That's a positive stand:2 cents:

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.

This is a good thing for TopBucks. We always capitalize on the media that CES draws in.

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Should be plenty of new things on both sides, that's for sure... Maybe some of the late night parties and bar gatherings will have some new topics of conversion happening that isn't normal to our Industry events.

I really hope the organizers of various events in our industry attend some of the seminar and training events at the summit. The level of information, the type of information, and the type of people giving that information is what makes some of the mainstream events so mind blowing over anything I've ever heard on our side of the fence.

While I'm sure both sides have a lot they can take out of these events. I expect it's going to be a lot of adult industry folks getting a slap in the face that everything that is adult is a micro industry compared to what is happening across the pond. Maybe that will be good for us, lots of the information crosses over, that could for sure fire some people up.

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 :Oh crap. 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.

I'm excited. I wish this was how it was 5 years ago.

We hold private gatherings.

Generic shows went out of style in 2007.

Sweet! The amount of mobile deals I did last year, I don't have to worry about PR being there. =)