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Originally Posted by ronaldo
True, but as Peaches said, it's more because of the video side. I don't think they're going out of business, but I could see future Internext shows attendance dwindling to the point that there's no incentive for exhibitors or advertisers.
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I tend to disagree with Peaches and in my mind the statement "they only care about the video side" is urban myth at best...
To illustrate my point:
AVN ONLINE... the magazine and the site. The focus is on the web industry. They have been around for years and consistently improved.
Internext... the show is still the biggest webmaster draw attendance-wise and caters to the greatest variety of web entrepeneurs. Renee I know for a fact is highly concerned with making the shows affordable and profitable to attendees.
Competing shows and trade rags... they all take shots at AVN because it is undeniably the "400 lb gorilla" and they want to pluck the bananas from the same money tree. The ego factor is huge and every time someone feels slighted by AVN and/or Internext then they run off saying "well I am not going to come back and I will start my own show blah, blah, blah..."