XBiz ran a comprehensive article about the recent buying spree of Luxembourg-based Manwin, which is porn’s version of Galactus, Devourer of Worlds.
Today in Porn Valley
Gang-Hangar at the XBiz Awards
From now on I want all my parties to be hangar-based
Gram Is There
AVN & XBiz divide January, profits
I’m not saying that’s bad. I’m saying that is what it is. Neither publication can claim objectivity, but when’s the last time you objectively jerked off?
business
Porn Dad to AVN, XBiz: You’re both pretty
“I’m going to have my Greek boyfriend kill that bitch,” shrieked AVN, hurling the Wicked girls at a table strewn with PussyCash pens and lanyards.
business
Skin care tips from pasty porn stars: By the pool in Vegas
Money is very difficult to find in the adult industry: prominent porn stars are working less and all major studios and publications have been worn down to skeleton staffs. So you’d better use your sunblock.
business
Beating the June Gloom with XBiz in Las Vegas
Will fans, performers, and exhibitors who haven’t been going to Erotica L.A. show up in Vegas for the XFanz Expo instead?
legal
Pink Visual sues tubes, charges Canadians with vag overfishing
Sundown, you better take care, if I find you been uploading pirated content to those tube sites, there
business
XBiz L.A. wrap-up: “The pond gets smaller so the fish get bigger”
Nina Hartley, meanwhile, gave a very-present Evan Stone his Best Actor trophy, and they groped each other for a good minute while I stood by, alone, waiting for my chance to do things to Kane that would make the Kama Sutra curl up and explode.
Gram Is There
Getting Hummers at XBiz L.A.
“Where do you think we’ll be a year from now?” Piccionelli asked the panelists. I really wanted someone to say, “soliciting bus fare,” but no one did.
contest
Call for suggestions: Presenter etiquette at the XBiz Awards
I will be presenting the Best Actress trophy at this year’s XBiz Awards, but I am unsure of how I should comport myself.
business
XBiz to take over February
XBiz has incorporated a much more manageable video module into its Internet-flavored awards and it has one-upped the FAME Awards fan-favorite model by making it easier for performers to pimp themselves.
the horror
Porn Valley signage: Which is real?
Following yesterday’s shocking discovery that AVN had Photoshopped (do I still need to capitalize that?) its logo onto a building owned by someone else for a press announcement, I wondered how many other Porn Valley institutions engaged in sign-anigans. Was crosstown rival XBiz misrepresenting its status at 4929 Wilshire Boulevard? (Like Ladyhawke, the XBiz building [...]
business
Making money at the 2009 XBiz Summer Forum
In the adult world, it is easy to equate “sedate” with “failure,” but the relative calm and low turnout to last week’s XBiz Summer Forum in Las Vegas was merely a reflection of doubtful times for the porn biz. In isolated doses, it might have been any adult convention in boom times; there was nudity, [...]
events
Social networking for narcissists
Today I spoke on a panel about social networking at the XBiz Summer Forum. I thought it would be fun to tweet (I hate using that word; I want to punch myself – but who am I to change the language?) while I was sitting up there. Furthermore, I thought I would not be the [...]
events
Ashley Fires does
Moments ago Ashley Fires won the 2009 Miss XBiz Summer Forum Pageant by dancing whilst twirling flaming batons barefoot. Fires can do everything porn stars can do, but this fire twirling is something she can really fall back on. Several women competed, such as GramPonante.com favorites Joanna Angel (pole dance to AC/DC), Kagney Linn Karter [...]
events
XBiz zeroes in on Vegas next week
I go to Las Vegas several times a year: for the AVN show in January, the pre-Christmas Ornament Sale in March, the Livestock Exhibition in August, and the Slaughtering of Magicians’ Rabbits And Pigeons in November, in which the Strip is shut down and the gutters run with blood. If I were a Hollywood douchebag, [...]
art
Cui Boner or: AVN is like a Rolling Stone
Ain’t it hard to discover that/He ain’t really where it’s at/After he took from you everything he could steal?/How does it feel? – Bob Dylan I got a message from a colleague who happens to work at an adult trade publication. “This is ripe for your site, Gram,” stated the colleague, attaching several meticulously scanned [...]
legal
AVN sends employees, lawsuit to XBiz
AVN yesterday filed suit in Los Angeles Superior Court against rival XBiz, claiming the upstart adult trade publication misappropriated trade secrets and generated unfair competition in its poaching of sales director Sara Sazzman last month. Both outfits have shed employees lately but, aside from ronin porn scribe Tom Hymes, the migration has always been from [...]
events
Benchmarking adult award shows, conferences
A few years ago, the adult video industry’s connection with upstart XBiz was tenuous; Hustler and Vivid did not play ball with AVN’s rival, and only Digital Playground seemed to see the value in advertising with the magazine. But that has changed, and now both AVN and XBiz draw from the same pool of advertisers [...]
Narcissism
Social Network Disease