Pros:
- Large archive of extremely hi-res and high quality photos
- Large amount of viewing options for photos
- Very frequent updates
- Models are hot
Cons:
- Limited video viewing/download options
- No interaction
Members Area Content as of December 1, 2004:
ATK Premium Pics: 62 models for a total of 52,420 pics
ATK Premium Vids: 150+ videos
Other Content: Access to the ATK Lounge
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ATK Premium is the fourth and final ATKingdom site I'm going to be taking a look at for QAP. Over the past couple of weeks I've reviewed ATK Galleria, ATK Exotics, and ATK Natural & Hairy and now, in the time-honored tradition of saving the best for last, it's time to check out ATK Premium. As you'll see, Premium is quite a bit different from it's 3 sister sites. If you've read my previous reviews of the various ATKingdom members areas, or if you are otherwise familiar with ATKingdom, you'll know that their main claim to fame is offering an enormous amount of content (we're talking hundreds of thousands of pictures and thousands of videos) to their members. This is certainly impressive (especially in the case of some hard-to-fill niches I saw in Exotics and Natural and Hairy), but you definitely get the feel that quantity is being emphasized over quality. Here at ATK Premium, a different approach is taken. Although they still maintain an impressive update schedule (and their 52,000+ pics and 150+ vids is certainly nothing to sneeze at), Premium is definitely more focused in on the individual models than the other ATKingdom sites. You'll also find more attention to detail in general here (design, organization, graphics, update descriptions) and the quality (which is some cases sagged down to just average in other ATKingdom offerings) is phenomenal here at Premium. All this sounds great to me; let's take a closer look inside ATK Premium.
As I said, ATK Premium is a totally different animal from it's sister sites (Galleria, Natural and Hairy, and Exotics) and as if to exentuate this fact, the setup and design here is uniquely it's own. The members area at Premium looks professional and well-organized and the main page does a good job of connecting you with the various sections of the site. At the top of the page is a small menu linking to several items: Home, Model Directory, Past Updates, and the ATK Lounge (more on this later). There's also a pull-down menu that allows you to jump directly to a specific model's content. Below this, the bulk of the page is taken up by big links to the latest additions to the Premium members area. Each of these update links comes with a a large thumbnail preview, a relatively lengthy description, and links to the updates (photoset or movie) as well as the main page of the model involved. Off to the side are small pics of some of the models soon-to-be added to the site and in the middle of the page are the familiar thumbnail ads to the other ATKingdom sites: Natural and Hairy, Exotics, and Galleria (all of which have been reviewed here at QAP).
There are a few ways to access the content at ATK Premium. For one, you can click the Past Updates link and see everything that's been added to the site in chronological order. ATK Premium keeps up the tradition of the other ATKingdom sites by maintaining a very impressive update schedule. It looks like they add four items every day Monday thru Saturday, sometimes 3 photosets and a movie and other times 2 of each. This equates to 24 updates a week, which is awesome. The Past Updates page lists the current month's updates in the "big link" format with thumbnail preview, description, etc. (as on the main page). The previous months (going back to March 2004) are linked down the lefthand side of the page. Although there's no search engine feature (a staple of the other ATKingdom sites I've reviewed), there is a Model Directory here. The Model Directory at Premium looks nicer and contains a much, much smaller number of models (62 to be exact) than the model listings on the other ATKingdom sites . The girls are arranged 4 to a row with very large preview headshots (170 x 220) so you can get an idea of who you want to check out. Once you click a chick that catches your eye, you'll be taken to her main page which contains links to all of the photos and videos (anywhere from 3-20 of them) that girl has appeared in as well as a short bio paragraph at the top of the page. Via links across the top, you can sort the page so it displays only that model's pics or only that model's videos, and if you click the Biography link, you'll be taken to a pretty lengthy Q&A page where the model answers various questions interview-style (the questions range from favorite foods and movies to some more sexual stuff). Clearly, this is a different (and in my opinion, much better) approach to things that you won't find on the other ATKingdom sites. There, quantity of content is stressed over model individuality; here, you get much more detail and focus on a smaller number of girls. I guess it depends on what you're looking for.
