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Adult Video News
Editor-in-chief Dan Miller
Categories trade journal
Frequency Monthly
Publisher Paul Fishbein
Total Circulation
(2006)		 40,000[1]
Year founded 1983
First issue
Country USA
Language English
Website http://www.avn.com
ISSN 0883-7090

Adult Video News (AVN or AVN Magazine) is an American trade journal that covers the adult video industry. A publication's editor in chief is its Primary editor, having final responsibility for the operations and policies A trade journal is a Periodical, Magazine or Publication printed with the intention of Target marketing to a specific Industry or type The United States of America —commonly referred to as the English is a West Germanic language originating in England and is the First language for most people in the United Kingdom, the United States An International Standard Serial Number ( ISSN) is a unique eight-digit number used to identify a print or electronic Periodical publication. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the A trade journal is a Periodical, Magazine or Publication printed with the intention of Target marketing to a specific Industry or type The New York Times notes that AVN is to pornographic films what Billboard is to records. See Billboard (Turkish magazine Billboard is a weekly American Magazine devoted to the Music industry AVN sponsors an annual convention in Las Vegas, Nevada along with an award show for the adult industry modeled after the Oscars. Las Vegas ( Spanish: "The Meadows" is the most populous City in the state of Nevada, the seat of Clark County, and an internationally [2][3]

AVN rates adult films and track news developments in the industry. An AVN issue can feature over 500 movie reviews. [4][5] The magazine is about 80 percent ads and is targeted at adult-video retailers. David Foster Wallace has described AVN articles to be more like infomercials than articles. David Foster Wallace (February 21 1962&ndashSeptember 12 2008 was an American author of novels, Essays and short-stories Infomercials (or informercials are Television commercials that run for one minute or for as long as a typical Television program [1]

Contents

History

Paul Fishbein, Irv Slifkin, and Barry Rosenblatt founded AVN in 1983 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Philadelphia (ˌfɪləˈdɛlfiə Slifkin left in 1984; having become disinterested in reviewing adult movies due to the industry's transition from film to videos. Rosenblatt and Fishbein had a falling out in 1987. Eventually, Fishbein moved the magazine to San Fernando Valley. The San Fernando Valley or The Valley is an urbanized Valley located in the north-western section of the city of Los Angeles California, United States [6]

AVN was widely quoted for various figures about the adult industry and its revenues. [7][8][9] AVN estimated that the sales and rentals of adult videos topped four billion dollars in 2000[7] and 2002[8]. Forbes has called this figure "baseless and wildly inflated". Forbes is an American Publishing and media company Its flagship publication Forbes magazine is published bi-weekly When Forbes asked AVN on how it arrived at this figure, the managing editor responded, "I don't know the exact methodology. . . It's a pie chart. " When asked to separate the figures for sales versus rentals, a standard practice among those who cover the video industry, the editor didn't think those figures were available. Adams Media Research noted that no one tracked the adult video business with any rigor or precision and that the most generous estimate is that sales and rentals combined were no higher than $1. 8 billion. [7] AVN estimated that adult industry revenue in 2005 was 12. 6 billion dollars with 2. 5 billion of that coming from the internet. However, ABC News reported that this figure could not be independently verified. [9]

Notable Alumni

Adult Entertainment Expo

Main article: AVN Adult Entertainment Expo

AVN sponsors an annual convention, the AVN Adult Entertainment Expo (AEE), held each January in Las Vegas. Eli Cross is an adult filmmaker who began his career making short films in Arizona and eventually after moving to Los Angeles in 1993 worked as a director at Roger Corman ’s The AVN Adult Entertainment Expo (AEE is a Trade show held each January in Las Vegas, Nevada, and is sponsored by the Adult Video News Magazine Las Vegas ( Spanish: "The Meadows" is the most populous City in the state of Nevada, the seat of Clark County, and an internationally Nevada. Nevada ( is a state located in the western region of the United States of America. The Expo is the largest pornography industry trade show in the United States. [12]

Award Shows

AVN Adult Movie Awards

Main article: AVN Awards

AVN also hosts an award show for the adult industry modeled after the Oscars. "The Oscar" redirects here for the film see The Oscar (film. [13][14][15] The awards feature over 100 categories and has an attendance of over 3500 people. [16] David Foster Wallace skeptically noted that AVN, in 1997, reviewed over 4000 new release in every category in comparison to the 375 films that the Academy Awards were required to see for the Oscars. "The Oscar" redirects here for the film see The Oscar (film. [1] This number increased to 8000 for the 2008 Awards and Paul Fishbein comments that it is "a very long, horrible process". [17] The New York Times describe the "precise criteria for winning an AVN are not, well, explicit". [18]

Sports columnist Bill Simmons commented that the Awards were "the most secretly captivating telecasts on TV" alongside the National Spelling Bee and Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show. Bill Simmons (born September 1969 is a columnist for Page2 on ESPN The Scripps National Spelling Bee (formerly known as the Scripps Howard National Spelling Bee and commonly referred to simply as the National Spelling Bee) is The Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show is a two-day benched Conformation show that takes place at Madison Square Garden in New York City every year [19] Violet Blue, the sex writer, describes the Awards as "big backslapping event where the same companies and same names win year after year. Violet Blue is an American writer Podcaster, Blogger, editor sex educator and sex columnist . . To think of the "porn Oscars" as a true representation of porn's very best is like having sex with a Jenna Jameson love doll and telling your friends you had sex with the porn star". Jenna Jameson (born Jenna Marie Massoli on April 9 1974 is an American pornographic actress and Entrepreneur who has been called the world's [20] Even Tyla Winn, an award winner, had trouble remembering one of her sex scenes that was nominated. Tyla Wynn (born on October 16, 1982 in Lubbock, Texas) is an American pornographic actress. [18]

GayVN Awards

Main article: GayVN Awards

AVN also sponsors the GAYVN Awards which are presented annually to honor work done in the gay pornography industry. The GAYVN Awards are presented annually to honor work done in the Gay pornography industry Awards for gay adult video were a part of the AVN awards from 1988-1998. In 1999, AVN decided to separately host the GayVN Awards.

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