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Originally Posted by kristin
InterNEXT's attendance has been low the last few years, when they did CES, AEE and InterNEXT together, at the time it was bigger and they were all much larger shows.
I think now more than ever the internet side is doing more biz with the studios and I think it can be really beneficial for studios in terms of licensing, broadcasting, still some of the VOD market, etc. With retailers dying, the studios have to find other ops.
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That year was a hard pill to swallow because at the time it was still largely a booth / show floor driven event. The CES show floor had all the newest bells and whistles, AEE had all the adult talent, and Internext... well, there were scantily clad flier girls
. The evening events went well, but the days were desolate. Everyone was somewhere else. It was a ghost town.
I'm not rehashing this to take a piss on AVN, I really want to see these shows make a comeback. I'm just throwing it out there as a reminder. I think the state of the industry and the economy may draw more people than in the time prior to B2B functions and away from eye candy, but we should do well to remember the eye candy at the other shows are pretty powerful draws when you've probably got things happening like Jesse Jane and Bree Olson having a pillow fight in one hall and 3D TVs w/o the glasses in another.