Ok, so let's take a look at the pics. There are over 52,000 of them and they're all exclusive to ATK Premium. When you select a photoset from the list, you'll either be taken to a thumbnail gallery or, for some of the sets, a short erotic story as sort of a prelude before you get to the actual pics. At the bottom of each thumbnail gallery page there are Start, Back, Next, and End buttons to make navigation easier as well links to download the entire photoset as a zip file or (something I haven't seen before) to download just that particular page of photos as a zip file. Once you click a pic, you're given a relatively small (but good quality) image (roughly 400 x 600), with a link below it to take the image "full screen". The full-screen versions are enormous, extremely high quality pics weighing in at 768 x 1024 in some sets and a huge 1000 x 1536 (and sometimes even larger) in others. In addition, the full-screen page comes with it's own menu offering a couple of other size options. All told, there are four: the original 400 x 600, a 600 x 800 version, a 700 x 1000 version, and the huge 1000 x 1536 (or larger) full-screen photo. The photography here is all top-notch and looks great. The models as well are all super hot (I guess that's how they achieved the status "Premium") and it states on the site that some of them have appeared on other ATKingdom sites where they became fan favorites and were subsequently brought over to shoot stuff for the Premium members area. All of the girls are young (18 to early 20's), tight-bodied, and the majority of them look pretty natural (i.e. no fake tits, etc.). There's a good mix of blondes and brunettes, some of the babes are European, some are not. For subject matter, there's a good mix of softcore and hardcore content here, running the gamut from very artistic glamour style black and white photos to mmf threesomes including DP action and facial cumshots. There are also solo masturbation sets, girl-girl shoots, and straight-ahead softcore posing done in a variety of outfits from bikinis and lingerie to more casual stuff like jeans, skirts, and blouses as well as costumes (angels, harem girl, Egyptian, Little Red Riding Hood). Fans of outdoor photography will also be pleased to find some beautiful natural locales from fields and meadows to beaches and woods. Overall, a great variety of stuff here to take a look at and a little something for every taste.
ATK Premium also offers up a substantial number of videos in addition to it's photo content. Unfortunately, in probably the only thing I found lacking organization-wise, the videos aren't separated into their own section. This isn't as bad as it potentially could be, mainly because the design of the site is primarily geared toward surfing by model, in which case it's easy to find each girl's videos within her relatively small listing of updates. Anyhow, once you click on a video you'd like to see, you'll be taken to a page with preview thumbnails (usually around 9) for that video. The sample pics all link to the same thing; the full movies here at ATK Premium aren't divided up into separate smaller clips. I was a little surprised at the lack of this typically standard convention (as well as a lack of format choices: all the clips here are MPG's), especially after all of the options (almost to the point of overkill) for the photos. Anyhow, if you're not on a broadband connection, things could get sticky (or actually prevent things from getting sticky, if you know what I mean) as it will take forever for you to download the movies. Actually, even with a broadband connection, you're looking at 5 minutes or more since a lot of the videos are rather large at 100-200MB (these aren't short clips; on average they clock in at around 10 minutes). I would definitely have liked a few more quality options here or at least smaller clips so I could download things faster and be able to pick and choose which parts I wanted to download.
Anyway, the MPG videos that *are* provided look very good quality-wise. They're not quite on par with the extremely high quality photos (you'd need DVD quality stuff to compete there), but they look very nice at 200% and are definitely watchable at full-screen (just a little bit pixelated at that size). As far as subject matter, there's a good mix of material here, much like in the photos. You'll find everything from hardcore content like solo masturbation (with fingers, dildos, and a cucumber), boy-girl fucking, facials, and girl-girl sex to totally softcore material like shaving, foot fetish, interviews with the girls conducted while they're naked, and totally clothed casual stuff like the model car shopping, reading a poem, or playing a recorder (flute). Overall, a very good mix of material here.
The only bonus-type section here is the ATK Lounge. The Lounge is found in the other ATKingdom sites as well and is set up sort of like an e-zine, with articles (on adult literature, health, dating and entertainment), photo spreads, an advice column, letters to the editor, and more. As with a magazine, there is a plethora of ads as well, but overall this whole feature is nicely done and adds a unique and personal touch to the site.
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In my opinion, ATK Premium is a much better site than it's 3 sister sites. Granted, if you're a fan of quite simply an overwhelming amount of content, or if you're looking for specific ethnic niches or fetishes, Galleria, Exotics, or Natural and Hairy may be the way to go, but overall I much prefer Premium's more stream-lined and focused approach. In addition, the bar has clearly been raised here quality-wise and you won't find any sub-par or average pictures. In the other ATKingdom sites, you got the feeling that they were many times buying all of the content they could (regardless of it's quality) simply to fill a particular niche; here, you can tell that a lot of care is being taken to ensure a high level of quality in both photos and videos. The bottom line is, ATK Premium takes all of the good things about ATKingdom sites (i.e. frequent updates, hot models, and a large amount of content), subtracts the negative items (i.e. some sub-par pics and vids, average looking models, and the "quantity over quality" theory), and adds in some unique items all it's own (i.e. model biographies, erotic stories, and more) to create a phenomenal amateur megasite. Highly recommended.
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The images on this page appear courtesy of ATK Premium. Click here for 18 U.S.C. 2257 Documentation.
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