Since Comdex folded here a couple of years ago, they have replaced the Adultdex with something called "Adultcon" which runs at the same time and across the street from the SEMA show, the automotive afterparts show. What is funny is to see the quick migration of girls that are holding hub caps in the SEMA show run in their 5" spiked heels across the street to the Rivera and be in their bikini in time to 'sign' autographs to the schmucks that pay 35.00 per person to see them.
Yes a case can be made that AVN is an adult extention of CES but truthfully AVN wants the 130K locked in audience that looks at digital widgets for 2 hours then rushes over to look at hot porn stars for the other 6. You can bet that a large % of those CES attendees rush home to their computers and google the name of the chick they just saw "in person" maybe join the website or maybe not, maybe buy a video, maybe not. And for the 10-20K whatever the exhibitor spent on their cost for the 3 days of AVN, think how much that money could have bought in google key words or other online advertising to meet the millions surfing the web.
....and if you mean by "in the life" that the people you associate with everyday in real time are also in the business count me in. I have no real life friends that aren't involved in the adult industry.
2006-04-18, 08:31 AM
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