These photos are from Wednesday, day one of AVN’s 15th Annual Adult Entertainment Expo (AEE); held at the Hard Rock Hotel in Las Vegas, NV. Day one is a B2B event with members of the adult industry from the Internet, video and hard goods being the primary attendees. It was a good time for the media to come in and interview porn stars such as Jesse Jayne and Jessica Drake before the doors open for the fan show which begins Thursday.

AVN’s Adult Novelty Expo (ANE) also started today and included seminars and booths of various toys, oils, pills and other pleasure devices as well as various services such as credit card processing and insurance available for those that own toy stores. ANE will continue through Friday; with AEE culminating Saturday evening with the 30th Annual AVN Awards.

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Red Light Center is hosting the first ever adult entertainment virtual convention and PimpsPromo will be there to cover all the action. This three day event will be held February 24-26, 2012 and will be held in the utherverse. While this is not my first virtual trade show to attend or exhibit at, this is the first one that concentrated on the adult entertainment industry.

PimpsPromo Virtual Convention Booth

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These photos are from Wednesday at the adult entertainment B-to-B event, XBIZ LA. The day began with a mix and meet market, which is the substitute for the days of yesteryear when adult shows had large rooms with dozens of large booths. Now it is more intimate and cost effective to have the smaller set up for an hour or two of booths instead of three days. I guess YNOT can get credit for pioneering them back in San Diego. After the Mix & Meet, we had lunch at Simon LA again, followed by another Speed Networking session.

The panels included an anti-piracy discussion with Allison Vivas of Pink Visual and Doug Lichtman, a UCLA Law Professor who is an expert on patent and copyright law, telecommunications regulation and general legal issues pertaining to technology firms and the Internet. It was enlightening to say the least. The keynote was a discussion between Colin Rowntree and Ron Cadwell, which was very entertaining. The day ended for me with the State of the Industry panel, 3 Minute Showoffs and the AWE cocktail reception. (more…)

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