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| Editor-in-chief | Dan Miller |
|---|---|
| Categories | trade magazine |
| Frequency | Monthly |
| Publisher | Paul Fishbein |
| Founded | 1982 |
| Country | USA |
| Language | English |
| Website | http://www.avn.com |
Adult Video News Magazine (AVN Magazine or AVN) is an American trade magazine that covers the adult video industry. The New York Times notes that AVN is to pornographic films what Billboard is to records. It hosts an award show for the adult industry modeled after the Oscars. AVN also sponsors an annual convention in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Founded by Paul Fishbein in 1982, AVN rates adult films and track news developments in the industry. An AVN issue can feature over 500 movie reviews.
AVN is widely quoted for various figures about the adult industry and its revenues. AVN estimated that the sales and rentals of adult videos topped four billion dollars in 2000 and 2002. Forbes has called this figure "baseless and wildly inflated". When Forbes asked AVN on how it arrived at this figure, the managing editor responded, "I don't know the exact methodology... It's a pie chart." When asked to separate the figures for sales versus rentals, a standard practice among those who cover the video industry, the editor didn't think those figures were available. Adams Media Research notes that no one tracks the adult video business with any rigor or precision and that the most generous estimate is that sales and rentals combined was no higher than $1.8 billion. In 2004, AVN was able to estimate that 800 million was being spent on rentals alone.
Sports columnist Bill Simmons commented that the Adult Video News Awards were "the most secretly captivating telecasts on TV" alongside with the National Spelling Bee and Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show.
References
- Timothy Egan (2000-10-23). "Wall Street Meets Pornography". New York Times. Retrieved 2008-01-02.
- Steve Kroft (2004-09-05). "Porn In The U.S.A." 60 minutes. Retrieved 2008-01-02.
- Frank Rich (2003-07-27). "Finally, Porn Does Prime Time". New York Times. Retrieved 2008-01-02.
- DPA, LOS ANGELES (2003-07-17). "Porn loses seedy image, becomes mainstream in US". Taipei Times. Retrieved 2008-01-02.
- Dan Ackman (2001-05-25). "How Big Is Porn?". Forbes. Retrieved 2008-01-02.
- Bill Keveney (2003-10-16). "Hollywood gets in bed with porn". USA Today. Retrieved 2008-01-02.
- Jennifer Davies and David Washburn (2004-10-18). "San Diego's adult entertainment goes uptown, upscale and online". signonsandiego.com. Retrieved 2008-01-02.
- Bill Simmons (2002-05-31). "Great sports any way you spell it". ESPN. Retrieved 2008-01-02.