Adult Video News
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| description | Industry magazine for the sex industry |
| First edition | 1983 |
| Frequency of publication | per month |
| Sold edition | 40,000 copies |
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| Editor-in-chief | Sharan Street |
| editor | Theo Sapoutzis |
| Web link | www.avn.com |
| ISSN (print) | 0883-7090 |
Adult Video News (also known by the abbreviations AVN or AVN Magazine ) is an American industry magazine that relates to the porn market . The New York Times compares the magazine's importance to the porn market with that of Billboard to the record market. AVN is the host of the AVN Adult Entertainment Expo , an adult entertainment fair in Las Vegas , Nevada , at which the AVN Awards are also presented in an Academy Awards- style ceremony. Another award is the GayVN Award , a prize given to the gay porn industry.
The Adult Video News rate porn films and report on new developments in the industry. There can be reviews of up to 500 titles in a single issue of AVN. The magazine consists of 80% advertising and is primarily aimed at retail. The quality of the magazine is often rated as not very good. David Foster Wallace of the New York Times noted that the reports were more reminiscent of advertisements.
history
Paul Fishbein, Irv Slifkin and Barry Rosenblatt founded AVN in 1983 in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania . Slifkin left the paper in 1984 after losing interest in the porn market due to its development from pornographic feature films to video scenes. Rosenblatt and Fishbein followed him in 1987. Before that, the magazine moved to San Fernando Valley , where it is still based today. In 2010 Fishbein sold the company.
The AVN are often cited for developments in the pornographic area, although not all information appears credible. For example, the magazine claimed that the sales and rentals of pornographic films exceeded $ 4 billion in 2000 and 2004. The Forbes Magazine , however called these figures exaggerated and without substance. Adams Media Research indicated that even generous estimates would only come to $ 1.8 billion. AVN's 2005 numbers were even higher, suggesting revenues of $ 12.5 billion, of which $ 2.5 billion would come from the Internet. ABC News said the numbers could not be verified by independent sources.
AVN Europe
A European edition of the magazine appeared from October 2007. The editorial office was in Budapest , Hungary . The magazine was published for two years. The content was mainly created by the editor Lydia Gall and was comparable to the US edition. The last issue was published in June 2009.
Adult Entertainment Expo
AVN hosts the AVN Adult Entertainment Expo (AEE), held every January in Las Vegas. It is the largest porn fair in the United States.
AVN Online
AVN also produces another magazine, AVN Online, which is more oriented towards the online market. The magazine appears both as a print and an online edition.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ A b David Foster Wallace: First Chapter - 'Consider the Lobster' . New York Times . March 12, 2006. Retrieved January 2, 2008.
- ↑ a b Nick Wingfield: Silicon and Silicone Split, as CES and Adult Entertainment Expo Part Ways . In: The New York Times , January 9, 2012. Retrieved January 10, 2012.
- ↑ Timothy Egan: EROTICA INC. - A special report .; Technology Sent Wall Street Into Market for Pornography . New York Times . October 23, 2000. Retrieved June 29, 2012.
- ↑ Steve Kroft: Porn In The USA . 60 minutes . September 5, 2004. Archived from the original on January 3, 2008. Retrieved January 2, 2008.
- ↑ Frank Rich: Finally, Porn Does Prime Time . New York Times . July 27, 2003. Retrieved January 2, 2008.
- ↑ DPA, Los Angeles: Porn loses seedy image, becomes mainstream in US . Taipei Times . July 17, 2003. Retrieved January 2, 2008.
- ↑ Anthony Layser: Porn Supremecy . Philadelphia Weekly . January 9, 2008. Archived from the original on January 12, 2008. Retrieved January 18, 2008.
- ↑ a b c Dan Ackman: How Big Is Porn? . Forbes Magazine . May 25, 2001. Archived from the original on December 13, 2007. Retrieved January 2, 2008.
- ↑ a b Bill Keveney: Hollywood gets in bed with porn . USA Today . October 16, 2003. Retrieved January 2, 2008.
- ↑ a b Jonathan Silverstein: Is Porn a Growing or Shrinking Business? . ABC News . January 19, 2006. Retrieved January 2, 2008.
- ↑ Stephen Clark: Ex-stripper evangelizes to sex industry . The Seattle Times . April 1, 2006. Archived from the original on December 9, 2007. Retrieved January 4, 2008.