Are Trade Shows a thing of the past?

[RawAlex]

Hell Pussy, I still have a DMR / Web800 jacket I got at that show, freaking thing is indestructible. Too bad DMR blew up so fast (and cost most of us a ton of money).

Adultdex was exactly a consumer show. In the last couple of years, a webmaster component was added mostly because enough webmasters were in town for it. But on the retail side the show really suffered, as Comdex died off, Adultdex did as well. Effectively, the AEE show does the same thing in January, sucking up to a show full of geeks

Toby, I think the problem is that the adult industry isn't aligned to shows. There are no product cycles, there is no real promotion anymore (just raise the payouts, woohoo!). Also, the video porn people don't want to deal with online people still to this day, treating us as 9th class citizens and pretty much peeing on everything we do. Some of them think that the web people have killed the porn business completely (and they wouldn't be wrong). So we can't even get the large part of the porn world to be part of a show.

I thnk that AVN and XBIZ are both already crying. It isn't clear that there is a real replacement that would bring back ROI for online companies.