seems to be less of a focus these days. There’s the odd twink, too, like Trevor Harris, Cristiano, Luca Ambrose, and the very well-hung Drake Von.

Most of the new releases feature suck and fuck action in duos, but there are over 500 threesomes and a little more than two dozen videos with four or more guys. There's plenty of performers sucking cock and getting their asses pounded, some rimming and kissing, and a little gym sex and flip-flop fucking. Masturbation solos were the draw back in 2004, and while the newer updates focus on hardcore action, solos made a brief comeback during the pandemic when at-home filming became the norm on the now defunct channel Next Door Homemade. 

Next Door Studios was the catch-all for videos from all of the Next Door sites, so Next Door Raw, Next Door Buddies, Next Door Twink, Next Door Taboo, although the occasional video was produced under the Next Door Studios brand, too. A couple of other gay porn sites like Rod’s Room and Stag Collective joined this network. Now, with ASG Max, you’ll find so much more here from 85 channels, but more about that later.

Next Door Raw is the studio's bareback site, and it was launched to test the raw sex arena, but these days, almost all of the Next Door Studios scenes are condom-free. While the site featured the odd video from Next Door Taboo, this company’s fauxcest offering with stepbrother fucking or stepdads having sex with horny stepsons, all 205 videos found a home in the site’s new channel, and it continues to update. Next Door Buddies and Next Door Twink offer lots of guy-on-guy sex featuring guys of varying ages, although the guys in Next Door Twink videos aren’t often twinks. Rod’s Room features gay porn stars in creative fuck sessions from director and photographer Michael Vegas. Stag Collective, which featured many guys in first-time gay sex scenes, no longer updates.

Next Door Studios now offers 5,428 videos in MP4 format, up from 5,334 at our last review. Newer scenes are provided in multiple sizes up to 1080p (Full HD), with additional options at 720p (HD), 540p and 480p (SD), plus three smaller versions for mobile viewing. Each scene runs between 30 and 60 minutes, with most averaging around 40 minutes. While the majority of recent videos are sharp and smooth in 1080p, some of the very newest productions are also available in 4K Ultra HD. Older videos are lower resolution, often capped at 720p (SD), with two or three smaller sizes, and the quality reflects the time they were produced. Streaming works in an adaptable player that resizes to fit your device, and full-screen playback looks best on the newer HD and 4K content, though even the older material runs without issue thanks to the network’s solid servers.

There are now 9,888 picture sets in the Photos section, up from 9,424 at our last review. This includes galleries from across all of the ASG Max producers, although it’s still not possible to sort them by studio. Each video’s episode page links directly to its matching gallery, so you won’t miss the corresponding photos. The quality varies: older sets are mostly digital stills around 800x1068 at average quality, while newer sets go up to 1280x1920 and are bright, crisp, and well lit at good to very good quality. Some collections, like those from Next Door Homemade, are screencaps with more of an amateur look. The galleries use small thumbnails for browsing and a simple forward/back viewer, without a slideshow option, but you can enlarge them to full screen for super-sized images. Entire sets can also be downloaded in convenient zip files, or you can save photos individually.

Let’s talk about the ASG Max network, which Next Door Studio is now a part of, because it factors into the updates and bonus content sections. There are 85 gay porn channels here including Next Door Studios, and you’ll have full access to 13,037 videos. If you were previously a member of Next Door Studios, you’ll now find several new sites here like Disruptive Films with its edgy and often chilling story lines, well-hung men from Extra Big Dicks, mature men at Men Over 30, gay military sex at Active Duty, the new and exciting gay animation series Sodomy Squad, and fauxcest action from Family Creep, as well as some videos (but not entire inventories) from Chaos Men and Blacks on Boys. Many of the channels feature smaller numbers of videos from a particular theme or series filmed by one of the studios like Taboo Men and True Male from Disruptive Films or Fraternity Fantasies or Bro Code from Next Door Studios. There’s also a Bonus channel with a couple of dozen third-party videos.

With so many channels under ASG Max, it’s difficult to pin down a strict update schedule for Next Door Studios alone. Looking at the network overall, the total has grown from 12,538 videos at our last review to 13,037 now — an increase of 499 scenes over 18 months. That works out to around 27–28 new videos per month, which lines up with the 26 updates posted in August. In practice, that means members can expect roughly six fresh scenes each week spread across the different channels, with Next Door Studios continuing to be one of the most active contributors.

There are some issues. There's a pre-checked offer on the right side of billing page, but it's easy to uncheck if you're not interested. There's a pop-up if you back out of the billing page, but it's easy to close. When joining this site, you are automatically added to their email list with no way to opt out until later. Members must cancel at least 48 hours before their next rebill, otherwise they'll be renewed one more time. When logging into the site, you’ll pass through a full-page ad, but there's a very obvious link leading to the members area. There's a notification pop-up on the tour; if you share a computer, we recommend you block this or you'll get porn notifications in your browser at random times. Finally, when joining Next Door Studios you’re actually joining ASG Max - it’s no longer possible to join any of this company’s sites on their own.

Any way you look at it, Next Door Studios remains one of the strongest brands in gay porn and a solid value. Since our last review, the site itself has added 94 new videos, bringing its total to 5,428, and the ASG Max network it’s part of has grown from 12,538 to 13,037 videos across 85 gay porn channels. That means thousands of scenes with jocks, twinks, porn stars, amateurs, daddies, and men of color, plus nearly 10,000 picture sets and a steady stream of new updates — about six fresh scenes a week. You can stream or download the content to enjoy on your mobiles (though note there’s also a streaming-only option, so pick the membership that fits you best). With years of content to explore and consistent updates, this network earns a solid recommendation for anyone who wants plenty of choice and lots of hot sex.

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