A couple of Xbiz award winners of note

[miz_wright]

Originally Posted by rhetorical

Congrats to everyone who won it was well deserved. But its time, I think, that these awards saw beyond mainstream and looked at the huge amounts of porn created that is not a:American and b: horny as fuck and well deserving of awards. At the moment it is only a handful of companies and individuals that are even looked at. Mostly because they participate in the convention game. This is the internet and it is huge. Perhaps it is time to recognize this fact. Much of the porn that is created today is amazing and sells very well. The Japanese, for instance produce amazing work that is as good as, if not better than most of the cookie cutter mainstream porn that xbiz pushes. The British are doing some really profitable and successful product. The whole "amateur" and niche market has been ignored. If these awards are to mean anything, then it is time to think outside the American mainstream box.

Rhet:
I agree - there are fantastical amounts of content out there in other categories that are not recognised. In this particular case, I believe nominations were garnered via GFY and emailed suggestions and voted upon from there. I could well be mistaken, as I rarely spend time on many boards.

I do believe that xBiz made efforts to have those nominations held as openly as possible, but due to the nature of their methodology, if a program's supporters are not active in the channels they pursue, that program will not get the visibility it may well deserve.